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Gauge Match Push to raise fuel-economy standards gaining new support	Amanda Griscom Little	11 May 2006	Muckraker
Cringe as we might over record-high gasoline prices, they could be the best thing to happen to automobile fuel economy since the Arab oil embargo. Nowhere to go but up. The soaring cost of oil in recent weeks has sent Washington lawmakers into an election-year frenzy. Some of their proposals -- like one from Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to offer Americans $100 checks to defray ...
Topics: Congress, consumerism, Ed Markey, fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, oil, politics (all these topics)

Chafee Klatch Green groups endorse Republican Lincoln Chafee; activists cry foul	Amanda Griscom Little	27 Apr 2006	Muckraker
The reelection campaign of Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee, widely considered one of the most vulnerable Republicans in Congress this year, has prompted a verbal blitzkrieg from progressive activists -- not aimed at the candidate, but at the Sierra Club and League of Conservation Voters, two green groups that have endorsed him. "This may very well be the most moronic mo ...
Topics: elections, League of Conservation Voters, Muckraker, politics, Rhode Island, Sierra Club, state politics (all these topics)

Heating Bills Spring brings a new crop of climate bills in Congress	Amanda Griscom Little	21 Apr 2006	Muckraker
A small crop of new climate bills is sprouting up in Congress, and none too soon. Grow, little seedling, grow. Photo: iStockphoto. Earlier this month, a number of influential energy execs called on Congress to regulate industrial greenhouse-gas emissions. And earlier this week, the EPA quietly released dismal new figures showing that U.S. emissions are steadily rising. The new bills are ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Air Strike EPA plan would give political officials more say over air-quality standards	Amanda Griscom Little	14 Apr 2006	Muckraker
Who should decide what level of air pollution is safe -- scientists or political appointees? Plume and doom. Photo: iStockphoto. A counterintuitive answer came from top officials at the U.S. EPA last week. Bill Wehrum and George Gray, EPA's highest-ranking air and science officials, respectively, issued recommendations that some enviros and agency staffers fear could curtai ...
Topics: air pollution, John Dingell, Muckraker, ozone, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

Cap of Good Hope Biggest energy companies in U.S. call for caps on carbon emissions	Amanda Griscom Little	06 Apr 2006	Muckraker
Tuesday saw a tectonic shift in the climate-change debate during an all-day Senate conference on global-warming policy. A group of high-powered energy and utility executives for the first time issued this directive to Washington: Bring on the carbon caps! The Energy and Natural Resources Committee heard statements from leaders representing eight big energy companies, inc ...
Topics: business, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Better Escalade Than Never Bush admin unveils meek new fuel-economy standards for light trucks	Amanda Griscom Little	30 Mar 2006	Muckraker
The Bush administration yesterday raised fuel-economy standards for SUVs, minivans, and many pickup trucks -- the most significant boost to efficiency requirements for the big vehicles in three decades. Exempt no more. Photo: iStockphoto. Of course, as enviros have been quick to point out, that's not saying much. These final CAFE (corporate average fuel economy ...
Topics: fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Ag, You're It Agriculture interests push ambitious renewable-energy goal	Amanda Griscom Little	24 Mar 2006	Muckraker
A few more strange bedfellows have recently been coaxed into the sack with the enviros, hawks, and labor advocates pushing for a smarter U.S. energy strategy. The newbies include growers of corn, soy, wheat, trees, and even dairy cows, all of which could play a role in cultivating homegrown energy sources. Farmers have gotten wind of a new idea. Photo: NREL. Earlier this month, some 70 ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, energy, Muckraker, renewable energy (all these topics)

Beyond the Gale Kempthorne leads list of possible replacements for Norton at Interior	Amanda Griscom Little	15 Mar 2006	Muckraker
The rumor mill is churning fast as Interior Secretary Gale Norton prepares to bid adieu to the Bush administration, and two names on the short list of possible replacements are leading the pack: for an outside-the-Beltway pick, Dirk Kempthorne, Republican governor of Idaho; for an inside-the-agency pick, Lynn Scarlett, currently Norton's No. 2, who will likely run the depart ...
Topics: Department of Interior, Idaho, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Old Big Brother Had a Farm USDA ID-tag plan for farm animals has some small-scale farmers unhappy	Amanda Griscom Little	10 Mar 2006	Muckraker
If only Orwell could get a load of this. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is promoting a system that would have farm-animal owners and livestock handlers attach microchips or other ID tags to their furry and feathered charges so they could be monitored throughout their lifetimes by a centralized computer network. The National Animal Identification System, ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, Muckraker (all these topics)

Offshore and Running Congress and Bush admin push hard to open offshore areas to drilling	Amanda Griscom Little	03 Mar 2006	Muckraker
Offshore drilling is the new ANWR. With the fight to pry open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge having stalled out (at least for the time being), the oil and gas industry and its cronies in Congress are now focused on parts of the outer continental shelf (OCS) that have been off-limits to drilling for nearly 25 years. Escalating energy prices and the ever-louder dr ...
Topics: Congress, Muckraker, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Corn at the Right Time Ethanol is suddenly all the rage in D.C. and Detroit	Amanda Griscom Little	24 Feb 2006	Muckraker
It's as befuddling to see the "Live Green, Go Yellow" slogan splashed across the General Motors ads running throughout the Olympics as it was to hear the term "switchgrass" uttered by President Bush in his State of the Union speech last month. Here we have GM and Dubya, two of the world's most entrenched and heavy-hitting advocates of fossil-fuel consumption, sudde ...
Topics: business, energy, ethanol, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Performance Anxiety EPA program offers carrots to polluters and takes away sticks, enviros say	Amanda Griscom Little	03 Feb 2006	Muckraker
A U.S. EPA program that's supposed to give recognition and flexibility to companies that are good environmental citizens may in fact be giving a free pass to some firms that are heavy polluters and even lawbreakers, according to a coalition of environmentalists. Come and get it! Photo: Clipart. The agency's voluntary Performance Track program -- whose participants i ...
Topics: business, Muckraker, US EPA (all these topics)

Mass Backward Mass. lawmakers pushing to join climate pact, despite Romney's objections	Amanda Griscom Little	26 Jan 2006	Muckraker
A handful of Massachusetts legislators are maneuvering to get their state into the most ambitious U.S. effort yet to fight global warming, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, launched in late December. If they succeed, it'll be a smarting wallop for Gov. Mitt Romney (R), who is widely expected to run for a spot on the GOP's 2008 presidential ticket. The pact, com ...
Topics: climate, Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

The Wind and the Willful RFK Jr. and other prominent enviros face off over Cape Cod wind farm	Amanda Griscom Little	12 Jan 2006	Muckraker
A long-simmering disagreement within the environmental community over a plan to build a massive wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., is now boiling over into a highly public quarrel. The future of Nantucket Sound? Photo: NREL. The four-year-old battle started heating up last summer when Greenpeace USA staged a demonstration against well-known eco-activist Robe ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, Muckraker, politics, wind power (all these topics)

Get Richard or Die Tryin' Enviros plot to beat Pombo in November	Amanda Griscom Little	06 Jan 2006	Muckraker
Just a week into this election year and already environmental strategists are up to their elbows in plots to snatch Congress from the grip of anti-environment GOP leaders and turn it over to a conservation-minded majority. Leaders of green groups including the Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife are hatching plans to help political allies who face tough battles this coming November, includ ...
Topics: California, elections, local politics, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Coal Reversal Climate campaigners warm to 'advanced coal' and sequestration, despite Bush backing	Amanda Griscom Little	16 Dec 2005	Muckraker
Climate campaigners warm to "advanced coal" and sequestration, despite Bush backing By Amanda Griscom Little 16 Dec 2005 Bush administration officials tried their darnedest to derail the international climate-change negotiations that wrapped up in Montreal last week. But in the midst of their bombastic no-no-no-ing, they did offer up one constructive idea -- a $950 million partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy and industry leaders to build FutureGen, a "p ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, Department of Energy, energy, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Stock Options Bipartisan plan aims to revamp U.S. fisheries law	Amanda Griscom Little	13 Dec 2005	Muckraker
Congress is plotting its first revamp of fisheries law in nearly a decade -- and it's about time. Every boat counts. Photo: iStockphoto. Scores of fish stocks are dwindling in U.S. waters (as they are around the world), and only one of the eight federal fishing zones in the United States is widely considered to be managed sustainably. This year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratio ...
Topics: aquaculture, Congress, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

What Else Is on the Menu? With a CAFE boost looking out of reach, enviros check out other options	Amanda Griscom Little	01 Dec 2005	Muckraker
Is CAFE kaput? Since 1975, CAFE -- or corporate average fuel economy -- standards have stood as America's defining energy-efficiency strategy. Yet, despite much wailing and gnashing of teeth by activists and a handful of politicians, the standards for passenger cars haven't been raised since 1985 -- they still call for automakers' car fleets to get an average ...
Topics: fuel efficiency, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

School of Barack Obama and a bipartisan crew of colleagues unveil eco-friendly bills on energy	Amanda Griscom Little	22 Nov 2005	Muckraker
Caterwauling over the Iraq War last week brought Congress to a rancorous new low, drowning out calls from both sides of the aisle for a clean and sane energy future. A handful of senators and reps unveiled proposals pressing for the Bush administration and automakers to shrink America's outsized energy demands and tackle the climate crisis. They got little to no ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Congress, energy, Jay Inslee, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

What's Yours Is Mine Mining-law revamp could put millions of public acres up for sale	Amanda Griscom Little	17 Nov 2005	Muckraker
Greens beamed and GOP leaders bristled last week after language paving the way for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on the Outer Continental Shelf was stricken from the House budget reconciliation bill. But many Democrats and enviros are now sounding the alarm over another provision in the bill, one that's stirred up far less of a public ruckus but is ...
Topics: legislation, mining, Muckraker, politics, public lands (all these topics)

Powering Up for 2006 -- and Beyond Hillary Clinton joins the pack in calling for greener energy policy	Amanda Griscom Little	08 Nov 2005	Muckraker
Hillary Clinton has joined a growing claque of both Democrats and Republicans swigging from the cup of clean-energy Kool-Aid as they gear up for the 2006 congressional elections. In the past two months, the New York senator has popped up at a major Arctic Refuge rally, a high-profile global-warming conference, and a clean-technology investor symposium to mak ...
Topics: climate, energy, Hillary Clinton, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

The Sum of Alito Fears Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito has enviros worried	Amanda Griscom Little	01 Nov 2005	Muckraker
Samuel Alito, to the right of President Bush (ahem). Photo: Paul Morse/The White House. Enviro advocates in D.C. have spent the last 24 hours digging through Samuel Alito's extensive paper trail for clues as to how he might vote on environmental cases were he confirmed as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. A staunchly conservative judge who's served on the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. ...
Topics: Department of Justice, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Raiders of the Lost Arctic Oil drills getting closer than ever to the Arctic Refuge	Amanda Griscom Little	20 Oct 2005	Muckraker
The future of the Arctic Refuge? "The threat to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has never been greater than it is today," according to Brian Moore, legislative director for the Alaska Wilderness League. And, though the battle over the refuge has a Groundhog Day quality to it -- haven't we heard this same alarm sounding before? -- this time advocates on both sides ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, Congress, energy, legislation, Muckraker, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Refiner Madness Senate's stab at energy legislation may be more moderate than House bill	Amanda Griscom Little	13 Oct 2005	Muckraker
A refinery at Anacortes, Wash. "Shame, shame, shame, shame!" That's the furious chant that erupted from the Democratic section of the House of Representatives last Friday after Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) managed to eke out a victory for his Gasoline for America's Security (GAS) Act, which would loosen environmental laws and boost industry incentives to accele ...
Topics: Congress, energy, James Inhofe, legislation, Muckraker, oil, politics (all these topics)

Speak Now, or Forever Hold Your Species Enviros anxious as Senate gears up to reform Endangered Species Act	Amanda Griscom Little	07 Oct 2005	Muckraker
There's been much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the environmental community since Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) pushed his overhaul of the Endangered Species Act through the House of Representatives last week. All eyes are now on the Senate to see whether Pombo's bill -- described as "so toxic it's radioactive" by Jamie Rappaport Clark, wh ...
Topics: endangered species, legislation, Muckraker, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

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