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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Newt's got a song Will Washington buy his brand of snake oil?	Miles Grant	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
One of the all-time great episodes of The Simpsons is 'Marge vs. the Monorail,' written by Conan O'Brien. The EPA fines Mr. Burns for dumping nuclear waste, leading to an unexpected cash windfall for Springfield. Marge suggests spending the money to repair the town's tattered infrastructure. But just as her proposal is about to pass, a fast-talking charlatan named Lyle Lanley arrives and sells the ever-gullible people of Springfield on a plan to build a monorail, cli ...
Topics: oil and gas drilling, Newt Gingrich, energy, politics, oil (all these topics)

Nothing Newt under the sun Gingrich's 'grassroots' drilling campaign is funded by Big Oil, report says	Kate Sheppard	15 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Several corrections have been made to the original post to fix inaccuracies in the report from Alaska Wilderness League. 'Green conservative' Newt Gingrich is scheduled to deliver his 'Drill here, drill now, pay less' petition to Congress today. According to his American Solutions website, more than 1.3 million people have signed the petition. But who's funding the campaign that Gingrich is touting as a grassroots, bipartisan effort? Turns out a large portio ...*
Topics: Big Oil, Muckraker, news, Newt Gingrich, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Notable quotable Newt thinking on energy arousal (and domestic oil production)	Sara Barz	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'... when the American people are aroused, they can in fact coerce the Congress ...' -- Newt Gingrich on 'Energy Independence Day
Topics: energy, Newt Gingrich, oil, quotables, video (all these topics)

Drill here, drill now, pay less Gingrich mounts campaign to support domestic oil drilling	David Roberts	28 May 2008	Gristmill
"Green conservative" and We campaign spokesman Newt Gingrich is mounting a new campaign: "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less." His promise is that (blocking Lieberman-Warner and) opening up drilling off the coasts, in the Gulf of Mexico, in northern Alaska, and in the Rockies (for oil shale) would lower gas prices. Now, for one thing that's just a lie. It's false. According to the EIA, the U.S. has about 21 billion gallons in proven oil reserves ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, lying liars, messaging, Newt Gingrich, oil (all these topics)

Nancy + Newt sittin' on a couch ... Pelosi and Gingrich unite for climate protection	Sarah van Schagen	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
... T-A-L-K-I-N-G about climate change in a new TV spot for the me We Can Solve It campaign. Check it out:
Topics: climate, environmental movement, Nancy Pelosi, Newt Gingrich, politics, TV (all these topics)

Dissecting Newt A review of Gingrich's new book on the environment	Alex Roth	29 Nov 2007	Grist Feature
Newt and Knut. Photo: Callista Gingrich, Gingrich Productions Newt Gingrich says he feels a special kinship with a young polar bear named Knut, who was rescued from death last year by officials at the Berlin Zoo. Gingrich has visited Knut, and he's been talking about the bear as he promotes his new book, A Contract With the Earth. But is Gingrich's cuddly new environmental image fitting? Environmenta ...
Topics: books, Newt Gingrich, politics (all these topics)

Technology alone won't alleviate climate change NYT's Andy Revkin and E. O. Wilson get suckered by Newt Gingrich's phony techno-optimism	Joseph Romm	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Newt Gingrich is an anti-environmentalist who spreads disinformation and has done more than any politician in the last two decades to thwart a sensible climate policy that includes a major clean technology component, as I have explained. Absent serious regulations, no technology-only strategy can possibly avoid catastrophic global warming (as we should have learned in the 1990s). Some well-meaning people, like The New York Times' first-rate climate reporter Andy ...
Topics: books, climate, energy, Newt Gingrich, politics, tech (all these topics)

Don't buy Gingrich's view of environmentalism, or his new book Anti-environment, anti-technology Gingrich tries to rewrite history	Joseph Romm	14 Nov 2007	Gristmill
If you look up the word 'Orwellian' on Wikipedia -- 'An attitude and a policy of control by propaganda, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past' -- there should be a picture of Newt Gingrich's new book, A Contract with the Earth. Instead of wasting time reading a whole book of disinformation, you can just read this interview in Salon, 'Give Newt a chance' -- it is definitely all the Newt that is fit to print. To cut to the chase, readers of ...
Topics: politics, climate, energy, books, Newt Gingrich (all these topics)

Newt? Seriously? On Gingrich's new conservative environmentalism	David Roberts	31 Oct 2007	Gristmill
A few days ago I got a review copy of Newt Gingrich's new book, A Contract with the Earth. We've got somebody else reviewing it, so I don't plan to read it. I do, however, want to make two observations, one on policy, one on politics. On policy: Gingrich's shtick is that leftists took over the environmental movement and have made it synonymous with taxation, regulation, and litigation. That alienated conservatives, who thereafter got demonized as enemies of the enviro ...
Topics: books, environmental movement, Newt Gingrich, politics (all these topics)

Ignoring science: Not just for Republicans anymore! Michigan gov. follows Gingrich's example, kills science advisory board	JMG	26 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Newt Gingrich, claiming a mandate to make government smaller, actually managed to abolish only two offices: the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The OTA was a widely praised, nonpartisan board that helped Congress understand and deal with technical issues -- exactly the kind of office you don't need if you get your understanding of biology from Genesis, your thoughts on telecommunications from K Street, and your opin ...
Topics: legislation, Michigan, Newt Gingrich, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Newt Gingrich's 'green conservatism' It's not an alternative, it's a subset	David Roberts	10 May 2007	Gristmill
Newt Gingrich has a new book out called A Contract with the Earth, which purports to outline a "green conservatism." For a summary, you can check out this brief op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I approached it with an open mind -- eagerly, even. There's nothing I would like more than for a vibrant green conservatism to join the debate over the best way to accomplish green goals. That would be an enormous step forward from the current situation. ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, environmental movement, messaging, Newt Gingrich, politics (all these topics)

A Newt paradigm Gingrich and Kerry face off on climate, except they don't really face off all that much	Kate Sheppard	10 Apr 2007	Gristmill
John Kerry and Newt Gingrich squared off on climate change this morning. The result? Gingrich committed to the statement that something needs to be done and distanced himself from partisan brethren like Inhofe. He also dropped a line about a need for some 'green conservatism.' The transcript: KERRY: I'm excited to hear you talk about the urgency -- I really am. And given that -- albeit you still sort of have a different approach -- what would you say to Sen. Inhof ...
Topics: climate, politics, Newt Gingrich (all these topics)

Newt Gingrich's take on adaptation He thinks the poor people in New Orleans didn't do enough of it	David Roberts	04 Mar 2007	Gristmill
How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane. Via Bill Scher.
Topics: Newt Gingrich (all these topics)

Newt and energy	David Roberts	13 Jul 2006	Gristmill
Newt Gingrich is likely going to run for president in 2008. I hope and pray he wins the Republican nomination, as his defeat in the general would be all but a certainty, but it strikes me as unlikely. Anyway, he describes his proposed energy policy on this page, and it includes a rather baffling misunderstanding that seems common in conservative circles: The Bush administration's investment in developing hydrogen energy resources may be the biggest breakthrough of ...
Topics: Newt Gingrich (all these topics)

Newt Rockme		30 Apr 2001	Daily Grist
Read more about: Newt Gingrich Newt Rockme The environment "has been the most obvious public relations failure" of the Bush administration so far, but the issue offers President Bush one of his best opportunities to truly change the country, writes former Speaker of the U.S. House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) in the New York Times. Bush could chose to "create the most conservative regulatory policies the current political system could tolerate" and "grudgingly give the left tho ...
Topics: Newt Gingrich (all these topics)

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