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What Juneau About That? Alaska oil-tax bribery scandal widens, may include members of Congress		12 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:42 PM on 12 Nov 2007 For the last year or so, ugly truths about Alaskan politics have been oozing into the limelight as state and federal officials unravel a scandal involving cash bribes, an oil tax, bowling scores, and sleeping pills. Yes, you heard us right: an oil tax! The founder of an oil-field services company pled guilty this spring to bribery and conspiracy; he's drug several stat ...
Topics: Alaska, Big Oil, energy, insanity, news, politics, state politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Ted Stevens, climatologist Alaskan senator invents new theory of global warming	Kit Stolz	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Ted Stevens, the Republican senator whose vacation home was recently raided by the FBI, and who made over $800,000 from a shady real estate deal last year, has come up with a brand-new theory of global warming. He told a NBC reporter in Alaska: We're at the end of a long, long term of warming, 700 to 900 years of increased temperature, a very slow increase. We think we're close to the end of that. If we're close to the end of that, that means that we'll s ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change skepticism, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

The Low Carbon Economy Act of 2007 It's weak	Joseph Romm	13 Jul 2007	Gristmill
I really don't think we have time to waste on safety valves. That said, the new bill by Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) is worth understanding because it is garnering a lot of support -- at a cost: But to secure labor and corporate support, the measure also places a limit on the price industry would have to pay for such permits. And to win the endorsement of Alaska's two Republican senators, the bill contains billions of dollars in new mon ...
Topics: climate, legislation, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Hulk make dirty hippies go away! Alaska's Ted Stevens gets desperate for ANWR	David Roberts	19 Jan 2007	Gristmill
A while back, I noted with some bafflement that Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) of all people was proposing a boost in CAFE standards. Now his fellow Senator is hopping on board the green train too: [Alaska Sen. Lisa] Murkowski on Tuesday endorsed Stevens' bill and introduced a companion measure to create tax credits for alternative energy sources and expand and extend those offered on hybrid vehicles. Murkowski's bill also would launch a study for requiring more ef ...
Topics: Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Even Stevens? With new energy-focused bills, Stevens delights enviros and Obama disappoints	Amanda Griscom Little	12 Jan 2007	Muckraker
Among the barrage of energy-related bills already unleashed by the 110th Congress, one of the most progressive comes not from the newly empowered Democrats, but from Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, a zealous proponent of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Just as peculiar, one of the bills that most rankles environmentalists comes from Democratic ...
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, legislation, Muckraker, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Stevens, CAFE, and whaaa ...? We are down the rabbit hole	David Roberts	08 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Holy snot! Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens (yes, that Ted Stevens) is sponsoring a bill to increase CAFE standards -- the very standards he voted to eliminate in 2002. This is Stevens we're talking about, so an ulterior motive is a mathematical certainty. I suspect he's making deals or at least trolling for good will to build support for drilling in the Arctic Refuge. But still. These are strange, strange days we live in. (via The Plank)
Topics: Ted Stevens (all these topics)

McGavick slips on Alaskan oil Shady oil funds traced to Washington senate candidate	Kate Sheppard	07 Sep 2006	Gristmill
The FBI raided the offices of six Alaskan legislators last week, looking for evidence of illegal dealings with the oil firm VECO. The investigation has prompted beneficiaries further south to quickly stash evidence of their own shady dealings, including Washington State Republican Senate candidate Mike McGavick.McGavick returned $14,000 in donations from VECO executives the day following the raid, his campaign announced Tuesday. Alaskan oil tycoons began supporting McG ...
Topics: Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Don't Hook Now Senate passes bill to strengthen fisheries oversight		21 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Don't Hook Now Senate passes bill to strengthen fisheries oversight The Senate passed a bill this week that would ramp up fisheries oversight, require annual catch limits, develop a uniform environmental review for fisheries management plans, and boost the role of scientific advisory committees. The legislation, passed unanimously, renews and improves the 30-year-old Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Bil ...
Topics: news, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Wind farm follies	David Roberts	11 May 2006	Gristmill
So, it seems they're going to build the nation's largest wind farm off the coast of Padre Island in Texas. Environmentalists are up in arms about ... wait for it ... the birds. Oy. This bit from Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson is amusing: "Those who are concerned about view sheds shouldn't have a problem," he said. "There's nobody there to look at it." Nice bank shot! Speaking of view sheds and wind farms, I confess I haven't been ...
Topics: energy, renewable energy, Ted Stevens, Texas, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Sen. Ted Stevens: Can this hurt ever heal?	David Roberts	11 Jan 2006	Gristmill
I wrote a little while back on the tantrum thrown by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) when his fellow Senators refused to let him attach Arctic Refuge drilling to the defense appropriations bill. Well, he's still whining: As the Arctic drilling went down to defeat, Stevens said "goodbye" to the Senate, a remark interpreted by some as a farewell. At the press conference, Stevens said that interpretation was wrong. "I'm here, I'm goi ...
Topics: Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Sen. Ted Stevens: Crybaby	David Roberts	22 Dec 2005	Gristmill
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has spent the last week or so -- nay, the last 25 years -- attempting to circumvent the clearly and repeatedly expressed preferences of a majority of U.S. citizens by allowing oil drilling to take place in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The latest attempt involved attaching drilling to the defense appropriations bill, in effect holding military funding hostage in the middle of an armed conflict. We have perhaps become num ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Stevens and the defense bill	David Roberts	19 Dec 2005	Gristmill
Update [2005-12-19 14:47:12 by David Roberts]: Oops, I forgot the obvious: To try to stop this thing, please write your Senators. As forecast last week, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) managed to get Arctic Refuge drilling attached to the defense spending bill. He couldn't wrangle it into the budget reconciliation bill, so this is his last-ditch effort. He has said: Katrina will be on this [defense] bill. That's what makes the defense bill a little bit a ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, Big Oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Ted Stevens, wilderness (all these topics)

Drill Sergeant Stevens moves to hook Arctic Refuge drilling to military spending		16 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Drill Sergeant Stevens moves to hook Arctic Refuge drilling to military spending Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is getting downright desperate; it seems he'll go to any lengths to get oil drills into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. His latest plan has him attaching an Arctic-drilling provision to a popular military spending bill, hoping that lawmakers won't risk the stigma of appearing to vote against the troops. Ind ...
Topics: Arctic, news, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Arctic Refuge drilling to be attached to defense appropriations bill	David Roberts	15 Dec 2005	Gristmill
Oh crap. From Congressional Quarterly: Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Ted Stevens said Thursday that House and Senate appropriators have agreed to attach drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to the Defense bill in conference, though it is unclear if he can muster the 60 votes needed to end a filbuster on the legislation that the move would provoke. 'We've agreed to put ANWR on it so we'll just have to wait and s ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, dumbassery, legislation, oil and gas drilling, politics, Ted Stevens, US Senate (all these topics)

Stevens	David Roberts	15 Dec 2005	Gristmill
Yesterday I posted some of an article from Congressional Quarterly about the mad rush by some Congressfolk -- particularly Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) -- to get Arctic Refuge drilling passed this year. They sense that this is their last chance. I really encourage you to go read it if you haven't already. It's quite eye-opening. Stevens is aiming to put Gulf hurricane relief and refuge drilling together in the same bill (either the budget bill or the defense appro ...
Topics: Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Stevens rumor	David Roberts	12 Dec 2005	Gristmill
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is not Jon Stewart's favorite person. Last week on The Daily Show's he did a memorable segment called "Who the Fk is Ted Stevens?" (Video here.) Why is that? Well, consider the following. He and his fellow drilling monomaniacs in Congress have inflated the (already-inflated [PDF]) projected revenue from Arctic Refuge drilling to $5 billion, though the Congressional Budget Office has not yet changed its official scoring. ...**
Topics: Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Leave Us in Our Time of Greed Oil execs defend profits, drink all the beer, leave the place trashed		10 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Leave Us in Our Time of Greed Oil execs defend profits, drink all the beer, leave the place trashed The nation was treated to an exquisite piece of Kabuki theater yesterday, as Big Oil executives trudged to Congress to justify their record profits at a time when pricey gasoline and the looming threat of sky-high home-heating costs have Americans up in arms. The Republican leadership decided to give the ...
Topics: business, energy, news, oil, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

The Mod Squad GOP moderates derail drilling plans for Arctic Refuge and offshore areas		10 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
The Mod Squad GOP moderates derail drilling plans for Arctic Refuge and offshore areas Opponents of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge got some shocking good news last night: 25 moderate House Republicans, led by Rep. Charles Bass (R-N.H.), defied pressure from the GOP leadership and vowed to oppose a $54 billion, filibuster-proof budget bill unless provisions allowing drilling in the refuge and in offshor ...
Topics: Arctic, news, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Crude Awakening An open letter to Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska	Terry Tempest Williams	18 Mar 2005	Soapbox
Dear Sen. Stevens, This week you got your wish: a 51 to 49 vote against the Cantwell amendment and in favor of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Caribou in the Arctic Refuge. Photo: Ken Whitten, Wilderness Society. The crude minds have spoken. Finally. You told your colleagues and anyone else who would listen that you have been clinically depressed for 24 years -- the same 24 y ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, energy, mining and drilling, oil, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Because he said so	David Roberts	18 Nov 2004	Gristmill
So, this month a panel of 300 scientists put out a report saying that global warming is most definitely underway, and that 'human influences, resulting primarily from increased emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, have now become the dominant factor.' But stop the presses! U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (R-Ala.) says the scientists are wrong. Not that he's read the report.Scientists who helped put together the report briefed members of the U.S. Senate Com ...
Topics: Ted Stevens (all these topics)

He's Crafty, He Gets Around Anti-Environmental Riders Popping Up on Spending Bills		10 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
He's Crafty, He Gets Around Anti-Environmental Riders Popping Up on Spending Bills With a raft of must-pass spending bills making their way through Congress this month, a handful of crafty lawmakers are tacking on unrelated anti-environmental provisions, or "riders," in hopes of circumventing the usual legislative process. Perhaps the craftiest of all is Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), head of the powerful Senate Appropriations ...
Topics: politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Fishy Business		15 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Fishy Business For the second time this year, congressional Republicans have used behind-the-scenes trickery to weaken organic-labeling standards. Powerful Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, tacked a measure onto the recently passed $79 million war-spending bill that directs the U.S. Department of Agriculture to come up with a plan for certifying and ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, fishing, food, organic food, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Arctic Refuge Protected, Senators Threatened		20 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Arctic Refuge Protected, Senators Threatened In what may be the most significant triumph for environmentalists since President Bush took office, the U.S. Senate voted yesterday against opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Advocates of drilling fell two votes short of their goal, with seven Republicans voting with Democrats to protect the refuge by removing a drilling measure from the budget resolution under ...
Topics: energy, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Slope a Dope		05 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: Ted Stevens Slope a Dope Four decades of resource extraction in Alaska's North Slope has been a mixed bag for the region's environment and people, according to a study released yesterday by an 18-member panel of the National Research Council, the research arm of the U.S. National Academies. The study, which is the first-ever assessment of the cumulative impact of oil exploration and production in the slope, found that oil spills have not been a major problem but noted the negat ...
Topics: Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Wooda, Coulda, Shouldn't		13 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Wooda, Coulda, Shouldn't The U.S. Congress is readying to pass its catch-all domestic spending bill this week -- and with it, a provision that would give the timber industry responsibility for managing millions of acres of national forests throughout the West. Under the provision, which was added at the last min ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, business, land stewardship, logging, national parks, politics, Ted Stevens, US Forest Service, West, wilderness (all these topics)

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