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On the prez A roundup of environmental news from the presidential race	Kate Sheppard	18 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Obama announced a proposal for a $5 billion Great Lakes restoration program on Tuesday, with funds to be spent on wetlands restoration, sewage repairs, cleaning up mercury and other toxic pollutants, and controlling invasive species. The proposal is expected to help him in the crucial swing states of Michigan and Ohio. McCain and Obama each talked to Field & Stream magazine about drilling, conservation, and guns. In her second television interview, with Fo ...
Topics: Muckraker, politics, elections, presidential race 08, John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, news (all these topics)

Survey says Economists prefer Obama on energy and environment policy	David Roberts	18 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Dilbert author Scott Adams commissioned a survey of 500 economists, asking them which candidate they prefer on a variety of issues. The results are ... not very interesting. Short story: economists prefer Obama. Medium story: Democratic economists prefer Obama, Republican economists prefer McCain, and independents swing Obama (46-39 percent). Breakdown of the 500, drawn from the nonpartisan American Economic Association: 48% Democrats 17% Republicans 27% ...
Topics: presidential race 08, economy, politics, elections, John McCain, Barack Obama (all these topics)

Talking science McCain and Obama answer questions on science and scientific integrity	Kate Sheppard	16 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Scientists and Engineers for America sent a questionnaire to the major-party presidential candidates asking them about innovation and a number of science-related issues. Obama responded several weeks ago, and now McCain has delivered his answers. You can compare their responses on climate change, energy, ocean health, water shortages, government-funded research, and scientific integrity. Most of the candidates' answers will sound familiar to those who've been f ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

'Bush 44' Obama campaign goes on the attack while McCain's newest ad calls for more drilling	Kate Sheppard	15 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The Obama campaign is going on the attack today. It's releasing a new ad, 'Honor,' that strings together media quotes accusing John McCain of making false claims and running a sleazy campaign. And Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden is hitting McCain with a speech -- unambiguously titled 'Bush 44' -- that argues the Republican candidate would perpetuate the Bush administration's agenda on issues including energy policy. 'John McCain stands with Ge ...
Topics: advertising, Barack Obama, elections, gas prices, Joe Biden, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Defenders take offense Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund endorses Obama-Biden ticket	Kate Sheppard	12 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund today joined the growing list of environmental groups endorsing Barack Obama for president, citing John McCain's pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate as a major reason they will not endorse the GOP ticket. 'John McCain's choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate confirmed that the only candidates we can truly count on to protect our air, land and water are Senators Obama and Biden, and we are proud to today offer our endor ...
Topics: Barack Obama, John McCain, muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin, video, wildlife (all these topics)

Ride, baby, ride Expanded transit can lead to energy independence	Jon Rynn	12 Sep 2008	Gristmill
While the Republicans were busy chanting 'drill, baby, drill' at their convention, they ignored a much better alternative: riding on buses and trains. �As Diane Carman put it in The Rocky Mountain News: The irony was almost creepy. Thousands of Republicans were gleefully chanting 'Drill, baby, drill' inside a convention hall in St. Paul, Minn., some 43 years nearly to the day after the infamous Watts riots when the original chant, 'Burn, baby, burn' was coined by mobs d ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, politics, presidential race 08, public transportation, Republican National Convention (all these topics)

'We Should Do Something Nice' Forum Obama mentions green programs in 9/11 public-service forum		12 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 5:55 AM on 12 Sep 2008 In separate sit-down interviews at the ServiceNation presidential forum at Columbia University on Thursday, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama spoke extensively about volunteerism and community service in commemoration of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks. However, of the two presidential hopefuls, Obama was the only one to mention energy policy or ...
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, John McCain, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

SpeechWars	David Roberts	11 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Via Treehugger, SpeechWars is indeed addictive. Enter any word and you can see how many times Obama and McCain have used it in their speeches over the last four years: The results are not always intuitive. Then again, some are:
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Pig poo Obama thinks the American people don't want diversions and manipulations ... but why?	David Roberts	11 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Obama responds to the trumped-up 'lipstick on a pig' controversy, whereby the media dutifully reported the McCain campaign's hilarious assertion that Obama was calling Palin a pig: Yes, the McCain campaign would love to have this kind of thing continue right through November. Obama thinks the American people would rather discuss solutions to the energy crisis and other such matters of governance and policy. But why does he think that? If the American people w ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, shenanigans, video (all these topics)

Putting science back in the White House New Scientist assesses McCain and Obama on science issues	Kate Sheppard	10 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The latest issue of New Scientist features a special report on the 2008 election, exploring the 'most pressing science issues facing John McCain and Barack Obama in the run up to the November ballot.' The key issue? According to the experts interviewed for the piece, it's simply having someone in the White House who is 'more aware of science' than the Bush administration has been for the past eight years. 'We feel it's enormously important to have a president who ...
Topics: Barack Obama, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

You elite me Resentment in partisan politics	David Roberts	10 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Reacting to this post, Reihan Salam (who majors in good blogging and minors in even better dancing) says there is enough fear, resentment, and moral arrogance to go around. He says arguing over who's the bitterest of all is "unedifying." Your honor, I object! I wrote said post mere hours after Romney assaulted my logic (Throw out the big-government liberals and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin!), Giuliani groped my lizard brain (I'm sorry Barack Obama fee ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, oil, politics, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin (all these topics)

Truth, baby, truth! It's time to break the American addiction to oil	Joseph Romm	09 Sep 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- When George Bush declared that the United States is addicted to oil, it may have been the most insightful moment of his presidency. It is a cruel but apt analogy, and that's why the big push for more domestic oil production is so disturbing. John McCain has created the 'Drill Here, Drill Now' mantra, as though he wants to sink a well ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, international politics, Iran, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, Russia, Sarah Palin ... (all these topics)

Take that, Rudy Community organizers rock	Jon Rynn	09 Sep 2008	Gristmill

Topics: presidential race 08, elections, grassroots activism, politics, Barack Obama, video (all these topics)

Finally	David Roberts	08 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Obama spokesman calls Palin's 'Bridge to Nowhere' claim what it is: a lie. Was that so hard? UPDATE: See also:
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, politics, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin, video (all these topics)

RNC: McCain camp pits Obama v. Palin in new ad Truth about oil support is blurred in new McCain ad	Kate Sheppard	03 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Before Sarah Palin's VP nomination acceptance speech tonight, the McCain campaign released a new ad, 'Alaska Maverick.' It compares Palin to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama: 'She has a record of bi-partisan reform,' it says. 'He's the Senate's 'most liberal.'' 'She took on the oil producers,' it continues. 'He gave big oil billions in subsidies and giveaways.' The accusation that Obama 'gave big oil billions in subsidies and giveaways' is somewhat ...
Topics: advertising, presidential race 08, elections, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Republican National Convention, politics, video (all these topics)

Science debate 2008 A presidential pop quiz on energy, water, scientific integrity, oceans, and climate change	Maywa Montenegro	02 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Barack Obama's answers to the 14 top science questions facing America. (McCain is still working on his answers.)
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, climate science, John McCain, politics (all these topics)

Voters' Voices: Virginia II Talking with voters in central Virginia about the environment and the election	Melinda Henneberger	29 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This is part of a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the environment and the election. Stanardsville, Va. -- A harvest moon is rising over the cornfields on the last night of the Greene County Fair, just hours before the carnival rides are packed up and the local politicos break down the vast GOP tent, where yard signs and balloons are being handed out, and the much smaller ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, Virginia, Voters Voices (all these topics)

DNC: Obama's speech, in photos Scenes from Mile High Stadium	Kate Sheppard	29 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Here are some photos I took from the crowd at Mile High Stadium on Thursday night for Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention:
Topics: Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, elections, Muckraker, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

DNC: Barack star Obama calls out climate and energy in his big acceptance speech	Kate Sheppard	28 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Barack Obama.Photo: Alex Brandon / AP Thursday's much anticipated acceptance speech by Barack Obama was less like a political event than a rock concert. Except you've never seen people quite this excited at a rock concert. Obama took the stage before 75,000 fans waving flags, stomping, and screaming. Among the many issues he addressed in his long, winding oration, he pledged to confront the duel challenges of climate change and energy independence. 'For the sake ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, elections, Muckraker, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

DNC: Al systems go! Al Gore says Barack Obama is the man to solve the climate crisis	Kate Sheppard	28 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Al Gore. Al Gore, one of the headline speakers this evening at Mile High Stadium, spoke at length about the challenges of climate change and energy. 'We are facing a planetary emergency, which is not like anything we have experienced in the history of humankind,' he said. Gore emphasized that there's a common answer to the triple threats of climate change, the economic crisis, and the energy crunch. 'The solutions to all three require us to end our dependence on ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, elections, Muckraker, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

DNC: Waiting for the main event Obama to tout clean coal, nuclear, and renewables in his big speech	Kate Sheppard	28 Aug 2008	Gristmill
David and I are in Invesco Field, among tens of thousands of delegates, reporters, and Denver residents awaiting Barack Obama's acceptance speech tonight. We're glad to be inside -- outside the line snakes more than a mile out from the stadium. They're expecting more than 75,000 attendees tonight, and the security line is a giant mess, according to folks we know still waiting outside. So far we've seen a whole list of party higher-ups, including Speaker of t ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, elections, energy, Muckraker, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

America's Next Top Priority? Obama would make cap-and-trade program a top economic priority		26 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 2:37 PM on 26 Aug 2008 Photo: barackobama.com Setting up a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse-gas emissions would be one of Barack Obama's top economic priorities if he were elected president, right up there with a new health-care system, The Wall Street Journal reports. As part of an effort to cut emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, Obama would auction off pollution permits, rais ...
Topics: Barack Obama, carbon trading, climate, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

DNC: On the platform Delegates approve platform that embraces Obama's energy plan	Kate Sheppard	25 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The Democratic Party today approved a platform that embraces presidential candidate Barack Obama's energy policies. Included in it is his call for tax rebates to families struggling with high energy costs. In an op-ed in the Denver Post today, John Podesta and Timothy Wirth argue that the platform doesn't go far enough on energy issues. Podesta is president of the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff to President Clinton, and Wirth is president of ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, elections, energy, Muckraker, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Obamanomics NYT Magazine probes Obama's economic thinking	David Roberts	25 Aug 2008	Gristmill
If you read only one article about Barack Obama this week -- hell, this campaign season -- make it 'Obamanomics,' by David Leonhardt, in Sunday's New York Times Magazine. Little I've read about Obama has provided more insight into the way he thinks, not only about economics, but also about public policy generally. The framing here is the 'battle of the Bobs' -- Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who prioritizes bringing down the deficit and strengthening markets ...
Topics: Barack Obama, carbon trading, economy, greenhouse-gas emissions, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Joe environment Enviros generally pleased with Biden's record on environmental issues	Kate Sheppard	23 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Joe Biden. Photo: Michael Millhollin In a 3 a.m. blast of emails and text messages, Democrat Barack Obama announced that his selection for a vice presidential candidate is Delaware Sen. Joe Biden. And, for the most part, representatives from the environmental community were pleased with the news they awoke to Saturday morning. During his 35 years in the Senate, Biden has been most active on the Foreign Relations Committee, which he now chairs. But in tha ...
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, Joe Biden, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

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