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Headline	Author	Published	Section
McCain's climate plan Republican candidate's climate proposals better than expected but still behind the curve	David Roberts	11 May 2008	Gristmill
On Monday, John McCain will deliver a speech on climate change from Portland, Oregon. In it he will lay out the framework for climate policy under a McCain administration. After a primary spent shoring up his credentials among the Republican base, this is the beginning of his general election strategy: Operation I'm Not Bush. (One important note: the speech is not on energy. McCain will be delivering a major speech on energy in a few weeks, probably early June, wherei ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain's climate policy A conversation with McCain policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin	David Roberts	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Opinions differ on the quality of John McCain's domestic policy agenda, but you'd have trouble finding anyone in Washington who would disparage the man he's chosen as one of his top advisers. Douglas Holtz-Eakin has a dauntingly long resume and a reputation among policy wonks on both sides of the aisle for fair-minded number crunching. He has taught economics at top-notch universities, served as a senior economist in both Bush administrations, and run the Congressi ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, interview, John McCain, legislation, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Note to Newsweek McCain is closer to Bush than to the Democrats	Brad Johnson	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the Think Progress Wonk Room. Newsweek's cover story on the presidential candidates and global warming quotes UC Berkeley energy professor Dan Kammen, a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)'s presidential campaign: It's unusual to have a Republican candidate who openly disagrees with the Bush administration on the need for capping carbon emissions. There's more disagreement with the current administration than with each other. The idea t ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, George Bush, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

A compulsive ... nontruth-teller John McCain avoids using the word 'mandatory' when discussing cap-and-trade	Joseph Romm	14 Feb 2008	Gristmill
When will the media stop calling McCain a straight-talker and realize he is a pathological doubletalker? I realize the 'L' word is frowned upon in politics, so instead of using that word, which, in any case, doesn't do justice to the full range of doubletalk in the political arena -- let's just imagine there is an agreed-upon objective scale from 1 to 10 of veracity (with 5 being half-true) that goes something like this: (10) Fred Thompson, December 2007: 'I' ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	30 Jan 2008	Gristmill
"... there are a number of pieces of legislation where [McCain's] views are out of the mainstream, at least in my view, of conservative Republican thought. So, for instance, he's opposed to drilling in ANWR, I believe. ... ... And then now McCain-Lieberman, which is a unilateral -- meaning U.S.-only imposed -- cap-and-trade program, which puts a burden, as much as 50 cents a gallon, on gasoline in this country. It basically says Americans are going to pa ...
Topics: Arctic refuge, carbon trading, climate, elections, energy, John McCain, Mitt Romney, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Climate change in last night's GOP debate McCain's doubletalk express on global warming	Joseph Romm	25 Jan 2008	Gristmill
If you think Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is a straight-talking, courageous politician on the issue of global warming, watch this jaw-dropping clip from last night's Republican presidential debate: The transcript is online, so we can go through McCain's entire Orwellian answer to moderator Tim Russert. [Note: This was following a question to Giuliani about the global warming threat to Florida and his opposition to mandatory caps, which I'll briefly discu ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

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