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Headline	Author	Published	Section
A media boon for Pickens T. Boone Pickens' plan is overexposed and inferior to Gore's	Joseph Romm	24 Jul 2008	Gristmill
It's official: T. Boone is overexposed. His monotonous TV ad runs on an endless loop, he has testified in front of Congress, he is now appearing on every cable show, and everybody quotes him even though he doesn't actually agree with anybody but himself. What specifically bugs me: His ads say we can't drill our way out of this problem, but then he says we should drill everywhere -- offshore, Alaska, your backyard. He keeps pushing his absurd idea of switchin ...
Topics: Al Gore, cars, climate, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

Memo to T. Boone Pickens His energy plan is half brilliant, half dumb	Joseph Romm	08 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The Phone Call based on a true story Major cable network: What do you think of T. Boone Pickens' latest energy plan? Me: Half of it is great -- the big push on wind power. Heck, even the Bush administration says wind power could be 20 percent of U.S. electricity. But the notion that we would use the wind power to free up natural gas in order to fuel a transition to natural gas vehicles makes no sense. Why would we go to the trouble of switching our vehicle fleet f ...
Topics: cars, climate, energy, natural gas, wind power (all these topics)

On the Ball: Good sports The athletics news you can't live without	Sarah K. Burkhalter	16 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Here's a fun game for the whole family: You name a sport; I'll tell you how it's jumping on the green bandwagon. Ready? OK! Baseball: Milwaukee Brewers first basement Prince Fielder has become a vegetarian after his wife gave him a copy of the book Skinny Bitch. He's probably not in their target demographic, but whatevs. Photo: Kingdafy Major League Baseball has teamed up with the Natural Resources Defense Council for a Team Greening Program, de ...
Topics: bikes, carbon neutral, cars, China, climate, energy, green building, Olympics, Prius, sports, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Monday linkfest	David Roberts	10 Mar 2008	Gristmill
My browser's getting crowded. Time for a link dump! Yes! magazine has an entire issue devoted to climate change. There's tons to see, with good pieces from Bill McKibben and Peter Barnes, but I particularly liked this hopeful rundown of solutions. It's odd that I love reading about solutions but I don't write about them much. Not sure why that is. Remember how the Bush administration spent 7.5 years battling and thwarting binding carbon emissions treaties and then sa ...
Topics: cars, cellulosic ethanol, climate, energy, ethanol, green living (all these topics)

Blocking state leadership on global warming Johnson made a decision that should have belonged to Congress	Joseph Romm	09 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Last week, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson published the official explanation of his decision to deny a waiver of preemption for California's program to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles. Robert Sussman, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, has a very good discussion of the misguided reasoning Johnson uses. The bottom line: The role of state programs under a comprehensive climate change framework may be a legitimate subject for deba ...
Topics: California, cars, climate, energy, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

Feebate watch California mulls nation's first feebate bill	David Roberts	28 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Feebates are one of the most promising strategies for lowering vehicle fleet emissions. This week, the California Assembly will vote on the nation's first feebate bill, the California Clean Car Discount Act. It would levy a fee of up to $2,500 on gas guzzlers, with commensurate rebates for fuel efficient cars. The L.A. Times has some good analysis. Opposition to the bill comes from about where you'd expect -- the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, the California Mo ...
Topics: air pollution, California, cars, climate, elections, energy, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

No, there need not be a way The privileged attitude of the motorhead	JMG	20 Jan 2008	Gristmill
A Washington Post columnist: I'm not making an ideological argument here or manufacturing an excuse for American super-consumers, with our Hummers and McMansions. I'm not offering a proper answer to the puzzle proffered above either, unfortunately, but just stating the rarely acknowledged facts: Probably there should be an emissions-free car available for $2,500 (or an organic granola bar for 52 cents), but, at the moment, there isn't. There must be a way to reconcile mass car ...
Topics: cars, climate, consumerism, energy (all these topics)

Ogle Cranky Academics Instead Top British scientist tells women to stop drooling over gas-guzzling males		19 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 2:18 PM on 19 Dec 2007 Hey ladies, wondering how to help fight climate change? It's simple: just stop encouraging men who waste resources! In particular, said U.K. climate scientist David King this week, "stop admiring young men in Ferraris." King's comments were immediately pounced upon -- not by feminists, but by Ferrari owners, who protested that their vehicles spew le ...
Topics: cars, climate, energy, funnies, green living, news, sex, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Toxic optimists vs. plaid shirts Delusional Beltway optimism about energy	Michael Tobis	12 Nov 2007	Gristmill
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a seminar hosted by several departments at the University of Texas on the topic of 'peak oil.' The occasion was the visit of David Sundalow of the Brookings Institution, who is hawking his new book Freedom from Oil. This was mutually convenient for him and the university, which is trying to carve out a position as an optimistic, rolled-up-sleeves, can-do problem-solver in the fields of energy and water. I have no objection to that ...
Topics: biofuels, ethanol, hybrids, cars, books, energy, climate (all these topics)

Silly	David Roberts	01 Nov 2007	Gristmill
But what can I say? I'm male. Scatological humor is in the DNA. (h/t: Grist reader LS)
Topics: cars, climate, energy, funnies, renewable energy (all these topics)

The 'Nissan bloc'	David Roberts	30 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Xenophobia rears its ugly head in the CAFE debate.
Topics: cars, climate, energy, fuel efficiency, politics (all these topics)

Debunking Shellenberger & Nordhaus -- Part III What Californians know that Shellenberger & Nordhaus don't	Joseph Romm	05 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'The kind of technological revolution called for by energy experts typically does not occur via regulatory fiat' claim Shellenberger & Nordhaus. Actually, that is typically the only way it occurs. I defy anyone to name a country that has successfully adopted alternative fuels for vehicles without employing some kind of regulatory mandate. This is also true in the electricity sector. Consider that in terms of electricity consumption, the average Californian gen ...
Topics: California, cars, climate, electric vehicles, energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, hybrids, tech (all these topics)

Sass Is in Sessions Judge rules against Big Auto, says states can regulate emissions from cars		12 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 11:11 AM on 12 Sep 2007 States should be allowed to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions from cars, and Big Auto should just deal, a federal judge ruled today. Right now, the only real way to curb the emissions is to improve gas mileage; when Vermont decided to adopt California's strict emissions rules, automakers sued, claiming that the state was illegally regulating fuel economy -- and that ma ...
Topics: Big Auto, cars, climate, energy, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, news, politics, regulation, state politics, Vermont (all these topics)

Post-Labor Day link dump, the first A gaggle of URLs	David Roberts	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill
I've been off work since Wed., so a ton of stuff has accumulated in my browser. As I would prefer to start Autumn '07 blogging with a clean slate, I hereby give you a Gargantuan Post-Labor Day Linkapalooza. Here we go! Illustration by Victor Juhasz for Rolling Stone A while back, the indispensable Jeff Goodell wrote a piece in Rolling Stone decimating "The Ethanol Scam." Bob Dinneen of the Renewable Fuels Association, a corn lobby group, has w ...
Topics: energy, climate, cars (all these topics)

Go Get 'Em, Plugger Plug-in hybrids would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, says new study		23 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Go Get 'Em, Plugger Plug-in hybrids would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, says new study Plug-in hybrid vehicles, long extolled here at Grist HQ, seem always to elicit one question from doubters: Wouldn't running cars on electricity just mean more emissions from power plants? Answer: No! According to a ne ...
Topics: cars, climate, electric vehicles, electricity grid, energy, fuel efficiency, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, hybrids, news, placemaking (all these topics)

New study finds that plug-in hybrids rule in all possible futures Really	David Roberts	20 Jul 2007	Gristmill
If you haven't already heard, yesterday saw the release of an important new report: In the most comprehensive environmental assessment of electric transportation to date, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) are examining the greenhouse gas emissions and air quality impacts of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). The purpose of the program is to evaluate the nationwide environmental impacts of pote ...
Topics: cars, climate, electric vehicles, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, hybrids, placemaking (all these topics)

Give ethanol a chance: The case for corn-based fuel With the right rules in place, it could work	David Morris	17 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Working Assets is my long-distance phone company. I love it dearly for its combination of business efficiency, social responsibility and progressive politics. Each month, my phone bill carries alerts that urge me to take action on a specific issue or two. Recent Citizen Actions suggest the gravity of the issues chosen: "Save Our Constitution," "Impeach Dick Cheney," "Close Guantanamo." This month Workin ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, ethanol, greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable energy (all these topics)

Fear and Loathing in D.C. The Bush administration is smoking out enviros left and right	Ben White	29 Mar 2001	Muckraker
Christie Todd Whitman. When it comes to listing body blows inflicted on the environmental movement by the Bush administration in recent days, it's hard to know where to start. Pick up the paper any day of the week and you'll likely find a fresh slap in the face of U.S. EPA "Administrator" Christie Todd Whitman. A backtrack on arsenic standards here, a promise to drill in Ala ...
Topics: cars, climate, energy, Environmental Defense Fund, Muckraker, politics, Prius (all these topics)

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