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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Mildly different Are McCain's environmental views really so far from Bush's?	David Roberts	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller says, "On the environment ... Mr. McCain has strikingly different views from Mr. Bush." Is that true? Bush wants unstinting federal support and pork for the nuclear industry. He supports "clean coal." He is against raising CAFE standards on automobiles or boosting efficiency and performance standards on other individual economic sectors. He supports removing the moratorium on offshore drilling. He believes in ...
Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, John McCain, legislation, politics (all these topics)

More on the McCain doubletalk express McCain says Reid chose 'to put politics above policy'	Joseph Romm	07 Jun 2008	Gristmill
McCain's statement on Lieberman-Warner said this: ... it appears that for now, the Senate, at the direction of the Majority Leader, will choose to put politics above policy, and Congress will fail to act yet again on this critical issue. You cannot be serious! The people who put politics above policy were McCain's fellow conservatives, who Forced 30 hours of pointless debate Forced a 9-hour reading of the bill Demagogued the gasoline and energy price issue over a ...
Topics: climate, John McCain, legislation, politics (all these topics)

McCain is not the candidate of change Arizona senator says no to Boxer-L-W without giga-subsidies for nukes	Joseph Romm	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
McCain said last night that he is the candidate of change. How is billions of dollars in subsidies to build hundreds of nuclear power plants 'change'? Here is everything you need to know about McCain's understanding of both energy and climate issues: He doesn't care enough about the climate to support even a so-so bill like Boxer-Lieberman-Warner unless there are giga-subsidies for nukes beyond the $100 billion or so the industry has received to date. Q: Can y ...
Topics: legislation, presidential race 08, John McCain, politics, climate, nuclear power, dumbassery (all these topics)

GOP vs. John McCain? Climate bill fight likely to divide Republicans	Kate Sheppard	27 May 2008	Gristmill
Politico reports on the divide between John McCain and other Republicans on climate change: By contrast, the debate on a bipartisan climate change bill sponsored by Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John Warner (R-Va.) offers McCain a chance to stake out a position different from the president's and see if his party will follow. The catch is that many Republicans are uncomfortable with McCain's talk of a cap-and-trade program for reducing carbon emissions. ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, John McCain, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

As if! Will McCain bring conservatives with him on climate?	Joseph Romm	14 May 2008	Gristmill
A President McCain would have no magic wand to get conservatives to join a cause they simply don't believe in, much as he wasn't able to get them to join the cause for his McCain-Lieberman climate bill. As E&E News ($ub. req'd) reports today:Several key Capitol Hill Republicans stood defiant yesterday against the types of changes to U.S. global warming policy spelled out earlier this week by presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain ... 'I'm going to ...
Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, legislation, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain to endorse Lieberman-Warner? Candidate tips his hand at New Jersey event	Kate Sheppard	11 May 2008	Gristmill
In his remarks in Jersey City, N.J., on Friday, GOP presidential contender John McCain appeared to offer an off-handed endorsement of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. 'I hope it will pass,' he told the crowd, 'and I hope the entire Congress will join in supporting it and the president of the United States would sign it.' While he's offered tepid support for the bill before, he's hesitated to fully endorse it and has suggested that he'd like to see more sub ...
Topics: climate, John McCain, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (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)

Climate 'central' to McCain's campaign?	David Roberts	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill
In the course of an NYT story about McCain's tax policies (short summary: he wants to punch a $200b hole in the budget via regressive tax cuts), political reporter Michael Cooper says: One of Mr. McCain's tax proposals would take effect even before the Republican Convention: he called on Congress to suspend the 18.4 cent a gallon federal gas tax from Memorial Day until Labor Day. Mr. McCain said that doing so would provide 'an immediate economic stimulus,' but some ...
Topics: climate, John McCain, legislation, messaging, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Mittster attacks McCain on climate Could Romney's climate contrarianism come back to bite him in the general?	David Roberts	27 Jan 2008	Gristmill
It's becoming increasingly clear that the Republican race is down to McCain and Romney, and they are rapidly escalating their attacks on one another. Romney is now using McCain's climate legislation against him: In a new line of attack, Romney then tore into the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act. "Instead of seeing if there's a way of stimulating the economy, McCain-Lieberman would depress the economy," Romney said. "His plan cal ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, John McCain, legislation, Mitt Romney, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The GOP and climate One small step for Republicans on climate, but giant leaps still needed	Brian Beutler	27 Nov 2007	Gristmill
I've noticed recently that some conservatives -- particularly Andrew Sullivan -- have offered kind words to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for being the only presidential candidate in the Republican field to take the climate change issue seriously. It's difficult to know what to make of this. On the one hand, the country would be in a much better position to seriously address the crisis if John McCain's environmental views fell in the mainstream of his party, instead of ...
Topics: climate, energy, John McCain, legislation, politics (all these topics)

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