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Let's talk about caps, baby Enviros cheer debate talk about climate and energy, but want more details	Kate Sheppard	08 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Say what you may about last night's debate, but it was anything but boring for enviros. Even if the candidates largely recycled preexisting talking points on energy and climate, the mere fact that both issues got top billing in a presidential debate was an historic first. 'What strikes me as important is that energy has risen to the top of the list in terms of issues that people are concerned about right now. It's really energy, the economy, health care, and the w ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Veep thoughts Reflecting on (and fact-checking) the VP debate	Kate Sheppard	03 Oct 2008	Gristmill
With the lengthy discussion of energy and climate issues in last night's debate, it was easy to miss some important aspects as the vice presidential candidates sped through their respective talking points. For example, Joe Biden's repeated plugs for 'clean coal' irked enviros, particularly the folks at 1Sky. It was a 1Sky organizer who asked Biden about clean coal on a rope line recently, prompting him to badmouth it; that got the McCain and Obama campaigns bicker ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, Joe Biden, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin (all these topics)

VP debate: The question of climate change Watch the video and read the transcript	Grist	03 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Last night's vice presidential debate featured an important exchange on climate change. Grist is posting the video and transcript excerpt below: Moderator Gwen Ifill's question to Sarah Palin: 'Governor, I'm happy to talk to you in this next section about energy issues. Let's talk about climate change. What is true and what is false about what we have heard, read, discussed, debated about the causes of climate change?' Here's the transcript of this section of the debat ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, Joe Biden, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin, video (all these topics)

A can't-lose debate strategy for Joe Biden	Joseph Romm	02 Oct 2008	Gristmill
I have a new mini-article in Salon, 'A can't-lose debate strategy for Joe Biden.' It explains how Biden can win the debate and score big points with independents by bringing up clean energy and global warming as much as possible. This may require more message discipline than the Dem VP nominee has. The article ends by noting, 'This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that Biden must not screw up.' This post was created for ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Ce ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, Joe Biden, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Head in the oil sands Turns out McCain doesn't care about the greatest threat we face	Joseph Romm	10 Sep 2008	Gristmill
All you need to know about McCain's core beliefs on climate change: The 72-year-old McCain named a global-warming-denying, Big Oil Super-Shill as his vice presidential nominee. His much anticipated acceptance speech never once mentioned the gravest threat facing the health and well-being of the nation and the world. After walking away from a mandatory cap-and-trade system, he is now running an ad that appears to attack the very idea of cap-and-trade. I have l ...
Topics: Sarah Palin, John McCain, presidential race 08, elections, climate, energy, politics, video (all these topics)

Barr on the Record An interview with Bob Barr about his presidential platform on energy and the environment	Kate Sheppard	09 Sep 2008	Grist Feature
Bob Barr. Photo: Bob Barr for President In July, Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate for president, attended a big climate-change speech by Al Gore and found himself being praised by the former vice president for paying serious attention to the issue. After the speech, Barr issued a statement commending Gore for his "efforts and leadership" on global ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, interview, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Obama's energy and climate advisors	Joseph Romm	22 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Greenwire ($ub. req'd) has published a detailed list of who is advising Obama on energy and environment policies, which I am reprinting below the fold. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, has a notably deep bench of experts to help him answer key questions on energy prices, oil drilling and global warming I know most of them well, and they are A-listers with deep experience in and out of government. During the Clinton administration, I had the pleasure to work with both ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McKinney on the Record Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney talks to Grist	Kate Sheppard	22 Aug 2008	Grist Feature
Cynthia McKinney. Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney sums up her energy policy with a simple, memorable rhyme: "Leave the oil in the soil." "Right now we've got two energy policies in this country," McKinney told Grist. "One is war, the other is drilling. And neither one of them works." It's a message she hopes will win over vot ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, interview, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

A real energy plan for America Efficiency now, 10 percent renewables by 2012, and one million plug-in hybrids by 2015	Joseph Romm	05 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Senator Barack Obama has fulfilled the promise of his earlier climate plan with a detailed and comprehensive 'New Energy for America' [PDF] plan. Yesterday, he gave a major speech on this plan in Lansing, Michigan. This is easily the best energy plan ever put forward by a nominee of either party: Increase Fuel Economy Standards: Obama will increase fuel economy standards 4 percent per each year while protecting the financial future of domestic automakers ... ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

'2013' McCain outlines priorities for first term; climate and energy make the cut	Kate Sheppard	15 May 2008	Gristmill
John McCain is in Ohio today, where he gave a speech this morning about what he plans to accomplish by 2013. Progress on climate and energy is part of his vision for a better world at the end of his first term: The United States is well on the way to independence from foreign sources of oil -- progress that has not only begun to alleviate the environmental threat posed from climate change, but has greatly improved our security as well. A cap-and-trade system has bee ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Jason and the Carbonauts Obama energy adviser Jason Grumet talks climate, coal, and green jobs	David Roberts	06 May 2008	Grist Feature
Jason Grumet. As executive director of the National Commission on Energy Policy, a bipartisan group of 20 energy experts created in 2002, Jason Grumet has come in for some flack from environmentalists. NCEP's influential 2004 energy report called for several measures anathema to greens, including a "safety valve" that would set an upper limit on the price of carbo ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, interview, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

John Voyage McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin opens up on climate and energy	David Roberts	21 Apr 2008	Grist Feature
Douglas Holtz-Eakin. 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-no ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, interview, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Nader on the Record An interview with Ralph Nader about his presidential platform on energy and the environment	Amanda Griscom Little	19 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
This is part of a series of interviews with presidential candidates. Ralph Nader. Photo: Sage Ross He brought you the seat belt. He launched a consumer advocacy empire. He got 2,883,105 votes in the 2000 presidential election, which critics argue helped put George W. Bush in the White House. Ralph Nader has earned fame -- and infamy -- for many d ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, interview, politics, presidential race 08, Ralph Nader (all these topics)

Letter in TAP Green advocates urged to be reasonable	David Roberts	02 Mar 2008	Gristmill
In last month's print edition of The American Prospect, Chris Mooney had an article called "This will mean the world to us," about what a new president and Congress could and should do on climate change. The editors asked me to write a letter in response, which is in this month's issue. It's semi-on the web here, but I think you have to be a subscriber to read it. Here's the full, pre-edited version: Dear editor, In his otherwise astute survey of the pol ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

'How not to run for vice president' VP hopeful Pawlenty fails energy/climate conservative litmus test	Joseph Romm	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Just in case you thought conservatives might be warming up to climate action and clean energy with the impending nomination of John McCain, uber-conservative columnist Bob Novak explains otherwise in a column titled 'How Not to Run for Vice President.' As a nonconservative, I know I can't do justice to Novak's 'logic' by summarizing it, and I suspect many readers would think I was taking his argument out of context, since it seems so ... well ... judge for yours ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Is Obama's climate plan missing something? The Washington Post lamely attacks Obama's climate ideas	Joseph Romm	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Post columnist Sebastian Mallaby, in an absurdly titled column, 'Obama's Missing Ideas,' proves once again that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Obama's ideas about climate solutions are probably the very last place one can find something missing. Obama has a terrific climate plan, full of winning ideas, as I have blogged many times. Yet Mallaby claims that 'good ideas are actually quite scarce. Just take a look at climate change.' Mallaby's 'case' is based ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain vs. Hillary vs. Obama vs. Bingaman, Bernie, and Boxer What makes a good climate change plan?	Adam Stein	21 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'Tis the season for climate plan meta-analysis. I get asked a lot about the presidential candidates' environmental bona fides, which has led me to put together the following long, dense, and absolutely riveting primer on what to look for in a good climate change plan. These principles apply to cap-and-trade style programs, because that's what all the presidential candidates are proposing. 1. Go deep The 'cap' part of cap-and-trade refers to the emissions level manda ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Presidential campaign footprints under scrutiny Confused Washington Times disses McCain and Obama on lack of carbon offsets	Joseph Romm	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill
In a bizarre twist, the conservative Washington Times, which would normally be critical of fuzzy environmental strategies like carbon offsets, is actually attacking the candidates for not offsetting all their campaign emissions. Opening with an absurd headline, 'Green crusades lot of talk,' the Times writes: Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have called for strict mandatory limits to control greenhouse gases but they aren't leading by example -- each has failed ...
Topics: Barack Obama, carbon offsets, climate, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Weasel of the week Tim Kaine burns national ambitions in coal furnace	Glenn Hurowitz	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Virginia's Democratic governor Tim Kaine, often mentioned as a possible vice presidential nominee, seems to be flushing his ambitions for national office down the toilet by actively working to build yet another coal-fired power plant for one of his biggest campaign donors. Tim Kaine. Photo: virginia.gov Kaine has tried to present himself as a green, forward-thinking governor by proposing a 'Virginia Energy Plan' he claimed would reduce greenhouse-gas emis ...
Topics: climate, coal, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08, Virginia (all these topics)

John McCain and climate change How strong is McCain's commitment to fighting global warming?	David Roberts	15 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The following post was first published on Passing Through, The Nation's guest blog, where I will be posting all month. Though recession and war are probably higher on the public's immediate priority list, there is no challenge of greater historical consequence facing the next U.S. president than the climate crisis. It is vitally important that the next chief executive enter the Oval Office committed to decisive and sustained action. He or she will need a firm g ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, 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)

Barack's economic policy speech in Wisconsin Obama lauds green jobs and clean tech in economy speech	Todd Hymas Samkara	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Photo: Sam Graham-Felsen In a speech on Wednesday at a GM auto plant in Wisconsin, Barack Obama outlined his economic agenda for the country. He described his stimulus plan, promising to boost green jobs, help the middle class, dole out tax cuts, negotiate worker and environmental protections in upcoming free-trade agreements -- and, to help pay for much of it, end the costly war in Iraq. The environmental highlights of the speech are below (audio ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, green jobs, politics, presidential race 08, renewable energy, tech (all these topics)

The shape of the race The next U.S. president will favor a carbon cap. What effect this has on the race is anyone's guess.	Adam Stein	08 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Now that John McCain is the presumptive Republican nominee, the shape of the debate over climate change takes on different contours. Hillary and Obama are offering substantively similar climate plans, so there's no need to wait for the Democratic contest to be decided before we start gaming out a few scenarios. 1) Will climate change take on more or less prominence as an issue in the general election? Argument for less: with everyone preaching from the same book, th ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Carbon-loaded question Obama parries ABEC	David Roberts	31 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Obama gets buttonholed by a planted ABEC coal shill: Nothing he says here is particularly objectionable. The priority on reducing CO2 emissions is welcome. It is true that if we can figure out a way to cost-effectively sequester coal emissions, it will bring some benefit. More important, though, is what's not said. He says we can't emit more CO2, but he stops short of calling for a moratorium on dirty coal plants with no sequestration. (He says he won't 'license ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, coal, elections, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, 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)

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