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As dirty as Inhofe John McCain's environmental record is as bad as climate change denier James Inhofe	Joseph Romm	22 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is an avowed climate science believer who comes from a state with enough solar resource to power the entire nation. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) is an avowed climate science denier who comes from a major oil patch state. So why has McCain voted with Inhofe and against clean energy and the environment a staggering 42 out of 44 times since the mid-1990s? And that doesn't even include eight straight votes on extending the renewable energy tax c ...
Topics: renewable energy, energy, politics, climate, John McCain, lying liars, James Inhofe (all these topics)

How would you spend $10 billion? House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says he'd invest in clean energy	Kate Sheppard	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The Wall Street Journal asked House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) how he would spend $10 billion of the country's monetary resources. He says it should be spent on clean energy: A dramatic investment in clean energy would be the most effective check on aggressive petroregimes from Moscow to Tehran. It would be the best long-term solution to global warming. And energy independence is the most effective step we can take for American families staggering under t ...
Topics: climate, energy, Muckraker, news, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Climate change ideas for On Day One Day two of the UN Dispatch-Grist collaboration	Ideas for On Day One	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Our weeklong collaboration with UN Dispatch rolls on today with a discussion prompted by On Day One user taylorshelton who suggests government subsidies for non-renewable energy should be eliminated. Eliminate all subsidies for traditional fuels (coal, oil and nuclear) and invest all energy-related funds into renewable energy resources like solar, wind and cellulosic ethanol with the goal of completely eliminating dependence on fossil fue ...
Topics: Big Oil, climate, coal, energy, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Climate change ideas for On Day One A UN Dispatch-Grist collaboration	Ideas for On Day One	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This week marks the twentieth anniversary of NASA Scientist James Hansen's groundbreaking Congressional testimony on global warming, an event that put climate change squarely on the political agenda. In honor of the anniversary, UN Dispatch, On Day One, and Grist are partnering to discuss ideas the next president can adopt to take on climate change. We are joined by a panel of experts who will weigh in on ideas submitted to On Day One by every ...
Topics: climate, energy, James Hansen, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Grand Ostrich Party Conservative heads increasingly buried in sand	Ryan Avent	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Andrew Sullivan reads this Jim Manzi post (Conservatives are going to win on climate change! By doing nothing!) and says he's on board. He then proceeds to blow my freaking mind: The key will be private and public innovation of non-carbon energy, and possibly carbon capture technology. Frankly, however painful it is for many, the high price of gas is perhaps the best anti-global warming non-policy there is. Now, why is it that the high price of gas is the best an ...
Topics: climate, energy, fossil fuels, gas prices, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

The cowardly lion McCain to skip another crucial climate vote	David Roberts	29 May 2008	Gristmill
Unbelievable. Sen. John McCain -- who just weeks ago said of the Climate Security Act, "I hope it will pass, and I hope the entire Congress will join in supporting it and the President of the United States would sign it" -- now says he won't show up to vote on it. He won't vote against it, mind you. Won't go on record. Won't take a stand. He just won't show. 'I have not been there for a number of votes. The same thing happened in the campaign of ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, jackassery, legislation, nuclear power, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Town meeting fun Small-town politics meets big-time energy crisis	Katharine Wroth	21 May 2008	Gristmill
Last night I went to the town meeting where I live, which -- well, if you've never lived anywhere podunk enough to have a town meeting, you're missing out. This one was just as I remember them from my childhood, though PowerPoint has replaced mimeographed pages: ambition, exhaustion, confusion, and the one crusty, bearded guy who has to argue every point. After a presentation by the head of the municipally owned utility, a tall, thin audience member in a tan suit an ...
Topics: climate, energy, energy at home, green living, oil, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Three-point plan RFK Jr. advocates for cap-and-trade, renewables, smart grids	Adam Browning	20 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s got a three-point plan for the next president. I think it would work.
Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Will you pay or will you go? Renewables score big victory in the Senate	Josh Dorner	10 Apr 2008	Gristmill
With today's green energy boom (and over 100,000 existing jobs in the wind and solar industries alone) hanging in the balance, the Senate voted this morning by an overwhelming 88 to 8 margin to attach short-term extensions of key clean energy tax incentives set to expire at the end of this year -- the Production Tax Credit that mostly goes to wind power, the Investment Tax Credit for solar, and other incentives for energy efficient appliances and the like -- to the housi ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy, US House of Representatives, US Senate (all these topics)

Maryland keeps getting greener State's governor pursuing clean energy and GHG reductions	Joseph Romm	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Kari Manlove, fellows assistant at the Center for American Progress. ----- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has prioritized clean energy policy and aims to reduce the state's energy consumption 15 percent by 2015. In addition, Maryland is a part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electric utilities. With those goals topping the governor's agenda, Maryland's Senate chambers ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Maryland, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

More reasons to love Lieberman-Warner CAP article says it promotes the transition to clean energy	Joseph Romm	02 Apr 2008	Gristmill
A new article by the Center for American Progress makes clear that the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act [PDF], S. 2191, would be a boon to affordable, job-creating renewable energy. The article, by CAP's Daniel J. Weiss and Alexandra Kougentakis, explains how the bill would ... ... make significant reductions in the carbon dioxide pollution that causes global warming as well as turbo charge investments in clean energy technologies such as wind, solar, and geotherma ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Bush's sleight of hand Renewable energy subterfuge	Joseph Romm	05 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Daniel J. Weiss and Nick Kong. It was originally published on the Center for American Progress website. ----- Photo: whitehouse.gov 'Watch what we do, not we say,' Attorney General John N. Mitchell accurately warned at the dawn of the Nixon administration. This could also be a fitting epitaph for President Bush's energy policies. Despite frequent claims of support for renewable energy over the years, the record show ...
Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

The subsidy tease, part III A solar grand plan	Joseph Romm	15 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- A recent issue of Scientific American featured a 'Solar Grand Plan.' Its authors described a way for the United States to obtain nearly 100 percent of its electricity and 90 percent of its total energy, including transportation, from solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal resources by end-of-century. Electricity would cost a comfortable 5 cen ...
Topics: climate, energy, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

The subsidy tease, part II Renewable energy incentives were stripped from the energy bill; what should be done next?	Joseph Romm	14 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- The energy bill passed by Congress last December originally contained a beneficial, if temporary, set of financial incentives to spur the growth of renewable energy technologies in the United States. The bill included a renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS) that would require states to acquire part of their electric power from r ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

The subsidy tease, part I Congress needs to stop flirting with the renewable energy industry	Joseph Romm	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- When it comes to relationships, Congress is a big tease. Or so it must seem to the energy efficiency and renewable energy industries. Just when they think they're about to go to the altar with the federal government, Congress becomes the runaway bride. Everyone who's anyone acknowledges that energy efficiency and renewable energy a ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, innovation, legislation, politics, renewable energy, tech (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)

Charlie Crist Superstar An interview with Florida's governor, a Republican climate crusader	Amanda Griscom Little	14 Jan 2008	Grist Feature
Charlie Crist. Photo:Steven Murphy/WireImage Meet Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a surprising blend of Grand Ol' Party and bleeding-heart greenie. As a Republican, he defends the Bush administration's environmental record, but he also counts among his personal heroes Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who wrote an entire book condemning Bush as "America's worst environmental pre ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, Florida, interview, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

The high costs of doing nothing, part II True costs of fossil fuels make renewables seem cheap in comparison	Joseph Romm	09 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- In November 2006, California voters rejected Proposition 87, a ballot initiative to raise the oil industry's taxes by $4 billion for research into renewable energy. Four months before the ballot, a survey (PDF) by the Public Policy Institute of California found that 61 percent of likely voters favored the idea, including 51 percent ...
Topics: climate, consumerism, energy, fossil fuels, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

CNBC energy bill debate with Dan Weiss The economic benefits of going green	Joseph Romm	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Earlier this week, senior fellow and director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress, Dan Weiss, went on CNBC to discuss 'the economic benefits of going green' as it relates to the energy bill currently in Congress. Weiss, a strong advocate of the clean energy provisions, went head to head with Max Schultz of the Manhattan Institute, whose sole platform was costs. The unjustifiably controversial renewable portfolio standard was the heart of the ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, energy efficiency, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner Back online	Brian Beutler	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Okay, the committee website picked the feed back. It can be accessed here. In the intervening hour or so, a Cardin amendment -- to fund federal agencies involved in L-W enforcement with money raised from the auction -- passed. So did an amendment offered by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) to create a bonus system for renewable energy modeled on the bill's existing bonus system for carbon capture, and a Lautenberg amendment offering to authorize the National Academy ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

The speaker speaks on the energy bill Nancy Pelosi answers my question about renewables in the energy bill	Brian Beutler	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill
I and several other journalists spent the morning at an on-the-record breakfast with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) where, armed with my trusty digital voice recorder, I asked her to address last week's rumors about the potential demise of renewable energy in the energy bill. Will the electricity standard and the tax titles be dropped? If not, will the bill be split into parts? Her reaction was ... well, I'd call it slight consternation. She, not surprisingly ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Nancy Pelosi, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Why sustainable development is so damn hard: Philippines edition Subsidized power leads to energy waste	Joseph Romm	03 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Philippines president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo spoke at the opening plenary of the Clinton Global Initiative. Unintentionally, her remarks illustrated the challenge of sustainable development. First the good news -- green power: We are endowed with geothermal power and it fits very well with our Green Philippines program. We want to use clean energy, we want to have energy independence, and geothermal power gives us clean energy and energy independence. Just befor ...
Topics: renewable energy, climate, energy, Philippines, politics (all these topics)

Mr. Clinton goes to the public-goods markets The promise of governmental buyers' clubs	Jon Rynn	19 Sep 2007	Gristmill
We often wonder whether the government is better suited to solving many of our problems, or whether the market should take the lead. The current issue of The Atlantic Monthly has an article concerning the efforts of Bill Clinton's foundation which addresses this issue. The article shows how governments can work with markets for the benefit of large numbers of people and the planet by guaranteeing demand for a particular product or service. By doing this in the long-te ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Carbon- and nuclear-free America possible by 2050 Now that's a 12-step program	JMG	01 Aug 2007	Gristmill
A hopeful press release touting an even more hopeful (wishful?) report: Takoma Park, MD -- At the G-8 summit in Germany in June 2007, President Bush promised to 'consider seriously' the European Union goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to limit global temperature rise to about 4 degrees Fahrenheit. A new study concludes that the United States could eliminate almost all of its carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2050. It also concludes that it is possible ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, nuclear power, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Climate change big picture A great piece in the WaPo	David Roberts	16 Jul 2007	Gristmill
In Sunday's Washington Post, Steven Mufson has an excellent big-picture look at the effort to fight global warming via legislation. It offers a sense of the scope of the problem: The potential economic impact of meaningful climate legislation -- enough to reduce U.S. emissions by at least 60 percent -- is vast. Automobiles would have to get double their current miles to the gallon. Building codes would have to be tougher, requiring use of more energy-efficient mater ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

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