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The job-creating answer to global warming A new report lays a road map for creating green jobs while fighting the climate crisis	Joseph Romm	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
A major new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) provides a detailed roadmap for avoiding catastrophic global warming and restoring our energy security, while maintaining economic development. The report, 'Capturing the Energy Opportunity: Creating a Low Carbon Economy,' is by CAP's John Podesta, Kitt Batten, and Todd Stern. It is well worth reading, and I say that not because I am a senior fellow at CAP, but because the 88-page report lays out th ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, green jobs, politics (all these topics)

Forum video, now with comments Tell us what you think about the presidential forum	David Roberts	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The video from Grist's presidential forum on climate is now available on a page that accepts comments. So go comment! One thing to watch for: check out what Hillary says at 6:33, and compare to what Edwards says at around 35:00. Are they right?
Topics: climate, Dennis Kucinich, elections, energy, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, 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)

Our defining moment The next president needs to move with speed and clear vision on mitigating climate change	Joseph Romm	27 Nov 2007	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. Rajendra Pachuari. As I mentioned in a previous post, many of my colleagues in climate-action circles are delighted at the detailed commitments the presidential candidates in the Democratic field are making around global warming. It seems ungrateful to ask them for more. But ask we must. We need to know what they'll do to act quickly. ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Kucinich, Clinton, and Edwards on climate and energy Grist presidential climate forum: full transcript and video	David Roberts	26 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Last week, I offered my impressions of the candidates at our presidential forum on climate. Now the complete transcript (PDF) and full video are available. Make your own judgments and share your own impressions in comments. (This video will be permanently available here.) You can embed the videos on your own site:If you'd like to embed the full (four segment) video player, use the following code: <iframe width="520" scrolling="no" framebor ...
Topics: climate, Dennis Kucinich, elections, energy, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

OPEC joins Bush, Gingrich, and Lomborg in climate technology strategy Research vs. cap-and-trade	Joseph Romm	20 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Yes, OPEC is now 'pledging $750 million for research into climate change technology' (while opposing a cap-and-trade system). [Note to President Bush, Newt Gingrich, and Bj�rn Lomborg -- it ain't a good sign when your climate strategy is the same as OPEC's.] OPEC, however, seems a tad confused on just what a technology-based strategy could do for oil: OPEC is worried that a new international accord could cramp fast-growing Middle East economies, where oil use ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, international politics, politics, scientific research (all these topics)

CNN on Grist's climate forum Wherein I joke about John Edwards' hair	David Roberts	19 Nov 2007	Gristmill
CNN did a short segment on our presidential climate forum and the difficulty of raising the issue's political profile. It's actually a fairly astute piece. I appear toward the end.
Topics: shameless self-promotion, politics, elections, presidential race 08, climate, energy (all these topics)

They write stories Coverage of Grist's presidential climate forum	David Roberts	19 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Here's a quick roundup of coverage of Grist's presidential climate forum. If you see other stories, leave them in comments. From MSM: CNN: 'Climate Change Politics' AP: "Edwards, Clinton aim at climate change" The New York Times: 'Democrats Outline Plans to Improve Environment' L.A. Times: 'Democratic candidates buff green credentials' ABC News: "Candidates Talk Climate Change: West Coast Energy Forum Attracts Dem '08ers' FOX News: 'Hillary Clint ...
Topics: presidential race 08, elections, politics, energy, climate (all these topics)

More light, less heat Reflections on Grist's presidential forum on climate change	David Roberts	19 Nov 2007	Gristmill
On Saturday, presidential candidates Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards, and Hillary Clinton gathered in L.A. to discuss climate and energy at a forum co-sponsored by Grist and PRI's Living on Earth. The forum was moderated by Steve Curwood of LoE, with Mary Nichols of the California Air Resources Board and me providing questions. Despite a delay getting started -- Clinton was late arriving -- things went off without a hitch. Well, mostly without a hitch. When Clinton ca ...
Topics: Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, presidential race 08, elections, energy, politics, climate (all these topics)

Success	David Roberts	18 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The Grist presidential forum on climate and energy went off without a hitch and was a huge success. I'll have much more to say about it tomorrow, but for now I just want to thank, again, all the groups that worked to bring it together, the wonder-working production crew at the venue, and the candidates who participated. As for me, the adrenaline from the event has worn off, but the subsequent alcohol intake has not, so I believe I'll go to bed. More later.
Topics: shameless self-promotion, climate, energy, politics, elections, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Anticipation	David Roberts	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill
I'm sitting here at the venue for tomorrow afternoon's event: the Wadsworth Theater. It is ... large. I think around 1500 people are going to be sitting in here tomorrow, judging me for the poor quality of my shoes and my neglected fitness regime. I hear from the organizers that press attention has gotten nuts. There will be many dozens of press folk in the press tent tomorrow, from lots of national media outlets. If you watched the debate last night, you'll have a s ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, Los Angeles, politics, presidential race 08 (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)

Technology alone won't alleviate climate change NYT's Andy Revkin and E. O. Wilson get suckered by Newt Gingrich's phony techno-optimism	Joseph Romm	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Newt Gingrich is an anti-environmentalist who spreads disinformation and has done more than any politician in the last two decades to thwart a sensible climate policy that includes a major clean technology component, as I have explained. Absent serious regulations, no technology-only strategy can possibly avoid catastrophic global warming (as we should have learned in the 1990s). Some well-meaning people, like The New York Times' first-rate climate reporter Andy ...
Topics: books, climate, energy, Newt Gingrich, politics, tech (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner: A friendly spin?	Brian Beutler	15 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA): 'This bill provides billions of dollars for coal. It's like a Manhattan Project for coal.' Noted without comment.
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Wayne Rogers is no Alan Alda Fox News disses Clinton climate plan	Joseph Romm	14 Nov 2007	Gristmill
I suppose no one should be shocked that Fox had a five-against-one (Greenpeace's John Passacantando) panel to savage Hillary Clinton's terrific climate and energy plan. The video is worth watching to see just how much some conservatives hate the strategies that are crucial to avoiding catastrophic global warming: I was surprised to see that Wayne Rogers of MASH fame has morphed into another Fox wacko. He labels Hillary's plan 'idiotic,' calls her a 'crazy pe ...*
Topics: presidential race 08, climate, politics, Hillary Clinton, elections, energy, celebrity (all these topics)

What should I ask the presidential candidates? Leave suggestions in comments	David Roberts	14 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Below you saw the details of Grist's upcoming presidential forum with Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Dennis Kucinich. Each candidate will come out, speak for about 10 minutes about the challenge of climate change, and then answer questions from me and Mary Nichols (of CARB). Naturally I have some questions in mind, but I'd love to hear from you: what do you think I should ask the candidates? Leave your ideas in comments.
Topics: energy, politics, elections, climate, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Don't buy Gingrich's view of environmentalism, or his new book Anti-environment, anti-technology Gingrich tries to rewrite history	Joseph Romm	14 Nov 2007	Gristmill
If you look up the word 'Orwellian' on Wikipedia -- 'An attitude and a policy of control by propaganda, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past' -- there should be a picture of Newt Gingrich's new book, A Contract with the Earth. Instead of wasting time reading a whole book of disinformation, you can just read this interview in Salon, 'Give Newt a chance' -- it is definitely all the Newt that is fit to print. To cut to the chase, readers of ...
Topics: politics, climate, energy, books, Newt Gingrich (all these topics)

Global warming and political will The Lieberman-Warner bill is not strong enough to do the job	Senator Bernie Sanders	14 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Bernie Sanders. As a member of both the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Energy and Natural Resources Committee it is my view that the time is long overdue for Congress to go beyond deal making and 'politics as usual' in addressing the crisis of global warming. The droughts, floods and severe weather disturbances our planet is already experiencing will only get worse, potentially impacting billions of people, if we do ...
Topics: energy, climate, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Global warming and America's energy future Grist to sponsor first presidential candidate climate and energy forum	Grist	14 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Haven't had your fill of the energy and environmental platforms of the presidential candidates? On Sat. November 17 at 2pm PST, Grist will be sponsoring the first-ever candidate forum focusing on the issues of energy policy and climate change, in Los Angeles. It will be webcast live on this page. All major presidential hopefuls were invited; Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich have agreed to attend. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will introduce the evening, ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

Centrist dog food NYT's Andy Revkin pens another stinker on the so-called 'center' of the climate debate	David Roberts	14 Nov 2007	Gristmill
'This wind is extremist!' Andy Revkin has been doing such great stuff on his Dot Earth climate blog, I wanted to ignore the story he published yesterday in the NYT: 'Challenges to Both Left and Right on Global Warming.' Pretend it never happened. But I can't. It's just ... awful. The preposterous claim at the center of the piece is that Newt Gingrich, Bjorn Lomborg, and Shellenberger & Nordhaus represent the "pragmatic center on climate and ener ...
Topics: climate, energy, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner: Senate Environment Committee hearing NRDC says it supports ASCA	Brian Beutler	13 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Forgive the intermittent posting. The live feed is coming and going a bit. It came back in just in time for me to hear David Hawkins say on behalf of the NRDC -- though not on behalf of USCAP -- that the bill's 'emissions reductions in the early years are strong. Toward the end ... we'll need emissions reductions to be stronger than they are.' But, he went on, it 'merits an affirmative vote.
Topics: climate, energy, politics, legislation (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner: Senate Environment Committee hearing Prepared statements of those testifying before the committee	Brian Beutler	13 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Prepared statements, now available: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Ca), Chairman, Committee on the Environment and Public Works David Hawkins, Director, Climate Center, Natural Resources Defense Council Dr. David Greene, Corporate Fellow, Geography and Environmental Engineering, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Robert Baugh, Executive Director, Industrial Union Council, AFL-CIO Andrew Sharkey, President and CEO, American Iron and Steel Institute Donald R. Rowle ...
Topics: climate, energy, politics, legislation (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner: Senate Environment Committee hearing Cardin wants more money for public transit	Brian Beutler	13 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) says he can support the bill if it provides more funds for public transportation, including at the state level.He said this in the context of a response to Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who wants the bill changed to a sector-by-sector (as opposed to economy-wide) cap-and-trade system. Cardin suggested that Senators shouldn't be demanding extraordinary changes to the legislation and threatening to withhold support unless their demands are ...
Topics: climate, energy, politics, legislation, public transportation (all these topics)

Tracking Lieberman-Warner: Senate Environment Committee hearing Tom Carper requests improvements in ASCA	Brian Beutler	13 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Tom Carper (D-Del.) has said he will be able to support the legislation if it: includes provisions to mitigate pollutants like nitrogen oxide and mercury found most widely in the northeastern United States; moves to a more just allocation system -- one that devotes more credits to cleaner energy sources; contains no built-in punishment of early actors, companies that have already begun mitigating their emissions. Not the most ambitious of demands, but there they ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Hear some trains a-comin' Public transit will be necessary for CO2 reductions	Jon Rynn	12 Nov 2007	Gristmill
At the end of October, both New Jersey Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg and, believe it or not, Mississippi Republican Senator Trent Lott, passed their cosponsored bill in the Senate to allocate $1.9 billion per year for six years to expand passenger rail in the U.S. According to Parade magazine (yes, the one that's inserted into Sunday newspapers), the main goal is 'to develop high-speed, short-haul rail corridors modeled on the European city-to-city routes. They could ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, placemaking, politics, public transportation (all these topics)

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