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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)

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)

Why a climate bill in 2008? Part II Delay makes environmental catastrophe more likely	Tony Kreindler	14 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This is the second in a series; the first is here. We've covered two reasons Environmental Defense is pushing for passage of climate legislation in 2008 -- the politics will be very much the same in 2009, and we don't want to gamble away a good bill on the chance of a perfect one someday. Today I'll look at a third reason: The price of waiting, even a year or two, is simply too high. Carbon dioxide concentrations are higher today than they've been in 6 ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Get it right the first time Carl Pope of the Sierra Club lays out a blueprint for an effective climate bill	Guest author	14 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. ----- There are moments when a choice of pathways shapes the future -- and makes success either feasible or impossible. In light of the fact that all of the remaining leading presidential candidates call for some kind of action on global warming, and the Lieberman-Warner bill is already working its way through the Senate, almost everyone recognizes that sometime in the n ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, environmental movement, legislation, politics (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)

Welcoming our new efficiency overlords Have you been naughty with your light bulbs? You need some good old command and control.	Adam Stein	11 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The so-called incandescent light bulb ban (not actually a ban) included as part of the recent energy bill has prompted a low-level but consistent set of complaints that deserve further consideration, because they betray a fair amount of confusion about which policy tools to break out for which issues. On the right, the reaction to the new lighting efficiency standard has ranged from hysterical whining to hysterical snark. But even on the left, it's fairly common to run ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, energy, energy efficiency, legislation, politics (all these topics)

'Fix it or ditch it'	David Roberts	08 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Here's the new TV ad from Friends of the Earth, telling Senate Democrats to 'fix or ditch' the Lieberman-Warner climate bill:
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	08 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'The [Lieberman-Warner] bill, as reported out of committee, would be the most historic incentive for nuclear in the history of the United States.' -- an aide to Sen. Joe Lieberman
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, nuclear power, politics, quotables (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)

Biofuels bombshell Researchers find corn ethanol, switchgrass could worsen global warming	Frank O'Donnell	07 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Some very respected researchers today have lobbed a real bombshell into the energy public policy world: they have concluded that ethanol produced both by corn and switchgrass could worsen global warming. In other words, Congress really blew it last year when it mandated a massive increase in biofuels (an action coated with green language but really an effort by both political parties to cater to farm states). This is also a slap at President Bush's effort to pa ...
Topics: biofuels, climate, energy, ethanol, politics (all these topics)

Cap-and-trade and fairness for working families A second opportunity to make climate pricing fair	Alan Durning	07 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Climate policy offers an enormous opportunity not only to undo our fossil-fuel addiction and build a stable energy future, but also to reverse the natural unfairness of climate change itself. I've said it before: energy prices are going up no matter what, with or without climate policy. But smart policy can turn rising costs into broadly shared benefits. It can shield working families, fund a shift to a clean future of new technologies, compact communities, and a tr ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

Bush: the uncompassionate, anti-technology president Dubious 2009 energy budget released	Joseph Romm	05 Feb 2008	Gristmill
On the heels of giving away the (decorative) centerpiece of his climate technology effort, NeverGen FutureGen, Bush released a heartless and mindless FY09 energy budget yesterday. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, sent around an email on the President's Budget Request for FY2009 (I will post budget details later). Bingaman is 'pleased to see overall growth in the DOE budget, particularly in the area of basi ...
Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, politics, tech (all these topics)

Tapper: still a hack; Clinton: still smart	David Roberts	01 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Andy Revkin has a Dot Earth post today that reflects on Jake Tapper's hackery and, in my humble opinion, lets Tapper off way too easily. Look at this: For his part, Mr. Tapper posted a series of updates through Thursday clarifying his intent, saying he found Mr. Clinton's speech confusing and was posing questions more than offering criticisms. And his main point, he told me over the phone late last night, was to examine whether Mr. Clinton was portraying efforts ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (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)

Flipflopping on FutureGen Bush drops mismanaged 'NeverGen' clean coal project	Joseph Romm	31 Jan 2008	Gristmill
For those remaining seven or eight three or four people who still buy the Bush rhetoric that he cares about global warming and is committed to addressing the problem with new technology, Exhibit 435C for the prosecution is the just-canceled 'clean coal' project called FutureGen. [Amusing anecdote for FHA (Future Historians of America): I once had a boss at the U.S. Department of Energy who practiced repeating 'clean coal' in front of a mirror so as not to break out ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, coal, energy, politics (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)

Barbara Boxer is on the hunt ...	David Roberts	30 Jan 2008	Gristmill
... for 60 votes (sub rqd) to overcome the inevitable filibuster of Lieberman-Warner. Meanwhile, Friends of the Earth -- the only green group to come out against L-W early and consistently -- has launched a 'fix it or ditch' campaign on the bill. It's running print ads in The Hill and Roll Call. Frankly, I don't see any scenario in which the L-W bill is 'fixed' during this session of Congress. Everything Boxer's going to have to do to get the votes is going to make a ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Answering the college Focus the Nation events to heat up campuses across the U.S.	Todd Hymas Samkara	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Focus the Nation, a series of climate-change-focused educational events on over 1,000 campuses across the United States, is basically the student-centered cousin of Step It Up. And if you were one of the thousands who attended SIU (or SIU 2), you know that raising climate consciousness doesn't have to be a drab affair. It can be a colorful, creative, youth-infused party of a time. Enter Focus the Nation. Hoping to pick up where SIU left off, Focu ...
Topics: campus activism, climate, education, energy, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Republican primary in Florida	David Roberts	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill
In case you hadn't heard, there's a Republican primary in Florida today. It has largely come down to a Romney/McCain contest, the polls have been bouncing all over the place, it's utterly impossible to predict what will happen, and it's likely that whoever wins -- particularly if it's a sizeable win -- will secure the Republican nomination. So it's a big deal. Naturally I won't/can't endorse anyone, but just considering things from the generic green voter's perspectiv ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, Florida, John McCain, Mitt Romney, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Why a climate bill in 2008? Part I On letting the perfect be the enemy of good climate legislation	Tony Kreindler	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill
David Roberts has argued for waiting until 2009 to pass a climate bill. Environmental Defense is pushing hard for a bill this year, and I appreciate his invitation to explain why. We agree that the political landscape in 2009 will be much like today's as far as climate change legislation goes: we'll have the same interest groups, a similar Senate line-up, and a crowded national agenda that threatens to divert politicians' attention. David outlined these c ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, legislation, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Fact checking the union: Clean energy and global warming A closer look at the SOTU's energy claims	Representative Ed Markey	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Last night, as President Bush stepped to the well of the House floor to deliver his final State of the Union address, at least one thing was clear -- this president is a big fan of recycling. Unfortunately, I am not talking about the plastics and glass in my bottle bill, but the retooling of old rhetoric on global warming and our energy future. Here is my attempt to inject a little reality into the old Bush rhetoric rolled out in the State of the Un ...
Topics: climate, energy, politics (all these topics)

Robust SOTU debunkery	David Roberts	28 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Wow, if you want a full-meal-deal debunking of the SOTU, point your browser over to ThinkProgress. They're dismantling the poor thing line by line. There's the section on energy: Bush said: "Let us fund new technologies that can generate coal power while capturing carbon emissions. Let us increase the use of renewable power and emissions-free nuclear power. Let us continue investing in advanced battery technology and renewable fuels to power the cars and tr ...
Topics: climate, energy, politics (all these topics)

Auctioneering An account of a House hearing on auctioning permits under cap-and-trade	David Roberts	28 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Last Wednesday, the House Global Warming Committee held a hearing on "auctions and revenue recycling in cap and trade," which took a close look at the advantages of auctioning (rather than giving away) pollution permits under a cap and trade system, and what might be done with the revenue. I didn't manage to watch the hearing, but as always it has been ably summarized by the mysteriously monickered The Cunctator, publisher and editor of Hill Heat. If you're ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

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