Grist | Topics | 1378 Results

RESULTS		Results 226 – 250 of 1378
Page:1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 56
Headline	Author	Published	Section
'There's a better way' New McCain climate ad aimed at independent voters	Kate Sheppard	12 May 2008	Gristmill
John McCain released a new television advertisement today to accompany his big climate policy speech in Portland, Ore., this afternoon. Here's the ad: The ad illustrates McCain's attempts to appeal to independents; climate change is a key area where he believes he can make inroads with voters outside the Republican party. Note these lines in particular: 'One extreme thinks high taxes and crippling regulation is the solution. Another denies the problem even exis ...
Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, messaging, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain's climate plan Republican candidate's climate proposals better than expected but still behind the curve	David Roberts	11 May 2008	Gristmill
On Monday, John McCain will deliver a speech on climate change from Portland, Oregon. In it he will lay out the framework for climate policy under a McCain administration. After a primary spent shoring up his credentials among the Republican base, this is the beginning of his general election strategy: Operation I'm Not Bush. (One important note: the speech is not on energy. McCain will be delivering a major speech on energy in a few weeks, probably early June, wherei ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Green Old Party? McCain to unveil new climate plan		11 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:32 PM on 11 May 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain is slated to unveil his plans to address global warming in a speech Monday afternoon in Portland, Ore., where he'll call climate change a "test of foresight, of political courage, and of the unselfish concern that one generation owes to the next." McCain will lay out a series of goals for gradually reducing carbon emissions to 60 percent below 1990 levels by the y ...
Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, news, 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)

The deniers are winning, especially with the GOP Fewer Republicans saying earth is warming	Joseph Romm	11 May 2008	Gristmill
The science is clear about the reality of global warming and the fact that humans are the dominant cause. But, sadly, that isn't clear to most Republicans. Anybody who thinks the public debate is over -- anybody who thinks the Big Lie doesn't work -- should look at the latest poll results from the Pew Research Center:The proportion of Americans who say that the earth is getting warmer has decreased modestly since January 2007, mostly because of a decline among Republi ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, politics (all these topics)

Emetic Justice Polar-bear listing would hurt the poor, says industry		09 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:10 PM on 09 May 2008 If the U.S. Interior Department decides that polar bears are endangered, litigation will be immediate from a group arguing that bear protection will "result in higher energy prices across the board, which will disproportionately be borne by minorities." So says Roy Innis, chair of the Congress for Racial Equality -- a recipient of Exxon funding that has recently aligned itself with ac ...
Topics: climate, endangered species, environmental justice, insanity, litigation, news, polar bears, politics (all these topics)

Gearing up for an eco-week McCain kicks off series of environmental events with address in N.J.	Kate Sheppard	09 May 2008	Gristmill
John McCain gave a campaign speech in New Jersey today in which he touched on environmental issues and talked up his record in that area. 'There is no doubt our environment is globally challenged,' McCain said in a stop at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J. 'I'm proud of my environmental record.' But as some enviros in the state were quick to point out, that record is mixed at best (take, for example, his lifetime League of Conservation Voters score of ...
Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

War and Peeves U.S. fails to be climate leader because of war, says Obama		09 May 2008	News
Posted at 7:53 AM on 09 May 2008 The war in Iraq is one reason the U.S. is such an environmental laggard, Barack Obama said in a CNN interview Thursday. "I think the way we have run this war in Iraq has ... led us to ignore the critical needs for us to focus on a sound energy policy in this country," Obama told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "It has left us unable to lead on critical global issues like global warming. ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, energy, news, politics, presidential race 08, TV (all these topics)

Cause of death: apathy Lieberman-Warner moved from critical condition to the morgue	Joseph Romm	08 May 2008	Gristmill
The fading hopes for the Lieberman-Warner climate bill have all but ended (see E&E News, 'Sponsors lower expectations for Lieberman-Warner bill,' $ub. req'd, reprinted below). Serious climate legislation had been in critical condition for some months (see 'Boucher lets conservatives block House climate bill' and 'Don't hold your breath on Lieberman-Warner passing in 2008.'). Doctors and family members finally pulled the plug this week, and the patient appeared to ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, legislation, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

A national environmental policy? New paper demands consideration of global warming in federal policy decisions	Joseph Romm	08 May 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Kari Manlove, fellows assistant at the Center for American Progress. ----- The fact that our country has a National Environmental Policy Act means we should have a national environmental policy, and any national environmental policy is bound to take into consideration global warming, right? Wrong on two counts. The U.S. is sorely lacking an updated environmental policy. It's been over a decade and counting. With the E ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Alas, Alaska Alaska legislature looking for polar-bear skeptics		07 May 2008	News
Posted at 11:32 AM on 07 May 2008 The Alaska legislature wants to use $2 million in state money to fund an "academic based" conference to highlight the views of scientists who don't think the polar bear should be put on the endangered-species list. The U.S. Interior Department must make a decision by May 15 on whether polar bears are a threatened or endangered species, and "[w]e want to have the money to hire scientis ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change skepticism, dumbassery , endangered species, news, polar bears, politics, state politics (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)

We Will Connecticut You Now Connecticut goes big with emissions-reducing goals		06 May 2008	News
Posted at 1:50 PM on 06 May 2008 The Connecticut senate has unanimously passed a bill aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, becoming the fifth state to pass such legislation (after California, Hawaii, New Jersey, and Washington). The bill would require Connecticut to reduce emissions 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 percent below 2001 levels by 2050. If, as expected, Gov. Jodi Rell (R) signs it into ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Connecticut, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, politics, progress, state politics (all these topics)

From My Coal-Dead Kans. Veto override fails in Kansas; embattled coal plants remain dead		02 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:57 AM on 02 May 2008 Two new coal-fired power plants will not be built in western Kansas due to a failed attempt to override the governor's veto. The coal-plant saga began when a state environment official last year rejected Sunflower Energy's permit to build the new plants -- the first such rejection in the U.S. on the basis of carbon dioxide emissions. State legislators who had backed the plan ...
Topics: climate, coal, Kansas, news, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Create a diversion Diverting war spending to green investments is both politically possible and neccesary	Gar Lipow	02 May 2008	Gristmill
Is it possible to divert war spending into green investment? (David is skeptical.) The current military budget for fiscal year 2008 is around 650 billion dollars, not including supplemental requests, which so far have been made every year since the Iraq war started. That $700 billion-plus total compares to the around $400 billion of military spending in 2001. Given the current unpopularity of the Iraq war, would it really be politically impossible to gain public support f ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Climate poll	David Roberts	01 May 2008	Gristmill
Via E&E ($ub. req'd), a new Harris poll found that "66 percent of respondents say it is important for the president to have a policy on climate change and 63 percent say the president should take action soon after taking office to address the issue." Who do they think would do a better job on climate? When asked which of the remaining presidential candidates they believe has the strongest policy, 49 percent said they did not yet know, 22 percent picke ...
Topics: politics, presidential race 08, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Carbon policy dilemma, 3 Trading efficiency for inevitability	David Roberts	30 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This is the third in a series; see parts one and two. To briefly recap: Simplicity, efficiency, and political buy-in are important elements of climate policy, but if you want the first, you can only get one of the other two. Peter Barnes' cap-and-dividend proposal gets simplicity and political buy-in; Sean Casten's output-based standards get simplicity and efficiency. Which should we prefer? The answer depends in part on how you think about climate policy, ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon tax, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

The fossil bloc makes its play New Senate alternatives to L-W would take climate policy backwards -- way backwards	David Roberts	29 Apr 2008	Gristmill
George Voinovich. There's an important story in yesterday's edition of E&E (as always, $ub. req'd) about two alternatives to Lieberman-Warner that have recently been floated in the Senate. One comes from Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) and the other -- not so much a bill as a 'set of principles' -- from a coalition of the nation's biggest and dirtiest coal companies. Together they serve as an excellent primer on the conservative movement's latest approac ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Details matter: Winner-picking and social engineering Lieberman Warner criticism, Part 3	Sean Casten	29 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This is the third in a five-part series exploring the details of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. See also part 1 and part 2. Let's do a thought experiment. Imagine that tomorrow morning, you wake up, reach in your pocket, and find that you suddenly have billions of dollars of cash. Before you have a moment to celebrate, you also realize that you are lying in the middle of an interstate, and there is a big truck coming. What do you do? (a) Issue an RFP ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

May of Reckoning Polar-bear listing decision must be made by May 15, says judge		29 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 9:55 AM on 29 Apr 2008 The last time we checked in with the laggardly Interior Department, it was saying it needed until June 30 to decide whether to place polar bears on the endangered-species list. But the department had better find its Decider Pants soon, as a federal judge has sided with green groups to impose a new deadline of May 15. "Other than the general complexity of finalizing the rule, def ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Department of Interior, endangered species, litigation, news, polar bears, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Me on a podcast	David Roberts	29 Apr 2008	Gristmill
I am on this week's podcast from PolticalAffairs.net. I'll confess when the PA guy called me I didn't know it was a record of 'Marxist thought online,' but hey, let a thousand flowers bloom. As it happens I was talking about a market-based carbon policy, kind of an odd subject for a Marxist podcast, but it was fun. If you listen closely, you can hear me stirring my lunch on the stove as I talk. Multitasking might explain why I was talking so damn slowly. It sounds like ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, regulation, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

Carbon policy dilemma, 2 Two simple, effective, and diametrically opposed climate policy proposals	David Roberts	29 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This is the second in a series; see part one. I said in my previous post that of the three goals of climate policy -- simplicity, political buy-in, and efficiency -- it is possible to get only two at once. You can get simplicity and buy-in. You can get simplicity and efficiency. But when you start trying to get buy-in and efficiency together, you lose simplicity (see: Lieberman-Warner). I'll describe two proposals, one of which focuses on buy-in and one on efficienc ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon tax, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Carbon policy dilemma, 1 You can't achieve the three goals of climate policy at once	David Roberts	28 Apr 2008	Gristmill
I've been thinking about carbon policy lately (shocker, I know), prompted by recent interactions with Monica Prasad, Peter Barnes, and our own Sean Casten. The more I think about it, the more one of the central tensions becomes clear to me. Here are three goals for good climate legislation: Simplicity: The bill should not be hundreds of pages long, packed with addenda, loopholes, provisos, and over-specifications. Complexity boxes out ordinary citizens and insure ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, coal, energy, legislation, messaging, politics (all these topics)

The thing you really never hear	David Roberts	27 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This column from Newsweek editor Evan Thomas is largely a witless recitation of conventional wisdom, but it does raise one point I want to make. It seems to me that every mainstream media figure in the world is out there saying a) tackling global warming is going to be horrendously expensive, involving great sacrifice and hardship on the part of ordinary families, and b) no one else has the courage to say A. But obviously everybody has the courage to say it. It's c ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Details matter: Small sticks and no carrots Lieberman-Warner criticism, Part 2	Sean Casten	25 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This is the second in a five-part series exploring the details of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. See part 1 here. With atmospheric GHG concentrations rising at a frightening rate, we need a full court press to change directions, using every possible tool at our disposal. From an economic perspective, this means that we not only need to impose financial penalties on polluters, but also provide financial incentives for those who act to lower GHG emissions. ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Page:1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 56		Results 226 – 250 of 1378

Stories About: climate AND politics