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Lieberman-Warner, new and ... different
Sen. Boxer's summary of her Manager's Amendment to Lieberman-Warner |
David Roberts |
19 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| On Friday, Senate Environment and Public Works Chair Barbara Boxer circulated a document summarizing her 'substitute amendment' to the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. This is likely the version of the bill that will go to the floor. We'll post some analysis of how the bill has changed shortly, but for now, here's Boxer's entire summary (the full bill will likely be released later this week). Let us know what looks notable to you: |
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| Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, legislation, politics (all these topics) |
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Permit auctions: the mark of progressive cap-and-trade
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David Roberts |
19 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I missed this last week, but Kevin Drum is doing God's work explaining the difference between cap-and-auction and cap-and-giveaway to the progressive masses. I did the same thing here, but as usual used way too many words. |
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| Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, legislation, politics (all these topics) |
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Tailpipe tampering
Waxman discloses evidence that White House influenced EPA California waiver |
Frank O'Donnell |
19 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| It's been a matter of extreme controversy since last December, when EPA -- confronted with an impending front-page Washington Post exclusive -- suddenly announced it was denying California's request to enforce its greenhouse gas standards for motor vehicles. After months of dogged investigation, California Rep. Henry Waxman disclosed today that he had evidence that the White House tampered with the decision. The issue is certain to come up tomorrow as EPA Admist ... |
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| Topics: California, climate, jackassery, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Bringing 'round the House
The House is lagging behind the Senate on climate change |
Kate Sheppard |
19 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The Hill is ablaze with discussion of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, which is expected to hit the Senate floor in early June. But on the House side, movement on climate legislation has been slow and quiet. Several bills have been floated, but none have gained any real traction. Everyone is waiting to see what comes out of the Energy and Commerce Committee, where Reps. John Dingell (D-Mich.) and Rick Boucher (D-Va.) are collaborating on bill t ... |
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| Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics) |
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Notable quotable
Limbaugh angry about being smarter than McCain |
David Roberts |
19 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| 'It offends me that a man running for the president of the United States knows 10% of what I know about this. It offends me. In the case of Obama and Hillary, they know what they're spewing is a bunch of BS. They know they're spouting lies. I don't know what McCain is doing here, but if he honestly believes this, then it is offensive. I'm not supposed to be smarter than the guy running for president, neither are you.' -- Radio host Rush Limbaugh, re ... |
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| Topics: climate, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics) |
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Friday night fights
Senate turns back sneak attack from climate action opponents |
Miles Grant |
19 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Opponents of climate action launched a surprise assault last Friday night. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) led an attempt to add an amendment to the budget bill that Congress should hold off on enacting cap-and-trade legislation until China and India take more action. You'd expect Climate Security Act co-sponsors like Virginia's John Warner, Minnesota's Norm Coleman, Maine's Susan Collins, and North Carolina's Elizabeth Dole to oppose the amendment. But then anoth ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics (all these topics) |
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Daily Show on green McCain
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David Roberts |
17 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A man on emission: |
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| Topics: climate, funnies, John McCain, politics (all these topics) |
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Carly Fiorina on McCain
RNC 'Victory Chair' talks about McCain's climate agenda |
Kate Sheppard |
17 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Grist recently caught a few minutes with Carly Fiorina, the 'Victory Chair' of the Republican National Committee. (Quite the title, eh? Apparently it means she's 'the primary advocate for John McCain and the Republican Party' at the RNC.) Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and a former executive at both AT&T and Lucent Technologies, is charged with traveling the country to promote McCain's plans for economic growth and job creation. Grist asked her how ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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'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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Bearly legal
Bush admin to list polar bears as threatened; advocates pledge to continue the fight |
Kate Sheppard |
14 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne was flanked by two large television screens rolling video of polar bears as he discussed his department's decision Wednesday to declare the bears 'threatened.' The video bears -- and the bears in the many photos on display at the press conference -- were fat and happy, wrestling on solid ice floes and devouring the flesh of prey. But environmentalists fear that Interior's decision not to give the bears the stronger 'endangered' design ... |
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| Topics: climate, Department of Interior, Muckraker, news, polar bears, politics (all these topics) |
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Me, on McCain, on climate, on the radio
Talking about where the candidates stand on climate and environmental policy |
Kate Sheppard |
14 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Shameless self-promotion alert: I was on the program 'The Conversation,' which airs on the Seattle NPR affiliate KUOW, last night talking about McCain's climate plan and where the presidential contenders stand on environmental policy. I'm about 10 minutes in, and as you can tell by the smattering of 'uhs' and 'ums,' there's a reason why I'm a writer not a talker. |
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| Topics: climate, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, shameless self-promotion (all these topics) |
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As if!
Will McCain bring conservatives with him on climate? |
Joseph Romm |
14 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A President McCain would have no magic wand to get conservatives to join a cause they simply don't believe in, much as he wasn't able to get them to join the cause for his McCain-Lieberman climate bill. As E&E News ($ub. req'd) reports today:Several key Capitol Hill Republicans stood defiant yesterday against the types of changes to U.S. global warming policy spelled out earlier this week by presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain ... 'I'm going to ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, legislation, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Threat Laid Bear
Polar bears threatened, but drilling in their habitat still OK, says Interior |
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14 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 11:47 AM on 14 May 2008 Polar bears are a threatened species, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced Wednesday -- but that doesn't mean we can't drill in their habitat! The "threatened" designation means the bear could become endangered if conservation steps aren't taken; it puts polar bears on the endangered-species list but in effect allows Interior to pick and choose which ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Department of Interior, endangered species, news, polar bears, politics, progress (all these topics) |
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Loaded for bear?
Polar bear decision expected today from Bush administration |
Miles Grant |
14 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| This just in from Associated Press: The Interior Department has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday to announce a decision on whether to list the polar bear as threatened and in need of protection under the Endangered Species Act.Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne proposed such protection 15 months ago because of the disappearance of Arctic sea ice, which is a primary habitat for the bear. Last September, scientists said up to two-thirds of the polar bears could d ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, climate, endangered species, habitat loss, legislation, polar bears, politics (all these topics) |
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Crooked talk
McCain's gas-tax holiday plan is at odds with his new climate strategy |
Guest author |
13 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The following is a guest essay from Lee Wasserman, director of the Rockefeller Family Fund. (Affiliation provided for identification purposes only; the views expressed are those of the writer only.) ----- Sen. John McCain made a climate speech Monday in which he argued that doing something about climate change is a 'test of foresight, of political courage, and of the unselfish concern that one generation owes to the next.' His timing is curious. 'Ignore that man beh ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, gas prices, John McCain, politics (all these topics) |
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Nukes to me
More on the nuclear portion of McCain's big climate speech |
Kate Sheppard |
13 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| What's the deal with John McCain's nuclear love affair? It's a question on many people's minds after the candidate's big climate speech yesterday. While McCain has argued repeatedly that he's opposed to subsidies for the nuclear industry, he stresses the need to support the nuclear industry and fund nuclear R&D. The most recent incarnation of his Climate Stewardship Act, introduced in January 2007, would authorize more than $3.7 billion in federal subsidies fo ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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McCain's answers
A Q&A on John McCain's climate platform, issued by his campaign |
David Roberts |
13 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The following is a Q&A on John McCain's climate platform, released on Monday by the McCain campaign. I'm posting it here because it gets into more detail than any other published material I've seen. ----- Q&A: John McCain's Climate Platform How does cap-and-trade work? Cap-and-trade is a mechanism that would set a limit on greenhouse-gas emissions (GHG) and create permits or rights to emit equal to the limit on GHG emissions. Entities that are ... |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate equity, John McCain, national security, politics (all these topics) |
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McCain's offsets
What would the use of carbon offsets mean for McCain's climate policy? |
David Roberts |
13 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| To me the most striking element of McCain's just-released carbon cap-and-trade plan is that it would, at least at the outset, allow regulated entities to achieve 100 percent of their emission reductions through the purchase of domestic or international offsets. By way of comparison, the Lieberman-Warner climate bill headed for the floor of the Senate caps the contribution of offsets at 15 percent, and requires that all the offsets be from domestic projects. This is a ... |
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| Topics: carbon offsets, carbon trading, climate, John McCain, politics (all these topics) |
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BRIC douse
McCain waters down language on climate dealings with China & India |
Kate Sheppard |
12 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The original text of John McCain's Monday climate speech raised the specter of economic penalties for developing countries if they don't join international climate efforts, but the candidate dropped that reference when actually delivering the address. As the Associated Press puts it: The GOP presidential contender ... prodded China and India -- two major emitters of the greenhouse gases blamed for the planet's warming -- to join the effort, although he muted planne ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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More Kentucky coal pandering
Obama airs new coal-themed TV ad; Clinton talks up coal too |
Kate Sheppard |
12 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The Obama campaign is running TV ads in Kentucky touting the candidate's commitment to the coal industry, along the same lines as a flyer the campaign is sending out in the state: 'He came to southern Illinois and seen the devastation and the loss of the jobs in this coal industry,' says miner Randy Henry in the ads, which are appearing in the Lexington and Bowling Green television markets. 'Washington, D.C., is not listening to us. Barack understands it.' Th ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, climate, coal, energy, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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McCain speech reactions
Enviros respond to McCain's new climate plan |
Kate Sheppard |
12 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| John McCain unveiled his plans to address global warming in a speech Monday afternoon in Portland, Ore. The candidate called climate change a 'test of foresight, of political courage, and of the unselfish concern that one generation owes to the next,' and called for a cap-and-trade system to drastically reduce the country's greenhouse-gas emissions. John McCain. Photo: Matthew Chastain Wright 'Whether we call it 'climate change' or 'global warming,' in the ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Speech, speech
Text of McCain climate speech |
Grist |
12 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Here's text of the climate speech GOP presidential candidate John McCain gave today in Portland, Ore., his most major address on the issue to date. ----- Thank you all very much. I appreciate the hospitality of Vestas Wind Technology. Today is a kind of test run for the company. They've got wind technicians here, wind studies, and all these wind turbines, but there's no wind. So now I know why they asked me to come give a speech. Every day, when there are no reporters a ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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'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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, messaging, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: carbon trading, climate, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Green Old Party?
McCain to unveil new climate plan |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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