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Tonight's climate-less Democratic debate: Brought to you on behalf of ABEC	David Roberts	31 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I looked through the transcript, and as far as I can tell there wasn't a single question about climate change in tonight's Democratic debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. This is the fourth CNN debate sponsored by coal front group Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC). Not one of the four has contained a question on climate.
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Florida primary	David Roberts	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill
CNN has projected McCain the winner. With 62% of precincts reporting, McCain is ahead of Romney 36% to 32%, with Giuliani's presidential aspirations going up in smoke, or rather, going up in a 15% debacle. More later.UPDATE: Final is 36-31. It's a Romney/McCain race and McCain is the prohibitive favorite. He's now the yardstick against which to measure a Dem candidate. UPDATE: Giuliani's going to drop out and endorse McCain. Yay war! UPDATE: Ex-Grister Kate Sheppard ...
Topics: elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mitt Romney, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Change we can believe in? What does the 2005 energy bill vote say about Obama?	David Roberts	24 Jan 2008	Gristmill
It's conventional wisdom that Clinton and Obama are fairly close on policy, so the choice between them will come down to "character" and theories of change. While I think that's broadly accurate, there are some differences in their voting records, and recently Elana Schorr took a close look at them to find where the candidates had made different decisions. One of the few matters of real consequence (other than the war) was the 2005 energy bill, ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, Hillary Clinton, legislation, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

It's the Green Economy, Stupid At Dem debate, candidates agree on green jobs, fight over everything else		21 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 9:10 PM on 21 Jan 2008 Photo: AP/Mary Ann Chastain At the acrimonious Democratic presidential debate on Monday night, the three leading candidates bickered over a whole range of issues, but they all agreed on one thing: the need to invest in creating green-collar jobs. The CNN moderators didn't ask any questions about the environment, but Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, green jobs, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

She'll Be Comin' Down on the Mountain Clinton and Romney win in Nevada; McCain wins in South Carolina		19 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:21 PM on 19 Jan 2008 Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama to win the Democratic caucuses in Nevada on Saturday, getting 51 percent of the vote compared to Obama's 45 (and John Edwards' dismal 4). The economy was the top concern among Nevada voters surveyed, but the environment may have played a role too. Clinton tried to gain an edge in the state by touting her pledge to shut down th ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Hear You Loud and Nuclear Hillary Clinton brings an environmental issue to the fore in Nevada		17 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 3:14 PM on 17 Jan 2008 Hillary Clinton is taking pains to make sure all Nevadans know her views on -- gasp! -- an environmental issue: She would stop plans to store nuclear waste at the state's Yucca Mountain repository. "This is not just, 'We're in Nevada, so we'll talk about an issue Nevadans care about,'" Clinton assured voters. "This is an American issue." Yucca Mounta ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, Hillary Clinton, Nevada, news, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Comin' Round the Mountain Leading Dem candidates talk nuclear power at Nevada debate		16 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:18 PM on 16 Jan 2008 The three leading Democratic presidential candidates came together in Nevada last night for yet another debate. Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama all wooed Nevada voters by voicing opposition to the Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository, with Edwards taking his opposition a step further and coming out against all new nuclear construction. The highest drama came b ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Dennis Kucinich, elections, energy, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Nevada, news, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Tabling the presidential discussion, part I: Follow the money How Obama and Clinton stack up on food and ag	Tom Philpott	10 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Now that the Democratic campaign has narrowed to two clear front-runners -- each of whom has managed a surprise victory over the other in a major primary -- the time has come to take a look at how they stack up on food and ag policy.If elected, would these prospective presidents kowtow to Big Food interests -- or work to rebuild local and regional food systems? To gain insight, over several posts I'll compare and contrast Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on three fr ...
Topics: agriculture, Barack Obama, elections, food, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Granite State Update Clinton and McCain win New Hampshire primaries, attract green voters		09 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 10:42 AM on 09 Jan 2008 Unseasonably warm weather brought out a record number of voters in New Hampshire's primary on Tuesday -- and is it mere coincidence that the majority of them voted for candidates with real plans to tackle climate change? Well, OK, probably yes. Hillary Clinton was the victor on the Democratic side; she's got a strong platform on climate and clean energy (though her main Dem ...
Topics: climate, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, New Hampshire, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Highway to Hill Clinton wins Democratic primary in New Hampshire		08 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 8:02 PM on 08 Jan 2008 Hillary Clinton won New Hampshire's Democratic primary, beating Barack Obama by a slim margin and John Edwards by a sizeable one. Clinton has a strong, comprehensive climate and energy plan -- but then again, so do her Democratic competitors. Check out Grist's interview with Clinton and fact sheet on Clinton to get the full scoop on her environmental platform and record. ...
Topics: elections, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

New Hampshire results McCain and Clinton win	David Roberts	08 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I go get my hair cut and look what happens. McCain has won the NH primary with 37 percent to Romney's 30 percent. That's roughly what was expected.The huge news, though, is that Clinton is ahead, with 39 percent to Obama's 36 percent.If Clinton pulls out a win in NH it's going to flip the entire campaign narrative yet again, demonstrating that pundits don't know sht and voters know how to make up their own minds. UPDATE: NPR has called it for Clinton, 39-36. Edwar ...*
Topics: elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, New Hampshire, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

False hopes Are Obama and Edwards promising ponies?	David Roberts	08 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Hillary Clinton is getting in lots of trouble for some recent comments, but I suspect that while her message is politically doomed, there's some truth to it. Some background: At the debate, Clinton said that candidates shouldn't be creating "false hopes" among the American people. After the debate, Obama commented that that was like MLK, Jr., mounting the steps of the capitol and saying, "sorry guys, false hope. The dream will die." Then, today, in ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Hillary's poisonous NH cloud Clinton lobbied for tire burning near Granite State	Glenn Hurowitz	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
With the New Hampshire primaries approaching, I thought I'd share this article about how Hillary Clinton's political style has directly affected New Hampshire voters in a way that might shed light on the kind of president she would be. The article was co-written with Friends of the Earth Action president Brent Blackwelder. ----- New Hampshire has for decades struggled to keep its air clean. But during 2005 and 2006, Hillary Clinton's ambitions collided with ...
Topics: air pollution, elections, Hillary Clinton, logging, New Hampshire, politics, presidential race 08, toxics (all these topics)

Moving money in the economy More on climate policy in the Dem debate	David Roberts	06 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Responding to some of the comments on Dot Earth: Obama is right that a cap-and-trade program with 100 percent auctioned permits would be the functional equivalent of a carbon tax. Yes that does, in Richardson's rather daft phrase, "take money out of the economy," in the sense that any tax does. Happily, the other half of Obama's plan is to plow the money right back into the economy, reducing the financial hit on the working class, supporting renewable energ ...
Topics: Barack Obama, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, economy, elections, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Clinton v. Obama on energy Clinton hangs 2005 energy bill around Obama's neck	David Roberts	06 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Quite interesting that Clinton went after Obama specifically on energy tonight: You know, the energy bill that passed in 2005 was larded with all kinds of special interest breaks, giveaways to the oil companies. Senator Obama voted for it. I did not because I knew that it was going to be an absolute nightmare. Now we're all out on the campaign trail talking about taking the tax subsidies away from the oil companies, some of which were in that 2005 energy bill ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, Hillary Clinton, legislation, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The Dem primary endgame The candidacy is Obama's to lose	David Roberts	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill
One hesitates to predict anything in a race this mercurial. But I think it's Obama's to lose at this point. Hillary's pitch was always "experience" and (left unstated) inevitability. It was never the experience that made her inevitable, though. It was something more like Dem voters' loss aversion. She has always been the Establishment Dem -- the known quantity. She didn't inspire people, but she was a safe pick, a model voters understand. She could get to ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, Iowa, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Iowa called Huckabee and Obama have it	David Roberts	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Sounds like they've called the Iowa caucuses. Huckabee's the huge winner on the R side, with Romney an anemic second. Obama got a very narrow win on the D side (35%), with Edwards and Clinton effectively tied for second with 31%. Interestinger and interestinger. UPDATE: OK, the final looks like 37% Obama, 30% Edwards, and 29% Clinton. Clinton only won a single age group: 65+ Obama overwhelmingly won the under-30 crowd, which turned out in record numbers. The tota ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, Iowa, Mike Huckabee, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

John ... I am your father! Darth Nader endorses Edwards instead of Green Party candidate	David Roberts	02 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Ralph Nader's endorsement of Edwards sure sounds more like an undorsement of Clinton. Questions: Is Nader's endorsal opposition to Clinton more irrelevant to her chances than another Nader presidential run would be, or the same amount of irrelevant? Will this cause Edwards to lose support, as Dem primary voters deploy the sensible heuristic that the opposite direction from Nader's political instincts is the best way to go? Is Cynthia McKinney pissed about ...
Topics: elections, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Hillary Clinton frets publicly about CAFOs What must the 'Rural Americans for Hillary' think of this?	Tom Philpott	14 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Days after naming a high-profile champion of factory-style animal farms as co-chair of "Rural Americans for Hillary," Hillary Clinton backtracked a little yesterday. She expressed wan and tepid concern about the environmental and social effects of concentrated-animal feedlot operations (CAFOs). She told the Des Moines Register she would support "local control" over how CAFOs are regulated -- meaning that states and counties would be able to instit ...
Topics: industrial ag, agriculture, politics, elections, presidential race 08, Hillary Clinton, Iowa (all these topics)

Hillary and Big Meat HRC taps a CAFO champion as co-chair of Rural Americans for Hillary	Tom Philpott	11 Dec 2007	Gristmill
"A lot of pig shit is one thing; a lot of highly toxic pig shit is another. The excrement of Smithfield hogs is hardly even pig shit: On a continuum of pollutants, it is probably closer to radioactive waste than to organic manure. The reason it is so toxic is Smithfield's efficiency. The company produces 6 billion pounds of packaged pork each year. That's a remarkable achievement, a prolifigacy unimagined only two decades ago, and the only way to do it is to raise ...
Topics: agriculture, elections, food, Hillary Clinton, industrial ag, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Hostage situation in Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire campaign office	David Roberts	30 Nov 2007	Gristmill
CNN has the latest. UPDATE: Just heard on WMUR that the man inside is demanding to speak to Clinton. UPDATE: Two hostages have been released, and according to WMUR, that's everyone -- apparently only the armed man himself remains inside. UPDATE: CNN is reporting that two hostages remain in the building UPDATE: The hostage taker has been arrested. No one was hurt. Glad that's over.
Topics: elections, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Robert's Rules RFK Jr. endorses Hillary Clinton for prez		30 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:50 PM on 30 Nov 2007 Erstwhile earth-protector Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton for president. Effused Kennedy, "Hillary Clinton has the strength and experience to ... reverse the potentially devastating effects of global warming." With her bare hands! source:� Associated Press From the Archives Crop Phooey. Pesticide use on crops drops in California, but fumigant use ...
Topics: elections, Hillary Clinton, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Robert Kennedy Jr. ...	David Roberts	30 Nov 2007	Gristmill
... has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. Wonder how Clinton feels about Cape Wind?
Topics: presidential race 08, politics, elections, Hillary Clinton (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)

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)

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