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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on CNBC's Kudlow & Company McCain's veep pick talks energy, ANWR, and the improbability of being tapped for VP	Sara Barz	29 Aug 2008	Gristmill
During a June 25, 2008, appearance on CNBC's Kudlow & Company, Sarah Palin said, "Sen. McCain is wrong" on the issue of oil drilling. She said, "I think he's going to evolve into eventually supporting ANWR opening also ... I'd like the opportunity to change his mind about ANWR." She was also asked about the possibility of being chosen as McCain's running mate and said, "it's really probably out of the realm of possibility to be tapped ...
Topics: interview, Arctic Refuge, Alaska, energy, Sarah Palin, John McCain, presidential race 08, elections, politics, video (all these topics)

Voters' Voices: Virginia II Talking with voters in central Virginia about the environment and the election	Melinda Henneberger	29 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This is part of a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the environment and the election. Stanardsville, Va. -- A harvest moon is rising over the cornfields on the last night of the Greene County Fair, just hours before the carnival rides are packed up and the local politicos break down the vast GOP tent, where yard signs and balloons are being handed out, and the much smaller ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, Virginia, Voters Voices (all these topics)

Palin around The eco-rundown on Alaska guv Sarah Palin, John McCain's veep pick	Grist	29 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Last updated 10:29 a.m. PDT GOP presidential candidate John McCain today announced that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be his running mate in the race against Barack Obama and Joe Biden. McCain's official announcement of his veep pick declares, 'Governor Palin has challenged the influence of the big oil companies while fighting for the development of new energy resources. She leads a state that matters to every one of us -- Alaska has significant energy resources ...
Topics: Alaska, Sarah Palin, John McCain, elections, presidential race 08, politics (all these topics)

Palin Around The eco-rundown on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain's VP pick		29 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 8:14 AM on 29 Aug 2008 In a surprise move this morning, John McCain chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. Palin, a conservative Republican, was the ethics commissioner of the Alaska Gas and Oil Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004 and has a reputation for integrity and fighting corruption. She has pushed to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling and to build a natural-gas pip ...
Topics: Alaska, elections, John McCain, news, politics, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin (all these topics)

What is the carbon footprint of McCain's countless homes? McCain's carbon dioxide bill is about 10 times the average American's	Joseph Romm	22 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I'd estimate it's about 150 tons of carbon dioxide, some 10 times that of the average American. But someone should ask Senator McCain. After all, he says he wants to require all Americans to cut greenhouse gas emissions 60 percent to 70 percent by 2050. As probably the whole country knows by now, John McCain does not know how many homes he owns. But the number seems to be between seven and 12, depending on whether you count his Sedona ranch as one house or six. ...
Topics: ecological footprint, elections, green living, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

On the topic of overconsumption ... John McCain doesn't know how many houses he owns	Kate Sheppard	21 Aug 2008	Gristmill
GOP presidential candidate John McCain isn't sure how many houses he owns. 'I think -- I'll have my staff get to you,' McCain told Politico yesterday. 'It's condominiums where -- I'll have them get to you.' The correct answer seems to be somewhere between four and seven. The Obama campaign has already released this ad on the subject: UPDATE: The McCain campaign responds with the arugula defense: 'In terms of who's an elitist, I think people have made a judgme ...
Topics: elections, funnies, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Back to whale oil McCain claims 'the truly clean technologies don't work'	Joseph Romm	20 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Late last year, after his campaign tanked, no one was paying much attention to McCain. As a result, some of the amazing things that he believes didn't get a lot of attention, such as this Cheney-esque stunner: John McCain: 'When you say wind solar and tide, most every expert that I know says that, if you maximize that in every possible way, the contribution that that would make given the present state of technology is very small, is very small. It's not a l ...
Topics: elections, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Putting lipstick on a rig McCain visits an oil rig, repeats call for more offshore drilling	Kate Sheppard	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Hurricane Dolly blew away John McCain's planned visit to an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico last month, but the senator made another go at it today. On a Chevron-operated rig 150 miles off the coast of Louisiana, McCain reiterated his call for more offshore drilling and bashed his opponent for not being enthusiastic enough about oil exploration. 'Sen. Obama opposes new drilling,' said McCain (who himself opposed new offshore drilling until this summer). 'He has said ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Like water and oil McCain suggests renegotiating Colorado River compact to benefit Ariz., Nev., and Calif.	Joseph Romm	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
What epic gaffe could unite Colorado's Democratic Senator Ken Salazar -- 'over my dead body' -- and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer -- 'Over my cold, dead, political carcass'? That would be Arizona Senator John McCain telling The Pueblo Chieftan on Thursady that he wants to renegotiate the famous 1922 Colorado River compact to take water from the so-called upper basin states, including Colo. and N.M., where the river originates and give it to lower b ...
Topics: climate, Colorado, elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, water conflicts (all these topics)

Voters' Voices: Virginia Talking with voters in northern Virginia about the environment and the election	Melinda Henneberger	15 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This is part of a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the environment and the election. Reston Town Center. Reston, Va. -- If Virginia were a person, it would look a lot like Rod Markham, a federal contractor, retired from the Army, who's leaning ever so slightly toward Obama but is still of two minds about the presidential race. "There's a part of me that wants so bad ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, Virginia, Voters Voices (all these topics)

Exxon John	David Roberts	13 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The Democratic National Committee is being mean to John McCain again:
Topics: advertising, Big Oil, elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Get to work!	David Roberts	07 Aug 2008	Gristmill
MoveOn takes on McCain the voteskipper: For more on those votes, see here.
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Gas impasse Obama campaign's attempts to get gas ads at the pump foiled	Kate Sheppard	07 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Barack Obama's campaign wanted to bring the energy ad wars directly to the pump, but their attempts have been foiled. The campaign wanted to run an ad on the mini TV screens that appear on some gas pumps, pointing out that John McCain voted against higher fuel-economy standards and renewable energy, and that Obama is calling for a $1,000 energy rebate and measures to move toward energy independence. The campaign intended to roll out the ad at gas stations in Tam ...
Topics: advertising, Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Gauge against the machine McCain now agrees that inflating your tires saves gasoline	Kate Sheppard	06 Aug 2008	Gristmill
John McCain and his campaign have been ribbing Barack Obama for his statement last week that if Americans made sure their tires were properly inflated it could save as much oil as would be found in offshore areas. The McCain team went so far as to hand out tire gauges at the Democratic candidates's events. Obama jabbed back yesterday, and now McCain in conceding the accuracy of his rival's statement. 'And could I mention that Sen. Obama a couple of days ago said ...
Topics: advertising, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

The energy-ad arms race Presidential candidates keep the energy ads a-comin'	Kate Sheppard	06 Aug 2008	Gristmill
John McCain put out this new ad yesterday, 'Broken,' in which he's portrayed as the 'original maverick' and pledges to 'battle Big Oil.' (Someone might want to pass the message along to his donors.) Barack Obama responded with this new ad yesterday, challenging the premise that McCain has been a 'maverick' on energy and other issues: ' And today McCain issued another ad repeating the celebrity allegation (this time minus Britney and Paris) and alleging tha ...
Topics: advertising, Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Phone tag team Fact-checking the McCain campaign's press call on energy policy	Kate Sheppard	06 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The McCain campaign held a press call yesterday on Barack Obama's energy policy, in which their spokesfolks let fly a few statements that should be categorized as something other than truthful. Senior adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin: 'Barack Obama has said no to more domestic exploration of oil and natural gas ... He has said no to new coal-fired electrical generation plants ... He has said no to nuclear.' Actually, as reported earlier, Obama has said he'd allow so ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, tax incentives (all these topics)

Uppin' Atom! McCain tours nuke plant, renews call for nuclear power expansion in U.S.		06 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 6:20 AM on 06 Aug 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain toured a nuclear plant in Michigan on Tuesday, using the opportunity to renew his call for the U.S. to build 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030. At the plant, McCain said that his love affair with nuclear power began when he encountered nuclear ships and submarines in the Navy. "I knew it was safe then, I know it's safe now," ...
Topics: elections, John McCain, news, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

At last he's ready to vote McCain says he'd end his vacation from Congress to 'drill here, drill now'	Brad Johnson	05 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the Wonk Room. In eastern Pennsylvania yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) repeatedly argued, 'We need to drill here and we need to drill now.' His invocation of the slogan of Newt Gingrich's right-wing 527 corporation, American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF), was coupled with the following call for Congress to 'come back to town and come back to work': Congress should come back into session, and I'm willing to come off the campaign tr ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, tax incentives (all these topics)

Fermi stance McCain to visit nuclear power plant with dismal safety record	Kate Sheppard	05 Aug 2008	Gristmill
After stopping at a biker rally in South Dakota this morning, John McCain is headed to Monroe, Mich., this afternoon, where he'll visit the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station. While at the power plant, he's expected to talk up his plan to build 45 new nuclear plants by 2030, and 55 more after that. During the visit, he's likely to promote the Republicans' energy strategy, which includes major support for the nuclear industry. 'I am going to lead our nation to ...
Topics: elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Thrills, Drills, and Bills Obama softens opposition to offshore drilling, and more political news		03 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 11:33 PM on 03 Aug 2008 Barack Obama opened the door to offshore drilling on Friday, saying, "My interest is in making sure we've got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices. If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Oil support you Campaign Money Watch looks at McCain's donations from Big Oil	Kate Sheppard	01 Aug 2008	Gristmill
John McCain's call for more offshore drilling has resulted in an influx of oil money to his campaign coffers, as we reported earlier this week. Yesterday, Campaign Money Watch put out a comprehensive report [PDF] on just how much much money Big Oil has been sending to the GOP candidate, and how it compares to his previous donations from oil interests. From the report: In Texas alone, June oil and gas-connected donations to McCain's Victory '08 Fund, his hy ...
Topics: Big Oil, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The world is full of crashing oil barrels Ads from Sierra Club and MoveOn hit McCain over energy policy	Kate Sheppard	31 Jul 2008	Gristmill
'Big Oil companies have our economy and politics in a choke hold,' says a new TV ad released today by the Sierra Club Political Committee. 'They are getting billions from the government, raking in record profits, while we pay more and more for gas.' 'John McCain's answer?' the ad continues. 'Another $4 billion giveaway to Big Oil.' The ad, 'Full Nelson,' shows a family being squashed by oil barrels filled with cash. It goes on to praise Barack Obama (whom the S ...
Topics: advertising, Big Oil, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Offshore thing McCain compares Obama to Britney and Paris in new energy ad	Kate Sheppard	30 Jul 2008	Gristmill
In the ongoing energy ad battle, John McCain released another television ad today on the subject. Or at least it purports to be about energy. The ad juxtaposes video of Obama at his recent speech in Berlin with photos of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, and alleges that while he might be celebrated the world over, he's not ready to lead on energy concerns. 'He's the biggest celebrity in the world. But is he ready to lead?' the ad asks. 'With gas prices soaring, Ba ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Pump up the volume Obama responds to McCain's 'Pump' ad with call for higher mileage standards and renewables	Kate Sheppard	30 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama released a new television ad on energy prices yesterday -- a direct response to John McCain's recent ad blaming Obama for high gas prices. 'Have you seen John McCain's TV ad?' the Obama ad asks. 'John McCain is blaming Barack Obama for gas prices. The same old politics.' 'Barack Obama thinks high gas prices deserve serious answers, and a serious plan: Crack down on oil speculators, raise mileage standards, and f ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Be a Dolly and Cancel My Trip, Will You? Hurricane Dolly cancels McCain's trip to offshore oil rig		24 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 6:57 AM on 24 Jul 2008 John McCain had planned to visit an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday to tout offshore drilling and the industry's environmental friendliness, but Hurricane Dolly canceled his plans. Dolly hit land in Texas Wednesday as a Category 2 storm, cutting oil and gas production by some 5 to 8 percent overall. McCain and other Republicans have been pushing to allow ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, severe weather (all these topics)

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