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The media is (almost) onto McCain's cynical doubletalk 'Purpose,' McCain's new energy ad, features wind turbines he voted against	Joseph Romm	02 Jul 2008	Gristmill
McCain has a new ad titled 'Purpose': The AP critiqued it with a piece titled, 'McCain energy ad short on specifics.' Okay, mainstream media, half credit. The ad has a much bigger problem than lack of specifics -- McCain is trying to get a political boost by claiming he will champion popular clean energy technologies that he, like President Bush and most conservatives, has consistently opposed:SCRIPT: Announcer: American technology protected the world. We went to th ...
Topics: John McCain, mainstream media, presidential race 08, elections, energy, politics, video (all these topics)

'Often contradictory stances' Mainstream media realizes that McCain's energy rhetoric and record don't match up	Kate Sheppard	01 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The mainstream media has started to pick up on the fact that John McCain's energy policy is totally inconsistent. Bloomberg: As a senator, John McCain has condemned policies that pick market winners and losers, aiming particular criticism at government ethanol subsidies as a taxpayer rip-off. As a presidential candidate, the Arizona Republican himself is backing specific industries in proposals for relief from high energy prices and foreign oil dependence. ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, mainstream media, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Per Hirsh incentives Newsweek political journalist transcribes McCain campaign spin on energy	David Roberts	29 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Last October, Barack Obama laid out a detailed, ambitious, and comprehensive energy plan, and he's been talking about it ever since. A couple weeks ago, John McCain let loose a flurry of one-off energy gimmicks -- a gas tax holiday, offshore drilling, a prize for a car battery -- which he crammed together under the heading 'the Lexington Plan.' According to Washington Wise Man Michael Hirsh, in a mash note that would embarrass a crushing tween, that puts Obama on th ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

'It is now' Obama lays out an energy vision that's economics and security first	David Roberts	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I just read the energy speech Obama gave on Tuesday in Nevada. I'd call it a TKO if I didn't sound so unconvincing using boxing metaphors. Watch what he leads with: "A green, renewable energy economy isn't some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future, it is now."This is what the campaign, correctly in my judgment, has decided people need to hear first and foremost: It's happening. People just like you, who live around here, are getting jobs doing this stuff. The Ob ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

No McCain, no gain GOP candidate calls for energy efficiency in a California speech	Kate Sheppard	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain gave yet another address on energy and environmental issues today (the third in the past week, if you're counting), this one focused on energy efficiency, which he says should begin at home with the federal government. 'Energy efficiency is no longer just a moral luxury or a personal virtue,' he told a crowd gathered at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in California on Tuesday morning, echoing language from his June 17 energy speech. 'A sm ...
Topics: elections, energy, energy efficiency, John McCain, Muckraker, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

A Springfield in his step McCain goes to Springfield, talks up nukes and coal	Kate Sheppard	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain followed up yesterday's energy speech with more energy talk today during a roundtable at Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo. Today he focused more specifically on his support for two energy sources: nuclear power and 'clean coal.' The roundtable also featured Greg Boyce, CEO of Peabody Energy, the world's largest coal company, and Mike Chesser, CEO of Great Plains Energy. The panel was moderated by Jim Jones, a Chevron board member and pre ...
Topics: coal, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Windfall beneath his wings? McCain might not be as opposed to a windfall profits tax as his fellow Republicans	Kate Sheppard	16 May 2008	Gristmill
Via the Democratic National Committee's blog, this video makes it seem like John McCain might not be as opposed to a windfall profits tax on oil companies as are his colleagues in the Senate and at the RNC:
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Subsidize my love Grist asks McCain about contradictory messages on nuclear subsidies	Kate Sheppard	15 May 2008	Gristmill
John McCain hosted a call-in with bloggers today following his address in Columbus, Ohio, in which he outlined his priorities for a first term in office. Grist got in a couple of questions: You mentioned climate and energy in your speech today, that they would be among your top priorities, and that has also been the focus of several speeches this week. You say in general that you're against subsidies, even for renewable energy, but you said today that you'd like to ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

'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 ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

John Voyage McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin opens up on climate and energy	David Roberts	21 Apr 2008	Grist Feature
Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Opinions differ on the quality of John McCain's domestic policy agenda, but you'd have trouble finding anyone in Washington who would disparage the man he's chosen as one of his top advisers. Douglas Holtz-Eakin has a dauntingly long resume and a reputation among policy wonks on both sides of the aisle for fair-minded number crunching. He has taught economics at top-no ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, interview, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

'How not to run for vice president' VP hopeful Pawlenty fails energy/climate conservative litmus test	Joseph Romm	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Just in case you thought conservatives might be warming up to climate action and clean energy with the impending nomination of John McCain, uber-conservative columnist Bob Novak explains otherwise in a column titled 'How Not to Run for Vice President.' As a nonconservative, I know I can't do justice to Novak's 'logic' by summarizing it, and I suspect many readers would think I was taking his argument out of context, since it seems so ... well ... judge for yours ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Presidential campaign footprints under scrutiny Confused Washington Times disses McCain and Obama on lack of carbon offsets	Joseph Romm	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill
In a bizarre twist, the conservative Washington Times, which would normally be critical of fuzzy environmental strategies like carbon offsets, is actually attacking the candidates for not offsetting all their campaign emissions. Opening with an absurd headline, 'Green crusades lot of talk,' the Times writes: Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have called for strict mandatory limits to control greenhouse gases but they aren't leading by example -- each has failed ...
Topics: Barack Obama, carbon offsets, climate, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

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)

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)

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)

Mittster attacks McCain on climate Could Romney's climate contrarianism come back to bite him in the general?	David Roberts	27 Jan 2008	Gristmill
It's becoming increasingly clear that the Republican race is down to McCain and Romney, and they are rapidly escalating their attacks on one another. Romney is now using McCain's climate legislation against him: In a new line of attack, Romney then tore into the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act. "Instead of seeing if there's a way of stimulating the economy, McCain-Lieberman would depress the economy," Romney said. "His plan cal ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, John McCain, legislation, Mitt Romney, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Climate change in last night's GOP debate McCain's doubletalk express on global warming	Joseph Romm	25 Jan 2008	Gristmill
If you think Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is a straight-talking, courageous politician on the issue of global warming, watch this jaw-dropping clip from last night's Republican presidential debate: The transcript is online, so we can go through McCain's entire Orwellian answer to moderator Tim Russert. [Note: This was following a question to Giuliani about the global warming threat to Florida and his opposition to mandatory caps, which I'll briefly discu ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

John McCain: Patsy of the Democratic Left? Even Republicans will have to acknowledge global warming in the presidential race	Kit Stolz	25 Jan 2008	Gristmill
In a report for 'The Campaign Spot' on the National Review, Jim Geraghty gently broke the bad news to conservatives that yes, global warming will be an issue in the 2008 campaign, and the Republican party will concede the time has now come to act to reduce the risks. To make his case, first Geraghty gave the mic to a fire-breathing Giuliani supporter named Robert Tracinski, who declared for Real Clear Politics: But the biggest problem for Republicans with McCain's c ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Like a red-headed step planet How will climate play in the general election?	David Roberts	23 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This CQ article is disturbing for two reasons. One, it confirms my worst fears about a McCain candidacy: Today, McCain's position would be relatively close to that of the Democratic nominee in a general election. Only on the most superficial level, but then, I guess that's the level we play on during campaigns. ... if Republicans nominate a cap-and-trade proponent for president -- McCain or possibly Huckabee -- the GOP side could play up the issue in an atte ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Green in sheep's clothing? Pro-warming Romney has sham slam on McCain	Joseph Romm	15 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Think Progress has the whole story, but I'll repeat it here, since, tragically, it may represent the shape of things to come in climate politics for many years, making it hard for Republicans to do the moral thing on climate: Last weekend, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) slammed Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for supporting 'radical climate change legislation,' and 'pushing for a massive new energy tax.' Romney is using an anti-environment front group, ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Pandering in Michigan Romney and McCain treat Michigan workers like credulous children	David Roberts	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Romney and McCain are campaigning furiously in Michigan, and it's tight. Romney, for whom Michigan is make-or-break, seems to have decided it's in his best interests to sell fantasies: Mr. Romney criticized the energy bill signed into law last month by President Bush that requires cars and trucks sold in the United States to achieve a fleet average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020. Substantial majorities in both parties in both houses of Congress approved the mea ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, Michigan, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain on climate and coal in Michigan Rubber, meet road	David Roberts	13 Jan 2008	Gristmill
So, McCain made a big deal out of climate change before the New Hampshire primary, sucking up to the state's independents. Now the Republicans are heading to Michigan, where there's an epic fight going on between environmentalists and massive rush of proposed new coal plants. Think McCain will take sides in that struggle?
Topics: climate, coal, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Masters of their domain Politicians and the art of deception	biodiversivist	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Compare this video (posted by David) of Hillary squirming while she tells a whopper with the video below of McCain being brutally honest (via a comment by greyflcn in same post). Refreshing. We human beings are masters of deception, and of detection of said deception -- the result of an evolutionary arms race: Update: I didn't realize that this is old footage before his flip flop. Update: Compare his demeanor in the above clip to his demeanor in the clip b ...
Topics: biofuels, elections, energy, ethanol, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain on the Record An interview with John McCain about his presidential platform on energy and the environment	Amanda Griscom Little	01 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
This is part of a series of interviews with presidential candidates produced jointly by Grist and Outside. John McCain. Photo: hatch1921 John McCain likes to project a tough-guy stance on the issues, and global warming is no exception. "Americans solve problems. We don't run from them," he's quoted as saying on the environment page of his ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, interview, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

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