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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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Voters' Voices: West Virginia II
Race mattered in the W.Va. primary, but will it keep mattering? |
Melinda Henneberger |
14 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| This is the second in a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the election. Charleston, W.Va. -- According to the exit polls, I was hanging out with a bunch of racially challenged Hillary supporters at last night's victory party here. One in five West Virginia voters fessed up that race was an important factor in their choice of a candidate –- and they didn't mean they saw Obama's diverse h ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08, Voters Voices, West Virginia (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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Truth laid bear?
McCain promotes eco-cred, while his advisers push for more Bush-style policies |
Kate Sheppard |
14 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| In honor of John McCain's eco-week, both the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee have launched sites where folks can make personal pledges to protect the planet. The McCain campaign has also put out a line of 'eco-friendly' swag -- shirts, hats, tote bags, etc. Meanwhile, McCain adviser Kevin Hassett, who is also the director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, argues in an op-ed that polar bears shouldn't be listed as ... |
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| Topics: elections, endangered species, john mccain, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, polar bears, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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We'll always have Monaco
W. Va. Supreme Court chief justice and friend to dirty coal loses reelection bid |
David Roberts |
14 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Remember Spike Maynard? He was the chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court, the one caught canoodling around the Caribbean with mountaintop mining executive Don Blankenship -- and some young women to whom, suffice to say, they were not betrothed -- while Blankenship's company, Massey Energy, had a case before the court. Maynard said he just happened to run into Blankenship in Monaco. (These things happen, right?) Spike got booted from that case, but he dragg ... |
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| Topics: elections, politics, shenanigans, state politics, West Virginia (all these topics) |
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Voters' Voices: West Virginia
Talking with voters in the Mountain State |
Melinda Henneberger |
13 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| This is the first in 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. Photo: Wignut Huntington, W.Va. -- Door-knocking for Barack Obama in a state where he expects to get stomped today has been kind of thankless for Pam Wonnell, a nurse and old friend of mine who moved here from Illinois last year for her husband's job in coal mining: 'I am not feeling t ... |
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| Topics: coal, elections, energy, mining, politics, presidential race 08, Voters Voices, West Virginia (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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Crank that Mike Gravel
Long-shot Gravel reminds us he's still in the presidential race |
Kate Sheppard |
13 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Remember Mike Gravel, the carbon-tax advocating, coal-hating, nuke-fighting, public-transit riding Democratic presidential candidate? Well, he's still running for president, but he's decided to join the Libertarian Party. And he's got a new video out, which is ... OK, it's not even vaguely environmental, though there is a reference to oil pipes. Mostly though, it's just amazing: Oh, and today is his 78th birthday, and he's also got a new video out about that. ... |
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| Topics: elections, Mike Gravel, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (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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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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'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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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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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Holiday on ice
What North Carolina and Indiana tell us about future oil and climate policy |
Joseph Romm |
08 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| For nearly two months now, Sen. Clinton has been outperforming the closing polls in primary state after primary state. And no one can possibly say that Sen. Obama had a good past three weeks, with the reemergence of Rev. Wright. Yet this time, he outperformed the recent polls in both states. This suggests that in the only other big issue to rise in the last week of the campaign -- the gas tax holiday -- Obama did not lose votes taking the principled position. As I (a ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, messaging, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Brit's Eye View: Blond ambition
What will London's new mayor, Boris Johnson, do for the environment? |
Ben Tuxworth |
07 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Ben Tuxworth, communications director at Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. Boris Johnson. Boris Johnson is mayor of London. It's pretty surprising to many of us here, including a fair number of political commentators and, I'd be willing to bet, even a number of the people who voted for him. It's hard to imagine an American equivalent. George Bush as president has some of the connotat ... |
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| Topics: elections, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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Triangulation
Or how to prove you're even dumber than your opponents |
Adam Browning |
07 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| There are a lot of things I miss about Bill Clinton. 'Triangulation' is not one of them. For those unfamiliar with the term, triangulation is the political strategy by which a candidate takes the stupidest ideas of his/her opponent and adopts them as his/her own, thus depriving one's opponent of a monopoly on stupidity and dispelling any misconception that you might be a candidate of substance and principle.If you remember, after the spectacular rise of the charism ... |
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| Topics: elections, Hillary Clinton, messaging, oil, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, interview, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Holiday in hell
Friends of the Earth Action launches ad against Clinton's 'gas tax holiday' |
Kate Sheppard |
06 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Friends of the Earth Action, which over the weekend endorsed Barack Obama in the Democratic primary, issued a new web ad today criticizing Hillary Clinton for supporting a 'gas-tax holiday' and praising Obama for his 'honest clean energy policy.' Here's their ad: |
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| Topics: elections, hillary clinton, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Obama's own pander
Direct mailers from Obama campaign hail 'clean Kentucky coal' |
Kate Sheppard |
06 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Hillary Clinton has been pilloried for pandering to working class voters with her gas-tax holiday proposal. But she's not the only one telling working-class voters what they want to hear. 'Barack Obama believes in clean Kentucky coal.' So reads a direct mailer being distributed in Kentucky ahead of the state's May 20 primary. (Click the image to the right for a larger version.) Clark Stevens, press secretary for the Obama campaign in Kentucky, confirmed that the mail ... |
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| Topics: barack obama, coal, elections, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Elections and the 'ape' in apricot
Glenn Hurowitz's analysis of Democratic election strategy |
biodiversivist |
05 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Hurowitz has written a book that analyzes how the Democrats managed to lose control of Congress for 12 whole years and let Bush get into and hold his office for the last eight. He sums up the problem in a single word: Courage. What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the 'ape' in apricot? Courage can be hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For example, here is an old YouTube video where some guy off camera tells Cheney to GFY. Sometimes there is a fine ... |
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| Topics: politics, elections, books (all these topics) |
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A Friend Indeed
Friends of the Earth Action endorses Obama; candidates spar over |
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03 May 2008 |
News |
| "gas tax holiday" Posted at 2:54 PM on 03 May 2008 Green group Friends of the Earth Action endorsed Barack Obama for president on Saturday, citing his principled stand against a temporary suspension of the gasoline tax. "The 'gas tax holiday' debate is a defining moment in the presidential race," said Friends of the Earth Action President Brent Blackwelder. "The two other candidates respon ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Tory swelling
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David Roberts |
01 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The Tories are kicking Labour's ass in the U.K. elections. More about the Tories' surprising degree of green here. |
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| Topics: elections, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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How I Spent My Summer Tax Vacation
McCain, Clinton support summer gas-tax rollback |
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29 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 5:39 AM on 29 Apr 2008 Hillary Clinton. Photo: Marc Nozell U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John McCain have said they support temporarily suspending the federal excise tax on gasoline and diesel fuel over the summer to ease the impacts of high fuel prices on consumers. McCain indicated he would shift revenue from other sources to cover the estimated $9 billion dip in highway infrastruct ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, news, oil, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Now We've Heard Udall
Green groups announce support for Senate campaigns |
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24 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:00 PM on 24 Apr 2008 A coalition of large green groups has pledged to support Mark Udall, Tom Udall, and Jeanne Shaheen in their campaigns to become senators in 2008. Colorado Representative Mark Udall and his cousin, New Mexico Representative Tom Udall, will run for Senate seats in their respective states; Shaheen is the former governor of New Hampshire, and will run there. All three are Democrats. The green g ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, elections, environmental movement, League of Conservation Voters, New Hampshire, New Mexico, news, politics, Sierra Club, state politics, US Senate (all these topics) |
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Expanding the Sphere's Influence
Prez candidates talk up Earth Day, Clinton clinches Pennsylvania primary |
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23 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 6:40 AM on 23 Apr 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won her party's primary in Pennsylvania Tuesday by a 10-point margin over rival Barack Obama. It's unclear what role environmental issues played in the Pennsylvania contest, if any, though Pennsylvania is one of many important coal states in the Democratic contest and both Clinton and Obama have regularly tou ... |
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| Topics: elections, news, politics (all these topics) |
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