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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)

Shameless	David Roberts	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill
In an election year, even Senate minority leader and filibuster cowboy Mitch McConnell claims to be green.Are these people born without a shame gene, or do they beat their shame instinct into submission over a lifetime in politics?
Topics: elections, politics (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)

What Al Gore could do There's a need for someone to draw contrasts among candidates on climate	David Roberts	13 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I said earlier that there's no point in Al Gore endorsing anyone in the primary. But if he does want to have a salutary effect on the presidential election, I have a proposal for him. More on that in a minute. It's looking like John McCain has a better than even chance of getting the Republican nomination. He has the distinction of being by far the most sensible Republican candidate on the subject of climate change. It is one of his storied heresies from Republican o ...
Topics: Al Gore, elections, John McCain, 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)

Huckabee on Colbert	David Roberts	11 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Bit of a dodge on global warming, no?
Topics: climate, elections, funnies, politics, presidential race 08, TV (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)

How a Bill Becomes a Blah Richardson drops out of presidential race, takes clean-energy fervor back to N.M.		10 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 1:47 PM on 10 Jan 2008 New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination today, after tanking in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. In making his announcement, he looked on the bright side: "A year ago ... we were the campaign with the most aggressive clean energy plan and the most ambitious standards for redu ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Whom will Gore endorse?	David Roberts	10 Jan 2008	Gristmill
First, in other primary news, Bill Richardson, whose energy plan was excellent but who failed to excite anyone, at all, even a little bit, has dropped out of the Dem primary. Also, John Kerry, who didn't excite all that many people either, has endorsed Barack Obama. The big question, according to Josh, is whom Al Gore will endorse. I've seen lots of speculation about this. My strong inclination is that Gore will not endorse anyone until the general, when he will endor ...
Topics: Al Gore, presidential race 08, elections, politics (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)

McCain Is Able McCain wins in New Hampshire, after trolling for green votes		08 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 6:00 PM on 08 Jan 2008 Unseasonably warm weather brought out a surge of voters in New Hampshire's primary -- and is it mere coincidence that the only Republican with a real plan to tackle climate change won? Well, OK, probably yes. But John McCain, who handily prevailed in the Granite State's GOP primary, did make a deliberate appeal to New Hampshire voters who care about the environment. "I will clean ...
Topics: elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

'His ideas have mirrored John's' Elizabeth Edwards says her hubby is the man to build a social movement	David Roberts	08 Jan 2008	Gristmill
From Ezra Klein's short but interesting interview with Elizabeth Edwards: Ezra Klein: The message you seemed to be previewing on Sunday was that Obama's a great guy, he's got a great philosophy, really good ideas, but it's in his head and not in his heart. Elizabeth Edwards: Except for the ideas part, sure. His health care plan is slightly different, but in most everything else, he's adopted what John had said before. I'm not saying he can't have great ide ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John Edwards, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Warm in NH	David Roberts	08 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Time has a nice little story on the "Eight Keys to New Hampshire." Number six: global warming. It may be Al Gore's ultimate political triumph: climate change as a key election issue. Everywhere they go throughout the state, candidates from both parties field questions about global warming from voters who are looking for more than just platitudes. They want to hear about cap-and-trade, carbon tax, hybrid cars, and woe to the candidate who tries to sid ...
Topics: climate, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Turnout in NH	David Roberts	08 Jan 2008	Gristmill
High.
Topics: elections, 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)

New Hampshire prediction, guaranteed accurate to the tenth decimal	David Roberts	08 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Obama by 8, McCain by 3. Clinton in second, Edwards in third. Romney in second, Huckabee in third.
Topics: elections, New Hampshire, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Rice Versa An interview with Andrew Rice, the Democrat challenging GOP Sen. James Inhofe	David Roberts	07 Jan 2008	Grist Feature
Andrew Rice. No national politician has done more to antagonize the environmental community than James Inhofe, Republican senator from Oklahoma. As chair of the Senate Environment Committee in the last Congress, and now as its ranking minority member, he has waged war on environmental legislation and acted as a one-man firewall stopping efforts to address global warming, which he ...
Topics: elections, interview, James Inhofe, politics (all these topics)

What about the cities? Urban issue virtually absent from campaign; mayors speak up	David Roberts	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Ed Glaeser asks the presidential candidates: "What about the cities?" Last month, Clyde Haberman wondered the same thing. It's a good question. Every rural cornpone mom and pop in Iowa has had a candidate personally promise to put on their slippers on every morning, but what about the majority of Americans that live in urban and suburban areas? Turns out The Nation and the Drum Major Institute have just done a video project on it, interviewing ten U.S. mayo ...
Topics: elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Green gap is more of a chasm The presidential debates once again highlight the obvious	Adam Stein	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Matthew Yglesias notes the environmental policy gap between Democratic and Republican presidential contenders: "On the Republican side, we have Mike Huckabee who thinks global warming is a serious problem but doesn't have any particular ideas about dealing with it." It strikes me as worse than that. When I read Andy Revkin's run-down of the weekend's debates, this made me want to get my shrill on: Mike Huckabee called for a billion-dollar prize for the fi ...
Topics: cars, elections, energy, fuel efficiency, 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)

DeSmogBlog owes Obama three apologies Obama is in no way 'George Bush Lite'	Joseph Romm	06 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I am a big fan of the climate website, DeSmogBlog. So I was shocked when, the day after his unprecedented victory in Iowa, DeSmogBlog gave Barack Obama 'the inaugural 2007 SmogMaker Award for blowing smoke on global warming.' Gimme a break. How could anyone win that award any year -- let alone in its inaugural year -- when George W. Bush is still president? [Not to mention a year in which Lomborg and Inhofe continue their influential disinformation compaigns!] A ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, George Bush, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

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