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Big bad boom Radioactive deja vu in the American West	David Roberts	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Chip Ward, author and board member of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. It was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom's kind permission. ----- In the American West, we take global warming personally. Like those polar bears desperately hunting for dwindling ice flows, we feel we're on the frontlines of the new weather regime. The West is drying up. For example, canyon-hugging conservationists ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, environmental movement, nuclear power, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Some clarity on the Clarity Honda fuel-cell vehicle: Not marketable, practical, or environmental	Joseph Romm	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Technology Review asked me to comment about the hype over the new Honda fuel-cell car, which the company optimistically calls 'the world's first hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicle intended for mass production.' The key word here is 'intended.' Here it is: ----- Would you buy a car that costs 10 times as much as a hybrid gasoline-electric, like the Prius? What if I told you it had half the range of the hybrid? What if I told you most cities didn't have a single ...
Topics: Big Auto, cars, energy, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Stormy waters Offshore drilling likely to raise some voter ire in Florida	Kate Sheppard	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain's call this week for an end to the moratorium on offshore drilling isn't faring well with environmentalists across the country. In one key state, however, it might really come back to bite him come November. Florida -- yes, land of dangling chads and nearly-won elections -- may well prove to be the place where McCain's call for drilling cost him in the general election. 'I think that he has made a serious miscalculation,' Holly Binns, field director fo ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Why more drilling is not the answer Conservative arguments to the contrary are intellectually bankrupt	Michael Moynihan	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the NDN blog. Of the various false solutions being proposed to the current oil shock perhaps none is more disingenous than the idea that it can be solved by drilling in the Alaskan wilderness and along the Outer Continental Shelf. This is the idea that the right wing media, recently John McCain, and now President Bush have been pushing as a cure-all for soaring oil prices. Since many Democrats oppose this drilling, the next false logica ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Well, when you put it that way ... Rasmussen poll biased on offshore drilling	Joseph Romm	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Rasmussen Reports did a poll that they tout as showing '67 percent Support Offshore Drilling.' Given the biased way they did the poll (details here), I'm surprised the number was so low. The first question they asked: 'How concerned are you about rising gas and energy prices?' Pretty much everybody is concerned. Duh. But in a flawed poll, almost a push poll, the point of the first question is to get people thinking about about the pain of gasoline prices, rath ...
Topics: energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

You know things are getting bad ...	David Roberts	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
... when even China is raising fuel prices.
Topics: gas prices, China, energy (all these topics)

The Grand Ostrich Party Conservative heads increasingly buried in sand	Ryan Avent	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Andrew Sullivan reads this Jim Manzi post (Conservatives are going to win on climate change! By doing nothing!) and says he's on board. He then proceeds to blow my freaking mind: The key will be private and public innovation of non-carbon energy, and possibly carbon capture technology. Frankly, however painful it is for many, the high price of gas is perhaps the best anti-global warming non-policy there is. Now, why is it that the high price of gas is the best an ...
Topics: climate, energy, fossil fuels, gas prices, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

OMG, CNN actually reports Major news network exposes McCain's energy contradictions	David Roberts	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Does not compute: Only thing is, they keep saying, 'this shows how tricky it is for McCain.' What it also shows, one might think, is that McCain is willing to lie and change his positions willy nilly. They used to call Democrats people 'flip-floppers' and 'serial exaggerators' for that sort of thing. With McCain, it's just some sort of objective difficulty in the landscape that forces him to lunge this way and that on policy. Which you know pains him, since he's ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

It's Worth a Shot Hunters' group sues Interior Dept for drilling's impacts on wildlife		19 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:52 AM on 19 Jun 2008 The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, a coalition of hunting, fishing, and conservation groups, is suing the U.S. Interior Department over the impacts of gas drilling on wildlife in southwestern Wyoming. Some 1,000 natural-gas wells puncture the landscape of the state's Pinedale Anticline gas fields, with over 4,000 more wells likely to be drilled in the next 60 yea ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, litigation, news, oil and gas drilling, Wyoming (all these topics)

Nuclear deterrence Lovins and Sheikh defend their work in 'The Nuclear Illusion'	Guest author	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Amory B. Lovins and Imran Sheikh of the Rocky Mountain Institute. ----- David Bradish, in a post on the blog of the Nuclear Energy Institute, criticizes our methodology used to derive micropower's output in 'The Nuclear Illusion' (PDF). As Mr. Bradish notes in hypertext, our methodology is online here (PDF), and our micropower database is posted and documented here. Here's our point-by-point response to his critique: 'With the exceptio ...
Topics: cogeneration, energy, nuclear power, renewable energy (all these topics)

Oil drilling = oil spilling How greens and Democrats can win the energy debate	Glenn Hurowitz	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
If the pro-environment Republican wasn't already dead, I think this week killed him. John McCain, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, President Bush, and many others threw overboard one of the last policy planks Republicans (at least in coastal states) used to show that they're pro-environment too by calling for a massive offshore drilling program. As chronicled in this excellent article by Politico's Charles Mathesian and David Mark, it's a politically risky move for Rep ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

EIA to McCain: Drop offshore (drilling) Offshore drilling will have no impact on oil prices through 2030	Joseph Romm	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
McCain has flip-flopped his position on offshore drilling, pandered to the oil companies, and embraced the exact same strategy endorsed by the man McCain is trying so hard to run away from -- President Bush. He must have a damn good policy reason: 'Tomorrow I'll call for lifting the federal moratorium for states that choose to permit exploration,' McCain said. 'I think that this and perhaps providing additional incentives for states to permit exploration off their co ...
Topics: climate, energy, John McCain, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

No luv from Democratic guvs McCain's offshore drilling plan irks coastal state governors	Kate Sheppard	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The Obama campaign hosted a press conference this afternoon with Democratic governors to highlight opposition to John McCain's call to end the moratorium on offshore drilling. The governors expressed uniform distaste with the proposal, and skepticism that voters in their states would approve of drilling off their coasts. 'Our economy is driven by tourism and use of the shore,' said Jon Corzine, governor of New Jersey. 'I think we would have a hard time getting p ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (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)

The politics of clean energy Considering recycled energy will politically facilitate a national clean energy plan	Sean Casten	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
There is a tendency to frame the politics of clean energy as a debate between the enlightened, forward thinkers on the coasts and the paleolithic environment-hating coal barons in the Southeast and Midwest. It makes a good sound bite, but confuses the ends and the means. Yes, there are strong vested interests in the coal belt and the rust belt that consistently resist GHG caps and clean energy policy. But so long as we frame the clean energy conversation as a wealth t ...
Topics: business, energy, energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, legislation, state politics (all these topics)

More on the cost of GHG regulation Short-term high gas prices (hopefully) mitigate long-term environmental disasters	Andrew Dessler	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I have been reading Sean Casten's post on the economics of carbon pricing with interest. After some thought, here's my take. A carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system will, without question, raise the price of energy, at least in the short term. In the long-term, it may well be that technological developments lead us to new energy sources that turn out to be cheaper than anything we have today. But that's pure speculation. But in the short term, the costs of a c ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, energy efficiency, gas prices (all these topics)

Notable quotable Hm, oversold by who?	David Roberts	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'[Carbon capture and sequestration] as a magical technology that solves the carbon problem for coal plants is oversold. ... I think there is a lot to learn, and it is going to take us a lot longer for us to figure it out than a lot of us think.' -- Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers
Topics: carbon sequestration, energy, quotables (all these topics)

Mother Earth's triple whammy Why North Korea was a global crisis canary	Guest author	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies and the author of numerous articles on food policy and on North Korea. It was originally published on TomDispatch and is reprinted here with Tom's kind permission. ----- Gas prices are above $4 a gallon; global food prices surged 39 percent last year; and an environmental disaster looms as carbon emissions continue to spiral upward. The global ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, energy, international politics, North Korea (all these topics)

Trust as first sight Public trusts Obama more than McCain on gas prices, global warming, energy	David Roberts	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Interesting results from a new ABC/WaPo poll. Who do Americans trust more on the economy? Obama 52%, McCain 36% How about gas prices? Obama 50%, McCain 30% Global warming? Obama 55%, McCain 28% Energy policy? Obama 51%, McCain 36% Issues where McCain is more trusted: international affairs, war in Iraq (by one point), and war on terror. Overall, Obama's ahead by 6% -- roughly where he's been for a while now:
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, gas prices, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Man in the Middle McCain calls for offshore drilling, renewables, and conservation in energy speech		17 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 9:27 PM on 17 Jun 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain tried to pack something for everyone into a big energy speech yesterday, saying the U.S. needs more conservation and renewables as well as more oil drilling, oil refineries, "clean-burning coal," and nuclear power plants. He called for ending a federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling, but reiterated his ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Texas hold 'em McCain calling for offshore drilling, renewables, and conservation in energy speech	Kate Sheppard	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain. John McCain will give a big speech on energy policy this afternoon to a group of oil executives in Houston, Texas. According to his prepared remarks, his address will highlight the need to forge a path to energy independence, calling for expanded domestic oil and gas drilling as well as a move toward renewable energy sources and conservation. 'The next president must be willing to break with the energy policies not just of the current adminis ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Calamity Kaine Virginia Gov, possible veep, afraid of Big Coal	Glenn Hurowitz	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine set a new standard for politician mealy-mouthedness with a letter to his Virginia Air Board (tip of the hat to Raising Kaine for digging this one up). Although he asserts that his letter isn't about any particular decision, everyone outside the governor's office knows that the letter is about one thing: The proposed massive coal-fired power plant being planned for Wise County, Virginia. His bureaucratic opacity (PDF) is sure to be taught in gov ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, politics, presidential race 08, Virginia (all these topics)

Mixed messages McCain releases new climate ad ahead of speech calling for more drilling	Kate Sheppard	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain unveiled a new climate-change ad today -- hours before he's scheduled to give an energy speech in Texas that will call for building more oil refineries and lifting a federal ban on offshore oil and gas drilling. 'John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming, five years ago,' says the ad. 'Today, he has a realistic plan that will curb greenhouse-gas emissions. A plan that will help grow our economy and protect our envi ...
Topics: climate, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

How biofuels are like drugs Not all biofuels are the same; we can do biofuel well or poorly	Vinod Khosla	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
To my surprise, recently I found myself the subject of an editorial by the Wall Street Journal which characterized me as a strong advocate of subsidies for food-based ethanol, and as a recipient of 'federal dole' who ought to 'take a vow of embarrassed silence.' I have not advocated subsidies for food-based ethanol. In fact, I strongly believe any nascent technology that cannot exist without subsidies beyond an introductory period will not gain market penetrati ...
Topics: biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, energy, ethanol (all these topics)

Mildly different Are McCain's environmental views really so far from Bush's?	David Roberts	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller says, "On the environment ... Mr. McCain has strikingly different views from Mr. Bush." Is that true? Bush wants unstinting federal support and pork for the nuclear industry. He supports "clean coal." He is against raising CAFE standards on automobiles or boosting efficiency and performance standards on other individual economic sectors. He supports removing the moratorium on offshore drilling. He believes in ...
Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, John McCain, legislation, politics (all these topics)

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