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Headline	Author	Published	Section
I'll bite your legs off! 'Environmental purists' unhappy with House Dem energy bill	David Roberts	21 Sep 2008	Gristmill
This is mostly water under the bridge now, but look, Dems got outmaneuvered this summer, as Republicans managed to successfully reframe the energy debate around drilling. They drummed up lots of public support and put Dems on the defensive. This is the fault not only of Dem lawmakers but also of everyone on the progressive side of things -- there was simply no coordinated pushback. But it is what it is. Dems are where they are. So Pelosi tried to get through this sess ...
Topics: energy, legislation, tax incentives, oil and gas drilling, oil, Congress, environmental movement, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Lieberman-Warner gets corporate support Industry & green groups join up to back climate bill	Kate Sheppard	31 May 2008	Gristmill
A coalition of corporations, green groups, and unions issued a joint statement to senators yesterday declaring their support for the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, which will hit the Senate floor on Monday. Among the endorsers is General Electric, one of the five largest companies in the world -- definitely a big pick-up for the legislation. 'This is a very important vote on a bipartisan plan to address climate change,' reads the statement. '[T]he bill prot ...
Topics: climate, environmental movement, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

From the peanut gallery Responses to Bush's climate speech	Grist	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Here's a roundup of responses to Bush's climate speech. We'll add to it as more come in. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming:'By the time President Bush's plan finally starts to cut global warming emissions, the planet will already be cooked. The President's short-term goal is to do nothing, his medium-term goal is to do nothing much, and his long-term goal is to do nothing close to what's needed to sav ...
Topics: climate, Environmental Defense Fund, environmental movement, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, League of Conservation Voters, legislation, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Martin Luther King Jr. and crossing boundaries MLKJr.'s words about Vietnam apply to Iraq and the environment	Jon Rynn	04 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Forty years ago, writes the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne, liberalism's moments seemed to have passed: From the death of John F. Kennedy in November 1963 until the congressional elections of November 1966, liberals were triumphant, and what they did changed the world. Civil rights and voting rights, Medicare and Medicaid, clean air and clean water legislation, Head Start, the Job Corps, and federal aid to schools had their roots in the liberal wave that began to ebb when ...
Topics: environmental movement, grassroots activism, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Get it right the first time Carl Pope of the Sierra Club lays out a blueprint for an effective climate bill	Guest author	14 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. ----- There are moments when a choice of pathways shapes the future -- and makes success either feasible or impossible. In light of the fact that all of the remaining leading presidential candidates call for some kind of action on global warming, and the Lieberman-Warner bill is already working its way through the Senate, almost everyone recognizes that sometime in the n ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, environmental movement, legislation, politics (all these topics)

A Green Tug-of-War Green groups battle over climate bills in the Senate	Brian Beutler	25 Oct 2007	Muckraker
When writer and climate activist Bill McKibben took to the pages of The Washington Post late last month to demand that legislators and activists back the most ambitious climate-change bill in the U.S. Senate, it was more than a call to action -- it was a public salvo in a contentious behind-the-scenes battle. Photo: iStockphoto While senators are shaping and debating the merits of various global- ...
Topics: Congress, environmental movement, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

ED come home Facing big obstacles, environmental movement can't afford division	Glenn Hurowitz	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill
A little tenderness Cartoon: Bob Englehart; Hartford Courant. I'm excited that Environmental Defense is now saying publicly, in response to criticism from Matt Stoller and me, that it 'has not endorsed' the Lieberman-Warner bill and that it 'will work to strengthen the bill, particularly to achieve the deeper long-term emissions reductions scientists tell us we need to avoid a climate catastrophe.' That's great, but I must note it's a sentiment that was di ...
Topics: climate, energy, environmental movement, legislation, politics (all these topics)

A green civil war? Environmental Defense has abandoned other green groups on Lieberman's bill; how should they respond?	Glenn Hurowitz	18 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Over at OpenLeft.com, the always devastating Matt Stoller writes that 'the green civil wars need to begin.' He's urging other environmental groups to go after Environmental Defense for offering a ringing endorsement of the latest Warner-Lieberman climate bill. Environmental Defense is justifying a large corporate giveaway under the rubric of environmentalism, and the rest of the green community is letting ED get away with it. In terms of the policy, Environment ...
Topics: climate, energy, environmental movement, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Lady Bird's green leanings The passing of the former first lady (sorta) missed by enviros	Kate Sheppard	17 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Asher Price over at the Austin American-Statesman calls us out for not mentioning that Lady Bird Johnson passed away last week. The former First Lady (what did she go by, anyway? 'Lady'? 'Bird'? 'LB'?) was a staunch environmentalist, even though she rejected the term. She was the major driving force in the more than 200 environment-related bills that her husband passed while in office, including the Highway Beautification Act of 1965, the Wilderness Act, the Land and W ...
Topics: environmental movement, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Bipartisanship on the environment Who's stopping it?	David Roberts	16 Jul 2007	Gristmill
You hear a lot, from well-meaning Republican environmentalists of the sort you find on this site, or this one, or this one, that we'll "never make any progress" on the environment until it becomes a bipartisan issue. Strangely, this scolding isn't directed at the conservative movement, which has for decades obstructed any action dedicated to solving environmental problems. It's directed instead at environmentalists who identify with the progressive mov ...
Topics: environmental movement, legislation, politics (all these topics)

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