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Pathetic Justice Supreme Court slashes Exxon's punitive damages for Valdez oil spill		25 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:37 AM on 25 Jun 2008 ExxonMobil is off the hook for billions in punitive damages related to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. In 1994, the oil giant was ordered to pay $5 billion in punitive damages. In 2006, that amount was cut to $2.5 billion. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court slashed the amount once again, to $507.5 million. By a 5-3 vote (Exxon stockholder Samuel Alito sat out), the court reasoned ...
Topics: Alaska, Big Oil, energy, insanity, litigation, news, oil, politics (all these topics)

Hell Nay! We Won't Pay! Protests erupt worldwide over fuel prices		11 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 12:39 PM on 11 Jun 2008 Skyrocketing fuel prices show no sign of flagging, and no one's happy about it (except the occasional holier-than-thou environmentalist). Truck drivers and transportation operators have threatened to strike, gone on strike, or are still striking in Britain, France, Hong Kong, India, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, and Thailand. In some places truckers have quit the ...
Topics: business, energy, gas prices, insanity, news, Spain (all these topics)

The Road to Recovery Commuting can drive you crazy -- no, literally		09 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:04 PM on 09 Jun 2008 Think your commute drives you crazy? Well, you might be right. In a culture so accustomed to being on-the-go, sitting immobile in traffic for hours each day can take a toll on mental health, researchers say. "If you're stuck in traffic, there's a feeling of being out of control," says psychologist Laura Pinegar, who says she's hearing more and more complaints of traffic anxiety in her ...
Topics: cars, green living, insanity, news, placemaking (all these topics)

'You just gave my speech' Drilling for fossil fuels and subsidizing nuclear power: McCain energy policy	David Roberts	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
McCain reveals the heart of his energy policy: McCain was more gung-ho about nuclear power and expanded domestic drilling for oil and natural gas. When a donor in Richmond summed up his advice as, 'nuclear, and drill wherever we've got it,' McCain responded: 'You just gave my speech. Thank you, my friend.
Topics: energy, insanity, John McCain, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Me Tar Sands, You Insane U.S. emphasis on Canada's tar sands a bad idea, says report		04 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 2:43 PM on 04 Jun 2008 As the United States expands its oil-refining capabilities, more than two-thirds of planned capacity will be devoted to processing crude oil from Canada's tar sands, says a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project and Environmental Defense Canada. Tar-sands capacity is predicted to see a total increase of 1.9 million barrels per day, says the report, while conventiona ...
Topics: Canada, energy, insanity, news, oil, oil sands, United States (all these topics)

James and the giant lie Oklahoma senator makes stuff up, wastes time in climate change debate	Kate Sheppard	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the Senate's leading climate change denier, had plenty of kooky and alarmist things to say in yesterday's debate over climate change legislation. Think Progress has video of one of his wing-nuttiest contributions to the discussion, in which he lies about Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, and the IPCC: Yep, the same IPCC that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Gore.
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change skepticism, insanity, IPCC, James Inhofe, Muckraker, news, Oklahoma, politics (all these topics)

Who's protecting us from the gays? Conservative Christian group outraged that Congress is distracted by climate change	Kate Sheppard	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In today's daily action alert from the Family Research Council, President Tony Perkins bemoans the fact that the Senate is wasting time talking about climate change when the gays are still running around getting married willy-nilly: Now, fresh off a holiday weekend in which most families paid $4 a gallon to drive to neighborhood barbecues, American patience has worn thin. Imagine the frustration this week, as Congress returned to work -- not on judges, marriage, or ...
Topics: climate, insanity, legislation, Muckraker, politics, religion and spirituality, US Senate (all these topics)

News flash: Newton's laws were 'overthrown' Bizarre talking points of WaPo columnist Krauthammer	Joseph Romm	31 May 2008	Gristmill
Sir Isaac Newton is one of the towering geniuses in all human history. Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer? Not so much. Krauthammer has written a classic anti-science screed, 'Carbon Chastity: The First Commandment of the Church of the Environment,' that recasts many favorite anti-scientific denier memes in odd terms. You still hear and see all of these today, so let me touch on a few of them. And as I will discuss in Part 2, the article is most useful be ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, insanity (all these topics)

Notable quotable Fox News anchor calls for assassination of Barack Obama	David Roberts	26 May 2008	Gristmill
"... and now we have what ... uh...some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama ... uh ... um ... Obama [after being prompted by the FNC anchor] ... well both if we could [laughing] ..." -- Fox News anchor Liz Trotta, commenting on Hillary Clinton's invocation of Robert Kennedy's 1968 assassination Contact FOX: Teri Everett, Senior Vice President Corporate Affairs & Communications Phone: 212-852-7070 E-Mai ...
Topics: Barack Obama, insanity, politics, presidential race 08, quotables, TV (all these topics)

Notable quotable Direct and indirect ways of killing people	David Roberts	25 May 2008	Gristmill
'We're just damn glad to live in a free country where you can have a gun if you want to.' -- Mark Muller, owner of Max Motors in Butler, Missouri, which is giving away a free handgun with each purchase of a vehicle
Topics: cars, insanity, quotables (all these topics)

Nuclear pork: enough is enough No more subsidies for nuclear power, McCain et al	Joseph Romm	10 May 2008	Gristmill
Once your power source has reached, say, 10 percent of the electricity grid, let alone 20 percent, it should be time to cut the cord to government funding. Yet after more than $70 billion dollars in direct subsidies, billions more in insurance subsidies, plus another $13 billion available through the energy policy act of 2005, Sen. McCain and others still feel that climate legislation must not merely create a price for carbon dioxide that would advantage all carbon-free ...
Topics: energy, insanity, John McCain, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Emetic Justice Polar-bear listing would hurt the poor, says industry		09 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:10 PM on 09 May 2008 If the U.S. Interior Department decides that polar bears are endangered, litigation will be immediate from a group arguing that bear protection will "result in higher energy prices across the board, which will disproportionately be borne by minorities." So says Roy Innis, chair of the Congress for Racial Equality -- a recipient of Exxon funding that has recently aligned itself with ac ...
Topics: climate, endangered species, environmental justice, insanity, litigation, news, polar bears, politics (all these topics)

Mille grazie! Should we take Italian nuclear waste?	Joseph Romm	07 May 2008	Gristmill
So an industry CEO tells E&E News that nuclear is the only non-carbon baseload power (not!) and that therefore nuclear is our only future and since the United States does such a great job of dealing with low-level radioactive waste, we should become the world's repository. That would be the logic of one Steve Creamer, CEO of EnergySolutions, 'a full-service nuclear fuel cycle company' (in contrast to all of those 'partial-service nuclear fuel cycle companies,' so ...
Topics: energy, insanity, Italy, nuclear power, recycling, waste (all these topics)

McCain campaign gets in on the anti-intellectualism	David Roberts	06 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: insanity, John McCain, oil, politics (all these topics)

That nuclear renaissance: any day now Industry bottlenecks will delay any reactors for years, maybe longer	John McGrath	06 May 2008	Gristmill
Kind of an important point: It turns out that Osaka-based steel-making giant Japan Steel Works Ltd ... is also the world's only maker of ultra-large forgings, a crucial component in the construction of most new nuclear reactors ...Japan Steel, for example, is currently equipped to supply only five reactor forging sets each year, with each set including an ultra-large forging. So, the nuclear industry that shills sources have assured us is ready to leap in to act ...
Topics: energy, insanity, nuclear power (all these topics)

Nukes for all McCain calls for 700+ new nuclear plants costing $4 trillion	Joseph Romm	06 May 2008	Gristmill
'A nuke in every garage' is the GOP nominee's energy and climate plan. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made a stunning statement on the radio show of climate change denier Glenn Beck this week: ... the French are able to generate 80 percent of their electricity with nuclear power. There's no reason why America shouldn't. The Wonk Room, which has the audio, writes of the interview, 'McCain Seemingly Agrees With Glenn Beck That Solutions To Climate Change Can Be Delayed.' ...
Topics: energy, insanity, John McCain, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Rejecting and renouncing	David Roberts	06 May 2008	Gristmill
Hillary Clinton has been pushing Congresscritters to take a stand on her gas tax gimmick. Now a group of 28 members of the House of Representatives have issued a statement in which they 'unequivocally' reject the notion of a gas tax holiday.
Topics: Congress, Hillary Clinton, insanity, oil, politics (all these topics)

McCain and Clinton: job killers	David Roberts	06 May 2008	Gristmill
According to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, the gas tax holiday proposed by John McCain and Hillary Clinton would destroy 23,107 jobs in California alone. UPDATE: Steve's got a point. The ARTBA report only criticizes McCain's proposal, because McCain proposes no replacement for the lost revenue. I should have looked more closely at the source report before passing this along.That said, this doesn't get Clinton off the hook. She's propos ...
Topics: Hillary Clinton, insanity, John McCain, oil, politics (all these topics)

I will bring oil to your house, carrying the barrels on my own back! Clinton vows to take down OPEC	David Roberts	05 May 2008	Gristmill
Now Clinton's going to dissolve OPEC: 'We're going to go right at OPEC,' she said. 'They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months in some conference room in some plush place in the world, they decide how much oil they're going to produce and what price they're going to put it at,' she told a crod at a firehouse in Merrillville, IN.'That's not a market. That's a monopoly,' she said, saying she'd use anti-trust law and the Worl ...
Topics: energy, Hillary Clinton, insanity, oil, politics (all these topics)

Why, Hillary, why? A gas tax holiday would be cynical and indefensible	Joseph Romm	02 May 2008	Gristmill
(I write this post with some sadness. I would not have expected a major progressive politician who obviously cares about global warming to propose a gas tax holiday, which has no public benefits whatsoever and at the same time undermines the entire rationale behind a national climate strategy that includes, as it must, a pricing mechanism for greenhouse gases. Kudos to Sen. Obama for opposing this absurd proposal -- double kudos because it might cost him a few vot ...
Topics: energy, Hillary Clinton, insanity, John McCain, oil, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Brand cites Grist	David Roberts	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Stewart Brand just stood up and used Grist (and Treehugger, and Worldchanging) as an example of how young environmentalists are coming around to support nuclear power.Huh?
Topics: nuclear power, energy, insanity (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	18 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'I think some people have overlooked the major news that the President made yesterday, which was committing a national economy-wide goal to halt carbon emissions.' -- White House spokesflack Tony Fratto, confusing a policy that would allow unrestrained growth of carbon emissions for the next 17 years for one that would 'halt' carbon emissions
Topics: climate, funnies, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, insanity, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Coke: 'it' with the foodies? Yes, according to a new 'artisanal' restaurant in Atlanta	Tom Philpott	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
A press release heralding a new restaurant in Atlanta crossed my email inbox recently. Everything seemed pretty standard at first: Holeman and Finch Public House, opening April 14, intends to serve 'food and drink ... with unrivaled quality and care.' The chef evidently revels in 'whole-animal preparations' and plans to make his own 'charcuterie such as coppa, bresaola, and tom thumbs.' Photo: Samuel Wong Sounds good to me. I applaud nose-to-tail cookery, ...
Topics: advertising, business, food, Georgia, health, insanity, messaging (all these topics)

Delta Sigh American filmmakers arrested in Niger Delta		15 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:58 PM on 15 Apr 2008 Four Americans working on the documentary Sweet Crude, about the impact of the petroleum industry on the economy and environment of the Niger Delta, were arrested in Nigeria this weekend and are still being detained. A Nigerian man accompanying them was also seized. Nigeria is Africa's largest oil exporter and the fourth-largest exporter to the United States, and its petroleum industry is infamous for pollut ...
Topics: energy, insanity, movies, news, Nigeria, oil (all these topics)

MoJo uncovers the eco-spies	David Roberts	11 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Mother Jones has a blockbuster scoop today on the private security firm that spied on green groups on behalf of corporate clients: A private security company organized and managed by former Secret Service officers spied on Greenpeace and other environmental organizations from the late 1990s through at least 2000, pilfering documents from trash bins, attempting to plant undercover operatives within groups, casing offices, collecting phone records of activists, a ...
Topics: business, Greenpeace, insanity, national security, shenanigans (all these topics)

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