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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Terry Tamminen: Legal strategies to address climate change There are some good ones	David Roberts	17 Jan 2007	Gristmill
DR: Let's talk legal issues. I can see the analogy between cigarettes causing lung cancer and burning oil causing asthma. You have a reasonably distinct causal chain. You can reasonably point to knowledge on the part of the oil companies. But when it comes to global warming, you have a long and tenuous causal chain, and ambiguous knowledge on the part of the bad actors. It's a kind of second-order externality. Do you think these global warming suits against, ...
Topics: climate, interview, Terry Tamminen (all these topics)

Terry Tamminen: Public transit Schwarzenegger wants more	David Roberts	16 Jan 2007	Gristmill
DR: There's always an emphasis on personal transportation. How do you kick start public transportation and more dense settlements? Did you guys make steps toward that in California? TT: We did. While Prop 87 was going down in flames a week ago, the $60 billion bond package for California infrastructure was passing, with several billion for mass transit. That's a first, because California's like most states -- it's up to local transit agencies to pay for buse ...
Topics: interview, public transportation, Terry Tamminen (all these topics)

Terry Tamminen: Leading by example The first step in international action	David Roberts	15 Jan 2007	Gristmill
DR: If you were emperor for a day -- or just president of the U.S. -- what would your international approach be? TT: No. 1 is to lead by example. When Tony Blair came can sat down with Arnold and I before the summit, he took us aside and said, "Look, what you are doing in California so crucial." When he hosted the G8 in 2005 -- whoever's the president of the G8 can pick two topics, and he picked Africa and global warming. On global warming, he adde ...
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Terry Tamminen: Nuclear energy and China's development China got troubles	David Roberts	14 Jan 2007	Gristmill
DR: Bush's token response to global warming is to argue for clean coal and nuclear power. To the extent he's involved in any international discussion, it's the Pacific pact, a trade deal with these emerging markets for old coal and nuclear technology. TT: Bush jumps in a long list of presidents of both parties who have not been able to deal with the [nuclear] waste issue in any meaningful fashion. And talk about a subsidized industry! Once upon a time we t ...
Topics: books, business, interview, nuclear power, oil, politics, Terry Tamminen, United States (all these topics)

Terry Tamminen: Iraq and energy security It's all about oil, baby	David Roberts	13 Jan 2007	Gristmill
DR: You say pretty openly that Iraq and a good chunk of our defense spending -- about half total federal expenditures now -- is about oil. Not very long ago that was written off as a hysterical lefty conspiracy theory. TT: Certainly with respect to Iraq, as the excuses get peeled away one by one, even people who wanted to give the president the benefit of the doubt have got to say, either the guy's an incompetent moron, which may be true, or he's been lying ...
Topics: energy, interview, Iraq, oil, Terry Tamminen (all these topics)

Terry Tamminen: Ethanol Let's wonk it out	David Roberts	12 Jan 2007	Gristmill
DR: On our site there are many people highly skeptical about biofuels. For lots of reasons: corn ethanol barely breaks even on energy balance. It's an environmental nightmare, with nitrogen fertilizers in the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. It is a commodity sector governed by a few massive multinational corporations, which are lavished with subsidies -- seems awfully reminiscent of the petroleum sector. The inevitable response to any criticism of corn eth ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, ethanol, interview, Terry Tamminen (all these topics)

Terry Tamminen: Hydrogen, batteries, and electric cars We will wonk you	David Roberts	11 Jan 2007	Gristmill
DR: You're a big supporter of hydrogen, which is a storage medium for electrical energy. Moving our transportation infrastructure to hydrogen means offloading the power burden from oil and liquid fuels to electricity sources -- predominantly natural gas and coal. How is that an environmental gain, to go from oil to coal? TT: It isn't, but that's a false choice. There are lots of other ways we get hydrogen that are a lot more efficient, cheaper, and more env ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, hydrogen, interview, Terry Tamminen (all these topics)

Terry Tamminen: Green progress and state climate plans The wonkitude continues	David Roberts	10 Jan 2007	Gristmill
DR: Over the past few years, the environmental movement has been in a period of self-flagellation about its ineffectiveness on the biggest issue of our time: climate change. You've been on both sides of the NGO/government divide. Do you have any words of wisdom on what environmental groups are doing wrong, or could do better? TT: The chamber of commerce, the oil companies, the big interests, are very well organized. They speak with one voice. When they come ...
Topics: interview, Terry Tamminen (all these topics)

Terry Tamminen: Prop 87, AB32, and RGGI (oh my!) More wonky interview	David Roberts	09 Jan 2007	Gristmill
DR: What happened with Prop. 87 [the Calif. ballot initiative to tax oil company profits]? TT: Well, it failed. It's amazing what $97 million of misleading advertising from oil companies will do, even against $50 million from proponents. And to be honest and fair, not all of it was misleading. Some of it was true. It would set up a new bureaucracy, which is a bad word to people. It didn't have any particular metrics, which is one of the things being argued b ...
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Terry Tamminen: Democratic Congress and Republican sincerity The first installment in the wonkiest interview ever	David Roberts	08 Jan 2007	Gristmill
A few months ago, I interviewed Terry Tamminen, author of Lives Per Gallon and, until recently, Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's top environmental adviser. We talked for well over an hour about a wide range of topics. An abridged version of the interview ran in Grist, but I thought some of the ultra-geeks here on Gristmill might enjoy seeing the whole thing. I'll be running it in installments over the course of the week. I apologize in advance if there's some overla ...
Topics: interview, Terry Tamminen (all these topics)

One Nation, Under Terry An interview with California environmental adviser Terry Tamminen	David Roberts	04 Jan 2007	Main Dish
Terry Tamminen is a compact, affable man. With his bluntness and lack of pretense, it's easy to see why Arnold Schwarzenegger trusted him. The California governor brought Tamminen on as his environmental adviser in 2003, elevated him to secretary of the state EPA, and then appointed him a senior cabinet adviser in 2004. In part due to Tamminen's behind-the-scenes influence and t ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, climate, interview, politics, state politics, Terry Tamminen (all these topics)

Terry Firma An interview with Terry Tamminen, Schwarzenegger's top enviro official	Mark Hertsgaard	19 Aug 2004	Main Dish
Terry Tamminen. Terry Tamminen, secretary of California's Environmental Protection Agency, may hold the most powerful environmental job in the U.S. outside of Washington, D.C. Not only is California the world's fifth-largest economy, it has long been an environmental trendsetter, pioneering standards in automobile regulation and alternative-energy development that have spread across ...
Topics: California, interview, politics, Terry Tamminen (all these topics)

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