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DNC: Waiting for the main event
Obama to tout clean coal, nuclear, and renewables in his big speech |
Kate Sheppard |
28 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| David and I are in Invesco Field, among tens of thousands of delegates, reporters, and Denver residents awaiting Barack Obama's acceptance speech tonight. We're glad to be inside -- outside the line snakes more than a mile out from the stadium. They're expecting more than 75,000 attendees tonight, and the security line is a giant mess, according to folks we know still waiting outside. So far we've seen a whole list of party higher-ups, including Speaker of t ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, elections, energy, Muckraker, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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'Seven years to climate midnight'
Brookings calls for action on climate change in WaPo op-ed |
Joseph Romm |
28 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The uber-centrist Brookings Institution joins the climate alarmist realist crowd. President Strobe Talbott and VP for foreign policy studies Carlos Pascual explain in a Washington Post op-ed: The world may have only seven years to start reducing the annual buildup in greenhouse gas emissions that otherwise threatens global catastrophe within several decades. The politics are a little bland for my taste, but that's to be expected from Brookings, which has moved cl ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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You've Got a Visible Party Line
GOP platform acknowledges human-caused climate change, leaves out ANWR drilling |
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28 Aug 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 4:59 AM on 28 Aug 2008 The Republican platform for 2008, hammered out by the Republican National Committee ahead of the party's convention next week, is mildly greener than in 2004, making it "the greenest platform we've ever had," according to a member of the committee. The draft platform acknowledges humans' role in climate change but still takes digs at the issu ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, news, politics, presidential race 08, United States (all these topics) |
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DNC: On the platform
Delegates approve platform that embraces Obama's energy plan |
Kate Sheppard |
25 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The Democratic Party today approved a platform that embraces presidential candidate Barack Obama's energy policies. Included in it is his call for tax rebates to families struggling with high energy costs. In an op-ed in the Denver Post today, John Podesta and Timothy Wirth argue that the platform doesn't go far enough on energy issues. Podesta is president of the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff to President Clinton, and Wirth is president of ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, elections, energy, Muckraker, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Who's advising McCain on energy and climate?
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Joseph Romm |
25 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Greenwire has also published ($ub. req'd) a detailed list of who is advising McCain on energy and environment policies, which I am reprinting below the fold. By contrast, McCain's campaign relies on a small group of longtime friends and advisers. Campaign staff would not comment on why their advisory team isn't as large as Obama's, but sources say the staff's size reflects how frequently the Arizona senator departs from the Republican Party line on environment and ener ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Bona Biden
Why Biden is such an important pick for those who care about the climate |
Joseph Romm |
25 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Catastrophic climate change is the primary preventable threat to the health and well-being of all Americans -- as readers of this blog already understand and as pretty much everyone else will figure out in the coming years. Keeping total planetary warming as low as possible -- ideally below 2°C, which it turn requires keeping atmospheric concentrations of CO2 below 450 ppm -- will become the central organizing principle for all U.S. energy, environmental, economic, ... |
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| Topics: China, climate, international politics, politics, presidential race 08, Russia (all these topics) |
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Joe environment
Enviros generally pleased with Biden's record on environmental issues |
Kate Sheppard |
23 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Joe Biden. Photo: Michael Millhollin In a 3 a.m. blast of emails and text messages, Democrat Barack Obama announced that his selection for a vice presidential candidate is Delaware Sen. Joe Biden. And, for the most part, representatives from the environmental community were pleased with the news they awoke to Saturday morning. During his 35 years in the Senate, Biden has been most active on the Foreign Relations Committee, which he now chairs. But in tha ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, energy, Joe Biden, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Joementum!
Reactions and info on Joe Biden's selection to the Obama ticket |
David Roberts |
23 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Biden, Biden, Biden. Everybody's talking about Biden. I've rounded up some of the more interesting stuff below. Start, of course, with Grist's fact sheet on Biden's environmental record and our interview with Biden on environmental issues. Other green stuff: see a 2007 rundown on Biden from the League of Conservation Voters and this recent roundup from Greenpeace on his eco-record (I think they get the liquid-coal thing wrong -- more on that later). Here are Obama's ... |
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| Topics: elections, Joe Biden, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics) |
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Springfield has sprung
Barack Obama and Joe Biden make their first public appearance as ticket mates |
Kate Sheppard |
23 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| 'We literally can't afford four more years of this non-energy policy, relying on hostile foreign countries ... literally putting America's security at risk,' said Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, in his first speaking engagement as Barack Obama's vice-presidential candidate today in Springfield, Ill. 'Barack Obama and I believe -- we believe with every fiber of our being -- that there is not a single solitary challenge that we cannot solve if we level with the American pe ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, energy, Joe Biden, Muckraker, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Biden: his time
Barack Obama selects Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate |
David Roberts |
23 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Joe Biden. Photo: senate.gov Barack Obama's running mate will be Joe Biden. Here's a fact sheet on Biden's environmental record. Grist interviewed Biden in August 2007, when he was running for president. He said this about dealing with climate change: To deal with global warming, you have to change the attitude of the world, particularly China and India, the two largest developing nations. But in order to do that, to have any credibility, you have to be ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Joe Biden, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Obama's energy and climate advisors
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Joseph Romm |
22 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Greenwire ($ub. req'd) has published a detailed list of who is advising Obama on energy and environment policies, which I am reprinting below the fold. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, has a notably deep bench of experts to help him answer key questions on energy prices, oil drilling and global warming I know most of them well, and they are A-listers with deep experience in and out of government. During the Clinton administration, I had the pleasure to work with both ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Veep fatigue
Pull the trigger, Barack! |
Kate Sheppard |
22 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Barack Obama could drop his VP announcement at any minute. Which is what we've been hearing all week, except now there are fewer minutes between the present and his big shindig in Springfield, Ill., tomorrow afternoon, when he's supposed to appear with his new running mate. What we do know is that at some point in the next 24 hours, he'll unleash a flood of text messages and emails to supporters unveiling his selection. Grist promises the full green scoop after Obama ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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What is the carbon footprint of McCain's countless homes?
McCain's carbon dioxide bill is about 10 times the average American's |
Joseph Romm |
22 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I'd estimate it's about 150 tons of carbon dioxide, some 10 times that of the average American. But someone should ask Senator McCain. After all, he says he wants to require all Americans to cut greenhouse gas emissions 60 percent to 70 percent by 2050. As probably the whole country knows by now, John McCain does not know how many homes he owns. But the number seems to be between seven and 12, depending on whether you count his Sedona ranch as one house or six. ... |
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| Topics: ecological footprint, elections, green living, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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McKinney on the Record
Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney talks to Grist |
Kate Sheppard |
22 Aug 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| Cynthia McKinney. Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney sums up her energy policy with a simple, memorable rhyme: "Leave the oil in the soil." "Right now we've got two energy policies in this country," McKinney told Grist. "One is war, the other is drilling. And neither one of them works." It's a message she hopes will win over vot ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, energy, interview, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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The Colorado Barrier
McCain stirs up tizzy in West with Colorado River comment |
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22 Aug 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 8:01 AM on 22 Aug 2008 John McCain stirred up a tizzy last week with a comment about a Colorado River compact that allocates water among seven Western states. The compact "needs to be renegotiated over time amongst the interested parties," McCain told Colorado's Pueblo Chieftain. "I think that there's a movement amongst the governors to try, if not, quote, renegotiate, certainly adjust to the ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, John McCain, news, politics, presidential race 08, state politics, water conflicts (all these topics) |
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On the topic of overconsumption ...
John McCain doesn't know how many houses he owns |
Kate Sheppard |
21 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| GOP presidential candidate John McCain isn't sure how many houses he owns. 'I think -- I'll have my staff get to you,' McCain told Politico yesterday. 'It's condominiums where -- I'll have them get to you.' The correct answer seems to be somewhere between four and seven. The Obama campaign has already released this ad on the subject: UPDATE: The McCain campaign responds with the arugula defense: 'In terms of who's an elitist, I think people have made a judgme ... |
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| Topics: elections, funnies, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics) |
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Coal at the conventions
Group to spend nearly $2 million to promote clean coal at the conventions |
Kate Sheppard |
21 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| While both the Democrats and Republicans are touting their conventions as 'greenest ever,' some not-so-green elements are making their way in as well -- namely, nearly $2 million of coal advertising in and around each convention, sponsored by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. ACCCE will drop that large wad of cash to put representatives on the streets to talk to convention attendees about 'clean coal' and the role of coal in the energy portfolio, ... |
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| Topics: Democratic National Convention, elections, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, Republican National Convention, video (all these topics) |
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Back to whale oil
McCain claims 'the truly clean technologies don't work' |
Joseph Romm |
20 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Late last year, after his campaign tanked, no one was paying much attention to McCain. As a result, some of the amazing things that he believes didn't get a lot of attention, such as this Cheney-esque stunner: John McCain: 'When you say wind solar and tide, most every expert that I know says that, if you maximize that in every possible way, the contribution that that would make given the present state of technology is very small, is very small. It's not a l ... |
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| Topics: elections, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics) |
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MoveOn does N.C.
New MoveOn ad targets Elizabeth Dole and John McCain |
Kate Sheppard |
20 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| MoveOn is dropping a cool half a million dollars on a new TV ad in North Carolina that accuses Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R) of being 'in the pocket of Big Oil.' The ad highlights their support for tax breaks for oil companies. Dole is facing a tough reelection bid against Democratic challenger and state Sen. Kay Hagan (D). McCain is currently ahead of Obama in the presidential polls in North Carolina, but even though ... |
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| Topics: advertising, elections, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics) |
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Environment America endorses Obama
Exclude: Another green group backs the Democratic presidential candidate |
Kate Sheppard |
20 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Environment America today became the latest green group to endorse Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. 'Sen. Obama has publicly committed to fully addressing the pressing problem of global warming and moving the United States toward a new energy future,' said Margie Alt, executive director of Environment America. 'He has made clean energy one of the top issues of his campaign, and as a public servant representing Illinois at the state and federal level ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, elections, environmental movement, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Veep-stakes
Everyone's talking about Obama's VP pick |
Kate Sheppard |
20 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Barack Obama is expected to reveal his vice presidential selection sometime this week, possibly as soon as today, though it's looking like a campaign event in Springfield, Ill. on Saturday is the most likely location for an announcement. If you've turned on cable news in the past few days, the pundits have been jabbering non-stop about who he might select. Most speculate that the running is probably down to four possible candidates: Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, Kansas Gov ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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A Rig Deal
Visiting oil rig, McCain calls again for more offshore drilling |
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20 Aug 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 6:56 AM on 20 Aug 2008 Sen. John McCain visited an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana Tuesday, reiterating his call for more offshore drilling and bashing Barack Obama for not sharing his enthusiasm. "Sen. Obama opposes new drilling," said McCain, who himself opposed new offshore drilling until this summer. Actually, to the chagrin of enviros, Obama said recently that he'd consider voting for offshore ... |
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| Topics: energy, John McCain, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Putting lipstick on a rig
McCain visits an oil rig, repeats call for more offshore drilling |
Kate Sheppard |
19 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Hurricane Dolly blew away John McCain's planned visit to an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico last month, but the senator made another go at it today. On a Chevron-operated rig 150 miles off the coast of Louisiana, McCain reiterated his call for more offshore drilling and bashed his opponent for not being enthusiastic enough about oil exploration. 'Sen. Obama opposes new drilling,' said McCain (who himself opposed new offshore drilling until this summer). 'He has said ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, offshore drilling, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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The doomed fate of climate change legislation
In either an Obama or McCain adminstration, climate legislation will be back-burnered |
Jason D Scorse |
19 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Just months ago there was a palpable sense of optimism that no matter who is elected president this November that the U.S. would soon embark on serious climate change legislation. I think recent events have shown that the chances of that happening are slim to none. Let's start with if McCain is elected. Today the senator from Arizona is going to do a photo-op on an oil rig because he has become the biggest champion of increased drilling this side of the Middle ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, carbon trading, climate, John McCain, legislation, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Like water and oil
McCain suggests renegotiating Colorado River compact to benefit Ariz., Nev., and Calif. |
Joseph Romm |
19 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| What epic gaffe could unite Colorado's Democratic Senator Ken Salazar -- 'over my dead body' -- and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer -- 'Over my cold, dead, political carcass'? That would be Arizona Senator John McCain telling The Pueblo Chieftan on Thursady that he wants to renegotiate the famous 1922 Colorado River compact to take water from the so-called upper basin states, including Colo. and N.M., where the river originates and give it to lower b ... |
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| Topics: climate, Colorado, elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, water conflicts (all these topics) |
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