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Is It Graduation Yet? Bush admin gets senior-itis, says it won't decide on emissions before term ends		11 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:32 AM on 11 Jul 2008 EPA head Stephen Johnson. Photo: epa.gov Instead of deciding whether greenhouse-gas emissions endanger human health and welfare and formulating standards to reduce them -- as the Supreme Court ordered -- the EPA will run out the clock for the next few months soliciting more public comment. The Supreme Court ordered the EPA last year to decide on the GHG-endanger ...
Topics: climate, news, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Ventura capitol Al Franken talks green jobs while Jesse Ventura threatens to bust heads	Kate Sheppard	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Minnesota Senate candidate and former funny-man Al Franken (D) recently put out a very, very sincere video on green jobs: Franken is taking on incumbent Norm Coleman (R), and polls so far have shown Coleman ahead by a considerable margin. But now former Reform Party governor, professional wrestler, and actor Jesse Ventura is threatening to jump in the race. 'All you Minnesotans take a good hard look at all three of us,' Ventura told NPR this week. 'You decide ...
Topics: elections, green jobs, Minnesota, Muckraker, news, politics, video (all these topics)

What's not the matter with Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius talks to Grist about her fight against coal and her VP potential	Kate Sheppard	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Among the many names swirling in the Obama VP buzz is that of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. A second-term Democratic governor in what's traditionally seen as a bastion of conservatism, Sebelius earned national attention as the chair of the Democratic Governors Association in 2007 and for delivering the Democratic response to this year's State of the Union. But for many environmentalists, she made her mark with something else entirely. Kathleen Sebelius. Photo: ...
Topics: interview, Kansas, Muckraker, news, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

Restating the obvious: Coal isn't renewable Alaska state legislature proposes fund to support alternative energy including coal	Sean Casten	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Alaska has proposed a $21 billion fund (Greenwire, $ub. req'd), which uses oil surpluses to support alternative energy projects, including: wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, tidal, biomass and a plant that 'produces ultraclean fuels from coal.' State Rep. Les Gara (D-Anchorage) responds: Coal is not renewable energy and by any fair definition it's not really alternative energy Sounds controversial!
Topics: Alaska, energy, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

Bingaman gets it right Smart ideas for post Lieberman-Warner climate policy	Sean Casten	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Lieberman-Warner had many, many, many, many, many problems. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) has just done a bit of musing ($ub. req'd) on what the next effort ought to look like; he has done a rather eloquent job outlining the problems with Lieberman-Warner and suggesting what lessons we ought to take from its failure as we advance to a better model. From Restructuring Today: The Lieberman-Warner bill didn't come close to making it through the Senate and climate legisla ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Notable quotable We're number one!	David Roberts	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter!' -- President George W. Bush, bidding farewell to the G8 meeting with a joke, upon which 'Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock
Topics: G8, George Bush, international politics, politics, quotables (all these topics)

A coalonial House Boucher's bill to fund CCS technology at the expense of rate-payers	Sean Casten	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
A few months ago, the debate about greenhouse gas policy in Washington was in the Senate focused on Lieberman-Warner. That effort ultimately failed, as a good idea (reduce GHG emissions within a market framework) got turned into a really crummy bill. Good intentions were bedeviled by lousy execution. Conventional wisdom says that the next effort to develop a U.S. GHG plan will emerge from the House, and specifically from the House Energy committee. This week, we g ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, Congress, politics, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Darth Cheney Cheney's office censors CDC director's testimony on climate-related health threats	Joseph Romm	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The Center for American Progress Action Fund emails out a great daily report (sign up here). Today's subject is Dick Cheney's one Vader man war to use Jedi mind tricks censorship to keep the American public in the dark side on the dangers of climate change. In this case, he censored the testimony on the 'health threat posed by global warming' by Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last October. She had planned to say the ' ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, health, politics, White House (all these topics)

Here comes the story of the hurricane If we're already in energy crisis, what happens when a major Gulf storm hits?	Miles Grant	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Yesterday, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said he'd be open to letting Big Oil drill on previously-protected public lands. And now this: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on President Bush to release oil from the government's emergency reserve to knock down gasoline prices she says 'are helping push the economy toward recession.'Pelosi, D-Calif., in a letter to Bush noted that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been used three times before and each time th ...
Topics: Congress, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, severe weather (all these topics)

Bad Reggie! Connecticut wants to hide carbon prices	Sean Casten	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is far from a perfect GHG bill. It is heavily allocation loaded, focuses only on a small sector of the economy (power plants 25 MW), and doesn't have any direct carrots to go with sticks. The good news, such as it is, is that RGGI leaves many details to the discretion of the states, such that they can provide state-level patches to correct those absences in the overarching model. They can also make it worse. Earlier this w ...
Topics: Connecticut, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics, state politics (all these topics)

The art of getting nothing for something Congressional Dems consider preventing oil drilled offshore from export	Adam Stein	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Any article on how politicians are gearing up to 'do something' about oil prices is bound to contain more than the usual share of silliness. Still, though, this managed to stop me cold: [Senator Harry Reid] also hinted at a potential element of compromise legislation: that any oil produced from wider access to federal lands off shore be reserved for domestic use and barred from export. Such a policy would, of course, be utterly useless in our highly integrated internati ...
Topics: gas prices, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Oil hysteria, part 3 Congress scrambles for short-term solutions to counter oil prices	Jon Rynn	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
I was afraid of this. The irrationality being exhibited about the price of gasoline is on prominent display this week in Congress. According to the New York Times article 'Congress feeling pressure for action on oil prices,' some of the things being considered are 1) drilling, of course, 2) anti-speculation legislation, and 3) 'incentives for renewable fuels,' ergo, corn ethanol. The most ironic idea, to me anyway, was Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) suggesting that voter ...
Topics: Congress, energy, gas prices, oil, politics (all these topics)

Something to 'Hyde Companies knew about high formaldehyde levels in FEMA trailers, Dems say		10 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 8:03 AM on 10 Jul 2008 Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said RV trailer manufacturers knew that the trailers they sold to the government had excessively high levels of formaldehyde but didn't disclose the information for fear of bad press. The trailers, which were used to house hurricane victims on the Gulf Coast, have been a touchy subject at FEMA ever since occ ...
Topics: business, news, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

The long journey from denier to delayer Bush hits the climate alarm snooze button at G8	Joseph Romm	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The NYT's Andy Revkin dissed the G8 climate statement with the blog headline, 'Rich and Emerging Greenhouse-Gas Emitters Fail to Set Common Long-Term Goal for Cuts.' The headline of the NYT's article on the subject, however, is 'Richest Nations Pledge to Halve Greenhouse Gas.' The Grist story begins, 'world leaders reached a landmark deal: agreeing to cut emissions in half by 2050,' calling it a 'significant step' for the Bush Administration, whereas NRDC's internatio ...
Topics: climate, G8, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Cap-and-traitor? Conservative blogger thinks McCain is ditching cap-and-trade	Kate Sheppard	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Larry Kudlow of National Review seems to think that John McCain has dropped his support for cap-and-trade, after reading the Republican candidate's policy pamphlet [PDF] on 'Jobs for America,' released this week. Kudlow notes that the document includes no mention of cap-and-trade, though there is a portion titled 'Cheap, Clean, Secure Energy for America: The Lexington Project.' He writes: So I picked up the phone and dialed a senior McCain official to make sure thes ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

World Bank responds to Guardian biofuel report Bank chief Zoelick hints his old boss Bush is full of it on biofuels and food prices	Tom Philpott	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
As I reported a few days ago, the Guardian recently uncovered what it called a 'secret' World Bank assessment holding U.S. and European biofuel boosterism largely responsible for the recent run-up in global food prices. You know, the one that has pushed 50 million new people under the poverty line globally, and essentially priced tens of millions of already-poor folks out of food markets. (The government-engineered biofuel boom has also unleashed a veritable tsunami of ...
Topics: biofuels, food, international politics, politics, World Bank (all these topics)

You win summit, you lose summit Not everyone jazzed about the G8 climate agreement	Kate Sheppard	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
While G8 leaders are touting yesterday's climate agreement in Hokkaido as 'a significant step forward,' enviros and other world leaders are scoffing at the very idea that any progress was made. G8 leaders agreed yesterday to 'consider and adopt' the goal of cutting emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050, though they didn't agree on how to reach those goals, or any of the other particulars that would need to be hashed out in a global deal. U.S. Climate Action ...
Topics: climate, G8, greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Goode grief Virginia candidates split on personal transit choices	Kate Sheppard	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Rep. Virgil Goode, the incumbent Republican in Virginia's 5th District, appeared in a Scottsville, Va. Fourth of July parade last week accompanied by a Hummer H3. His opponent in this year's House race, Tom Perriello (D), appeared on a float pulled by a biodiesel-fueled tractor. Perriello fans put together a video highlighting the candidates' automotive choices:
Topics: cars, Congress, elections, green living, Muckraker, news, politics, video (all these topics)

The Obama-vore's Dilemma Alice Waters: Dem candidate gets it on food issues	Tom Philpott	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
I read once that during the 1960 presidential campaign, John F. Kennedy met Norman Mailer, already a lion of American letters. If I remember correctly, Kennedy let slip that his favorite novel was Mailer's The Deer Park -- thus establishing his impeccable taste and intellectual rigor in the eyes of that mercurial novelist. Mailer went on to write about Kennedy as a kind of existential hero, doing his bit to burnish the Camelot mystique.A similar event has evidently happ ...
Topics: Alice Waters, Barack Obama, food, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Slowly But Offshorely, the Drills are Gonna Turn Top Dems in Congress open to possible compromise deal on offshore drilling		09 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:43 AM on 09 Jul 2008 Some key Democrats in Congress have said they're willing to work out a compromise deal to open some offshore areas in U.S. waters to oil and gas drilling. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said he's "open to drilling and responsible production." He also said that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid might also sup ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, United States (all these topics)

Notable quotable Oil in the ocean: light as a feather!	David Roberts	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
'These [oil] firms have learned a lot over the past two decades and three decades about their ability to go out and put a platform in water and extract oil and do it in a way that they're not causing any environmental harm at all.' -- White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto
Topics: dumbassery, energy, insanity, oil, politics, quotables, video (all these topics)

Cheney reaction Ex-EPA official details White House interference on climate action	Kate Sheppard	08 Jul 2008	Gristmill
In a letter [PDF] made public today, former deputy EPA administrator Jason Burnett indicates that both the Office of the Vice President and the Council on Environmental Quality have attempted to censor discussion of the consequences that global warming poses to human health. Burnett, who went public about the administration's obstruction after leaving the EPA in early June, detailed the interference in a letter to Environment and Public Works Chair Barbara B ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, jackassery, Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics)

We Said What We Parliament E.U. committee vote signals backstep from biofuels		08 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 5:11 PM on 08 Jul 2008 The European Union took another step back from biofuels late Monday, as the Parliament's environment committee approved 36-0 a proposal to lower the E.U.'s original target for biofueled transportation. The committee's proposal would have the E.U. source just 4 percent of transportation fuels from biomass by 2015, then do a major review before jumping to the current target of 10 percent ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, European Union, international politics, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

Energy ad wars begin New Obama ad knocks McCain's energy policy	Kate Sheppard	08 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Barack Obama's campaign has released a new ad to counter those from the Republican National Committee criticizing his energy plan. Obama's ad, called 'New Energy,' accuses opponent John McCain of being 'part of the problem' and hits on his support of drilling and tax breaks for oil companies. The ad says that energy independence is an 'urgent priority' for the Democratic candidate, and notes his plans to invest in alternative energy and tax cuts for the middle class ...
Topics: advertising, Barack Obama, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Summit of its parts Bush administration, other G8 leaders agree to halve emissions by 2050	Kate Sheppard	08 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Today at the G8 summit, which began yesterday in Hokkaido, Japan, world leaders reached a landmark deal: agreeing to cut emissions in half by 2050. The leaders agreed to 'seriously consider' this goal last year, and six of the eight leaders have been trying desperately to get George Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper -- who continued to resist mandatory cuts as of Monday -- on board. That is, until a breakthrough today. Well, sort of: The Bush admi ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international treaties, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

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