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Hot zones National Intelligence Assessment finds that climate change poses national security threat	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
A National Intelligence Assessment of the security challenges presented by climate change, which Congress requested last year, has been completed, and the intelligence community has come to the same conclusion that many have before: Climate change poses a threat to national security. The report looks at the national security implications of climate change through 2030, and concludes that changing weather patterns could contribute to political instability, dispute ...
Topics: climate, Muckraker, national security, news, politics (all these topics)

Return to sender White House refuses to open email about regulating greenhouse gases	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The White House has refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency's conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, and has told EPA officials that the email they sent containing the document of their findings would not be opened, reports The New York Times. Apparently the email in question has been hanging in limbo since December 2007, according to EPA officials. The document details the EPA's proposed response to the Supreme Cour ...
Topics: Ed Markey, fuel efficiency, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Climate change ideas for On Day One Day three of the UN Dispatch-Grist collaboration	Ideas for On Day One	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The UN Dispatch-Grist collaboration continues today with a discussion of the top user-rated idea on On Day One: 'Eat the View,' by Roger Doiron. This idea was so popular, it even found its way into The New York Times. Here's what he suggests: Announce plans for a food garden on the White House lawn, making one of the White House's eight gardeners responsible for it, with part of produce going to the White House kitchen ...
Topics: climate, food, gardening, local food, politics, White House (all these topics)

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)

'It is now' Obama lays out an energy vision that's economics and security first	David Roberts	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I just read the energy speech Obama gave on Tuesday in Nevada. I'd call it a TKO if I didn't sound so unconvincing using boxing metaphors. Watch what he leads with: "A green, renewable energy economy isn't some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future, it is now."This is what the campaign, correctly in my judgment, has decided people need to hear first and foremost: It's happening. People just like you, who live around here, are getting jobs doing this stuff. The Ob ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

'Bipartisan leadership for energy independence' Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith touts work with Obama in new campaign ad	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Republican Sen. Gordon Smith of Oregon is touting his work with Barack Obama to improve automobile fuel efficiency and his 'bipartisan leadership for energy independence' in a new television ad. Smith, the sole GOP senator on the West Coast, is fighting to maintain his seat this year in what's expected to be a tightly contested race against Democratic challenger Jeff Merkley. Watch it: The Obama campaign issued a statement yesterday on their candidate's appear ...
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, fuel efficiency, Oregon, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Obama on nukes RNC claims Obama contradicts himself on nuclear power	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Perhaps in response to Barack Obama's criticism of McCain on nuclear power yesterday, the Republican National Committee is circulating a research piece claiming the Democratic candidate has flip-flopped on the issue, citing quotes and videos of Obama. The quotes: From the CNN/YouTube Democratic debate in Charleston, S.C., in July 2007: 'I actually think that we should explore nuclear power as part of the energy mix. There are no silver bullets to this issue ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Muckraker, news, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Voters' Voices: Oregon Talking with voters in Portland about the environment and the election	Melinda Henneberger	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Photo: David Grant This is part of a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the environment and the election. Portland, Ore. -- Oh, the indignity of tooling around environmentally aware Portland in a big-dog SUV, in between conversations about the environment. Even the guy at the rental-car counter was apologetic: 'I know,' he said, when I gulped at the news that my economy car ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, Oregon, politics, presidential race 08, Voters Voices (all these topics)

Nevada say never again Obama heads to Nevada, takes on McCain in energy policy address	Kate Sheppard	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Not to let John McCain have all the attention on energy policy this week, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama gave a speech on energy today in Springs Preserve, a 180-acre area in Nevada dedicated to sustainability. 'What we are seeing here ... is that a green, renewable energy economy isn't some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future, it is now,' said Obama. 'It is creating jobs, now. It is providing cheap alternatives to $140-a-barrel oil, now. And it can c ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Revkin interviews Hansen	David Roberts	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Here, NYT reporter Andrew Revkin interviews climate scientist James Hansen about the 20th anniversary of his seminal Congressional testimony: More on Dot Earth.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, James Hansen, politics, video (all these topics)

House rules Select Committee acquires documents related to EPA's proposals for rulemaking on auto emissions	Kate Sheppard	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
We reported a few weeks ago that the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming had reached a deal with the White House to secure documents from the Environmental Protection Agency on its work in response to the Supreme Court's decision in the case Massachusetts v. EPA. We also reported that The Wall Street Journal had gotten ahold of an advance draft of the EPA's regulatory proposals for automobile fuel efficiency resulting from the Massachuse ...
Topics: Congress, fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Achieving the climate goal Short-term targets key to long-term stabilization	Tony Kreindler	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Ken Ward takes a worthwhile look at the goalposts for U.S. climate policy in his argument for making 350 parts per million the new bright line for success. We agree that we need to aim lower than 450 ppm -- the world is at roughly 380 ppm now, and we're already witnessing adverse climate impacts. But we part ways when it comes to how we're going to get there. Ward suggests that EDF's support for the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act can't be reconciled with a s ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, legislation, politics (all these topics)

That Holds No Water Mayors resolve to phase out city spending on bottled water		24 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 12:40 PM on 24 Jun 2008 The U.S. Conference of Mayors passed a resolution Monday to phase out city spending on bottled water. "Cities are sending the wrong message about the quality of public water when we spend taxpayer dollars on water in disposable containers from a private corporation," said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, adding, "The fact is, our tap water is more highly regulated than ...
Topics: food, local politics, news, politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

Climate change ideas for On Day One Day two of the UN Dispatch-Grist collaboration	Ideas for On Day One	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Our weeklong collaboration with UN Dispatch rolls on today with a discussion prompted by On Day One user taylorshelton who suggests government subsidies for non-renewable energy should be eliminated. Eliminate all subsidies for traditional fuels (coal, oil and nuclear) and invest all energy-related funds into renewable energy resources like solar, wind and cellulosic ethanol with the goal of completely eliminating dependence on fossil fue ...
Topics: Big Oil, climate, coal, energy, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

No McCain, no gain GOP candidate calls for energy efficiency in a California speech	Kate Sheppard	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain gave yet another address on energy and environmental issues today (the third in the past week, if you're counting), this one focused on energy efficiency, which he says should begin at home with the federal government. 'Energy efficiency is no longer just a moral luxury or a personal virtue,' he told a crowd gathered at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in California on Tuesday morning, echoing language from his June 17 energy speech. 'A sm ...
Topics: elections, energy, energy efficiency, John McCain, Muckraker, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

My kingdom for a so-called expert	David Roberts	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Sam Stein goes looking for an energy expert who will endorse John McCain's contention that oil drilling will provide short-term price relief. You can guess the rest.
Topics: energy, John McCain, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Nibbling the hand that supplies you Saudi Arabia to host summit on high gas prices	Joseph Romm	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Since when do we deal with our addiction by going to summits hosted by drug suppliers? Yet here is the Washington Post: 'Saudi Arabian Oil Summit Hopes to Isolate Cause of Price Rise' JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, June 21 -- Leaders from oil-producing and oil-consuming nations will meet here Sunday to try to pinpoint the reasons behind the rise in oil prices, which have doubled over the past year, and to find ways to bring them down. You cannot make this s ...
Topics: climate, energy, gas prices, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

Checks and the City Tokyo set to pass citywide cap-and-trade bill		24 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 8:32 AM on 24 Jun 2008 Tokyo, Japan, is on track to pass a bill on Wednesday that would limit the amount of greenhouse gases big companies in the city could emit, making it the first such mandatory program in the country. The city's 1,300 largest emitters are responsible for some 20 percent of Tokyo's total greenhouse-gas emissions. The bill aims to cap emissions from factories as well as office buildings starting in 20 ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Japan, news, politics (all these topics)

Put down the oil Increasing oil production will not substitute as energy solution	Michael Moynihan	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted on the NDN Blog. Yesterday, Saudi Arabia did what everyone -- including George W. Bush on bended knee -- has been asking it to do for months: agree to increase production. Prices closed up a dollar. The Saudi move and its non-impact on the market shows just how tight supplies remain. While it was designed in large part to offset declines in Nigerian production due to rebel violence in the oil-rich, poverty-stricken Niger Delta, it might have ...
Topics: energy, gas prices, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, Saudi Arabia (all these topics)

Notable quotable Hansen on fossil fuels	Josh Dorner	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
On tar sands, oil shale, the like, and global warming: 'If we use unconventional fossil fuels then there's no hope.' On the Bush-McCain plan for offshore oil drilling: 'It's just a crazy thing to do.' -- Dr. James Hansen, speaking at a National Press Club luncheon, which honored him and commemorated the 20th anniversary of the landmark 1988 Senate hearing on global warming.
Topics: climate, James Hansen, politics, quotables (all these topics)

A modern-day Cassandra Thoughts on the 20th anniversary of James Hansen's historic Congressional testimony	Representative Ed Markey	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy -- of seeing the future. But she was also cursed to have no one believe her. For far too many years, Dr. James Hansen has been a modern-day Cassandra. Gifted with a scientific training that allowed him to see the forces at work that are warming the planet, for too many years he was also not believed by many who chose to ignore or deny the scientific reality of global warming. Today, it is my pleas ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, Ed Markey, James Hansen, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Paul Revere rides again Hansen marks 20th anniversary of landmark testimony to Congress with renewed call to action	Kate Sheppard	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
James Hansen. Photo: nasa.govIt was a sweltering June 23 in Washington, D.C., when climatologist James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, appeared before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to testify about his certainty that the record high temperatures were the result of human activity. That was 20 years ago. 'The earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements,' Hansen told s ...
Topics: climate, climate science, James Hansen, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Maximum impact Will California's climate change regulations mandate maximum emission reductions?	Ken Johnson	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
[This post is follow-up to a David Roberts post from Jan. '08: "What does California's climate bill mandate?"] Sometime later this month, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) will release its draft 'Scoping Plan' on implementation of the state's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), which requires that statewide GHG emissions be reduced to or below 1990-level emissions by 2020. AB 32 also requires that the regulations ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change impacts, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

'New and cleaner' McCain ad touts energy policy, including the not-so-new ideas	Kate Sheppard	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John McCain released a new ad today touting his plan for energy independence. 'We must shift our entire energy economy toward new and cleaner power sources such as wind, solar, biofuels,' says McCain in the ad. 'It will include a variety of new automotive and fuel technologies, clean-burning coal, and nuclear energy.' It also promotes his recent call to end the federal moratorium on offshore drilling, which is neither 'clean' nor 'new.' Watch it:
Topics: energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, renewable energy (all these topics)

Climate change ideas for On Day One A UN Dispatch-Grist collaboration	Ideas for On Day One	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This week marks the twentieth anniversary of NASA Scientist James Hansen's groundbreaking Congressional testimony on global warming, an event that put climate change squarely on the political agenda. In honor of the anniversary, UN Dispatch, On Day One, and Grist are partnering to discuss ideas the next president can adopt to take on climate change. We are joined by a panel of experts who will weigh in on ideas submitted to On Day One by every ...
Topics: climate, energy, James Hansen, legislation, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

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