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Clinton bashes Obama on energy	David Roberts	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Clinton is attacking Obama over his energy bill vote in Penn. again. (More on the vote; more on the attacks.)You've got to know McCain is chuckling right now. He's having the easiest campaign ever!
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Green journalists out of touch?	David Roberts	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill
I've been thinking more about the SEJ event I wrote about here. It's been bugging me. To be honest, while I was quite impressed with the presidential advisers, the environmental journalists were ... disappointing. Right now there is so much interesting stuff happening around climate and energy -- policy details being hashed out, legislation being debated, important new aspects of the discussion getting attention, state efforts blossoming, international ...
Topics: climate, energy, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Surge II McCain's gas tax holiday from reality	Charles Komanoff	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
John McCain has a brilliant, original idea: Let's encourage Americans to drive more by lifting the gas tax for a summer 'holiday.'Presumably it's the same principle as the 'surge' in Iraq: so many soldiers are getting killed, let's send even more! Here are some guaranteed effects from McCain's brainstorm. It would: Deepen the federal deficit, thereby weakening the dollar. Increase gasoline consumption, in one stroke worsening highway gridlock, compounding U. ...
Topics: economy, energy, fossil fuels, John McCain, oil, politics, presidential race 08, regulation (all these topics)

Lapel-pin patriotism vs. protecting this country against its greatest threat True patriots would fight global warming	Joseph Romm	15 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- As you'll recall, Barack Obama made a controversial sartorial decision last October about what he will and will not wear on his lapel. He declared he will not wear one of those American flag pins that have become so popular among politicians since Sept. 11. 'I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest,' he said while campaigning in Iowa. ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

That weak-kneed presidential hopeful McCain reveals cynicism, hypocrisy with call for summer gas-tax holiday, energy budget freeze	Joseph Romm	15 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Any remaining glimmer of hope that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) might be the principled, non-cynical politician to transform our energy policy and avoid the dual calamities of peak oil and climate catastrophe died today. The Associated Press reported that: John McCain called Tuesday for the federal government to free people from paying gasoline taxes this summer ... aimed at stemming the public's pain now from the troubled economy. ... To help people weathe ...
Topics: Congress, economy, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Taking care of rural coal workers	David Roberts	14 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This WSJ piece on the battle over coal in rural (and important electoral swing) states is frustrating. On one hand, you have enviros, characterized as urbanites concerned exclusively with global warming. On the other hand, you have rural residents, characterized as concerned exclusively with keeping their mining jobs. Why is there no mention of the ways Dem candidates and enviros are attempting to address those concerns? No mention of the ways Obama and Clinton propos ...
Topics: business, coal, energy, green jobs, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

A surge of wonkery Presidential advisers discuss climate and energy on C-SPAN	David Roberts	14 Apr 2008	Gristmill
On Friday, C-SPAN hosted an event with energy/environment advisers from all three campaigns -- attending were Jason Grumet (Obama), James Woolsey (McCain), and Todd Stern (Clinton). (A slightly different threesome than the one I saw at the WSJ conference.) You can watch streaming video of the event here. I haven't watched through the whole thing yet, but thus far I just hear lots and lots of sensible thoughts and broad agreement. The moderators -- the excellent ...
Topics: climate, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Candidates on climate change as moral issue Clinton & Obama to be queried on CNN tonight at 8pm EST on climate	Erik Hoffner	13 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Dem hopefuls Clinton and Obama will participate live tonight in The Compassion Forum, a discussion of "pressing moral issues that bridge ideological divides" including poverty, AIDS, Darfur, human rights, torture, and ... drumroll please ... climate change. The pair will field questions from CNN and Newsweek talking heads as well as from members of the faith community. The Rev Sally Bingham, of the very cool Interfaith Power and Light Campaign will be asking ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08, religion and spirituality, TV (all these topics)

Gore should run!	David Roberts	09 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Part XXXVI
Topics: Al Gore, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Here come da judges	David Roberts	09 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Leslie Carothers makes the important point that the next president's judicial appointments will do as much to determine his environmental legacy as the bills he signs. (A point Joe Romm made a while back in a piece on McCain in Salon.)
Topics: legislation, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Democratically Challenged Dem delegates will compete to be most eco-friendly at convention		08 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:25 AM on 08 Apr 2008 As if the Democratic convention wasn't fun enough on its own, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced an exciting "Green Delegate Challenge" for the August rendezvous in Denver. State delegations are encouraged to buy carbon credits to support clean-energy projects in Colorado, and the delegation that offsets the most of its travel will reportedly get a brand ne ...
Topics: carbon offsets, elections, Nancy Pelosi, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Note to Newsweek McCain is closer to Bush than to the Democrats	Brad Johnson	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the Think Progress Wonk Room. Newsweek's cover story on the presidential candidates and global warming quotes UC Berkeley energy professor Dan Kammen, a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)'s presidential campaign: It's unusual to have a Republican candidate who openly disagrees with the Bush administration on the need for capping carbon emissions. There's more disagreement with the current administration than with each other. The idea t ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, George Bush, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain and perception	David Roberts	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Jerry Adler has a rundown on climate change in this year's presidential campaign. Somewhat miraculously for a mainstream publication like Newsweek, it's pretty good. This is a good point: So, ironically, McCain -- with a voting record that would put him at the bottom of the heap among Democrats -- is sometimes perceived as more passionate about the environment than his Democratic opponents, whose objectively much stronger records are viewed as a matter of party ...
Topics: John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain has done 'even more' than Al Gore on global warming At least, according to South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham	Joseph Romm	04 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.): 'Climate change is the road less traveled but he's traveled it even more than Al Gore,' Graham said. 'Al Gore has talked about it and deserves great recognition but he was around here a long time and never introduced a bill.' Let's see: McCain got 43 votes the first time he pushed his bill with Lieberman. He added some nuclear subsidies for the second go-round and got 38 votes. I'm not sure he can lay c ...
Topics: Al Gore, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Obama just can't quit Gore	David Roberts	03 Apr 2008	Gristmill
In response to a question about whether he'd consider Gore for a cabinet position, Obama said: I would. Not only will I, but I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring out how we solve this problem. He's somebody I talk to on a regular basis. I'm already consulting with him in terms of these issues, but climate change is real. It is something we have to deal with now, not 10 years from now, not 20 years fro ...
Topics: Al Gore, Barack Obama, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Obama and oil companies The latest primary dispute: Does Obama take oil money?	David Roberts	30 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This is a new ad from Obama, playing now in Pennsylvania: In response, the Clinton campaign rushed out a statement claiming that Obama does too accept money from oil and gas companies: According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Sen. Obama has received over $160,000 from the oil and gas companies. Two major bundlers for his campaign -- George Kaiser and Robert Cavnar -- are oil company CEOs. Sen. Obama has accepted money from Exxon, Shell, BP, Chevron and ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Big Oil, Hillary Clinton, oil, politics, presidential race 08, shenanigans (all these topics)

Things that make you go hm	David Roberts	28 Mar 2008	Gristmill
On Thursday at his speech on the economy, Obama was introduced by Michael Bloomberg. Today in an interview with a N.Y. TV station, Obama expressed his support for congestion pricing. Hmm ...
Topics: Barack Obama, cars, politics, presidential race 08, regulation (all these topics)

A Southern Baptist conversion to concern about climate change Young theologian discusses denomination's recent declaration	Kit Stolz	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Jonathan Merritt is a young theologian in Atlanta who broke into the national conversation this month by championing, within the conservative Southern Baptist faith, the declaration of a new set of principles regarding creation care and climate change. While noting continuing debate on some global warming questions, the declaration made a point of stating that we as a species can damage the planet and that such actions are wrong. The declaration stressed that 'we do not ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, politics, presidential race 08, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

BREAKING: Al Gore still not running, though superdelegates may force him to, only probably not	David Roberts	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
In his column today, Joe Klein spins out a preposterously unlikely scenario whereby the Democratic superdelegates get together and conspire to pass over both Obama and Clinton and instead hand the nomination to ... Al Gore. Two or three paragraphs in I thinking, oh, Joe, pish-tosh. Then: Pish-tosh, you say, and you're probably right. OK then.
Topics: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Notable quotable(s)	David Roberts	26 Mar 2008	Gristmill
'I am convinced that if we work at it, we will be able to convince India and China that it is in their interest to be part of a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.' -- John McCain, March 2008 'One of the things I would do if I were President would be to sit the Shiites and the Sunnis down and say, 'Stop the bullshit.'' -- John McCain, May 2006
Topics: international politics, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Richardson endorses Obama	David Roberts	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Bill Richardson, who aspired to be the 'energy president,' has endorsed Barack Obama. In his endorsement letter, he cites race and this stuff: To reverse the disastrous policies of the last seven years, rebuild our economy, address the housing and mortgage crisis, bring our troops home from Iraq, and restore America's international standing, we need a President who can bring us together as a nation so we can confront our urgent challenges at home and abroad. Noti ...
Topics: presidential race 08, Barack Obama, politics (all these topics)

West Virginia, Mountain Drama Clinton and Obama boost coal in West Virginia		21 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:03 PM on 21 Mar 2008 Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both did some coal-boosting while campaigning in West Virginia this week. Clinton told West Virginians she's always been in favor of "the cleanest coal possible," but that "coal fits in very importantly" to America's energy future. Asked about mountaintop-removal mining in a radio interview Wednesday, she hedged, saying she didn't &quo ...
Topics: Barack Obama, coal, economy, elections, energy, green jobs, Hillary Clinton, mining, news, politics, presidential race 08, West Virginia (all these topics)

Now That's Richardson Bill Richardson endorses Barack Obama for president		21 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 12:08 PM on 21 Mar 2008 Sen. Barack Obama has been endorsed for president by New Mexico governor and former presidential racer Bill Richardson. Among other things, said Richardson, Obama "will make the historic and vital investments into renewable energy, to help create clean energy jobs and fight global warming." source:� MSNBC From the Archives A Doom With a Review. Report by ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, elections, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Foreign energy 'sources' McCain's crooked talk on nuclear power	Joseph Romm	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This week John McCain has an article in the Financial Times: "America must be a good role model." It has two paragraphs on the need for leadership on greenhouse gas reductions but endorses only one low-carbon energy source: Right now safe, climate-friendly nuclear energy is a critical way both to improve the quality of our air and to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources. That dependence, I am afraid, has become a vulnerability for bo ...
Topics: energy, John McCain, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Gaffe riot Clinton's MTR comments spark outrage	David Roberts	20 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Hillary Clinton's wishy-washy, confused comments on mountaintop-removal mining yesterday have set off an internet sh*tstorm. Appalachian Voices rounds up the outrage.
Topics: Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

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