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Obama on rail transit
A candidate finally discusses public transit ... at a random lunch |
David Roberts |
01 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| So I'm looking at this pool report from a run-of-the-mill day in the Obama campaign. Barack and Michelle dropped by to have lunch with an Indiana couple, Mike and Cheryl Fischer. Mike works in Amtrak's Beech Grove shop, as his family has for generations. Notes the report dryly: "No news." But I scan down a bit to the middle, where Barack's talking to Mike about his impending layoff at Amtrak, and suddenly my mouth is hanging open. Says Obama:The irony is w ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, placemaking, politics, presidential race 08, public transportation (all these topics) |
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Plan of surrender
Unlike McCain and Clinton, Obama would have us capitulate to Gas Price Terror |
David Roberts |
30 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Gas prices are high, which is the worst thing that's ever happened in the history of America, dating back to the time of the dinosaurs. It's a violation of the spirit of the Constitution of Independence as written by Jefferson Davis. We must declare preemptive war on gas prices before they destroy our freedoms, which they hate. Think of the children. How will they get to soccer practice? "Buy the kid a bike," says the Blame America First crowd. Thankfully ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, energy, legislation, oil, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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How I Spent My Summer Tax Vacation
McCain, Clinton support summer gas-tax rollback |
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29 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 5:39 AM on 29 Apr 2008 Hillary Clinton. Photo: Marc Nozell U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John McCain have said they support temporarily suspending the federal excise tax on gasoline and diesel fuel over the summer to ease the impacts of high fuel prices on consumers. McCain indicated he would shift revenue from other sources to cover the estimated $9 billion dip in highway infrastruct ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, news, oil, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Obama plays it straight
Energy prices that tell the truth: the real presidential litmus test |
Charles Komanoff |
27 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Calling all greens: Barack Obama, battling to remain the front-runner in the Democratic presidential primary, this weekend took on the most sacred cow in American politics: cheap gas. Campaigning in Indiana, Obama distanced himself from the gas tax 'holiday' proposed by Sen. John McCain, saying it may not bring down prices and would require raising other taxes to pay for highway maintenance. "The only way we're going to lower gas prices over the long ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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The Pennsyltucky perspective
No difference between McCain and Dems on climate |
Glenn Hurowitz |
22 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I got home yesterday from canvassing for Barack Obama in the outskirts of Harrisburg, Penn. and found last week's edition of The Patriot-News (whose politics reporter, Brett Lieberman, describes the state as 'Pennsyltucky' for its unique mix of urban, industrial, and backwoods), including a 'Find Your Match' voter guide with a chart that's supposed to help people figure out which candidate is closer to them on key policies. Here's what the chart said about Obama, Clin ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, greenwashing, messaging, Pennsylvania, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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John Voyage
McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin opens up on climate and energy |
David Roberts |
21 Apr 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Opinions differ on the quality of John McCain's domestic policy agenda, but you'd have trouble finding anyone in Washington who would disparage the man he's chosen as one of his top advisers. Douglas Holtz-Eakin has a dauntingly long resume and a reputation among policy wonks on both sides of the aisle for fair-minded number crunching. He has taught economics at top-no ... |
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| Topics: climate, elections, energy, interview, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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McCain's climate policy
A conversation with McCain policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin |
David Roberts |
21 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Opinions differ on the quality of John McCain's domestic policy agenda, but you'd have trouble finding anyone in Washington who would disparage the man he's chosen as one of his top advisers. Douglas Holtz-Eakin has a dauntingly long resume and a reputation among policy wonks on both sides of the aisle for fair-minded number crunching. He has taught economics at top-notch universities, served as a senior economist in both Bush administrations, and run the Congressi ... |
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| Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, interview, John McCain, legislation, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Dear Sir or Madam
Governors will pester candidates about climate |
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18 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 9:28 AM on 18 Apr 2008 A gaggle of governors will conclude a meeting at Yale with an agreement to pester the presidential candidates about climate change. Governors of 18 states, representing more than half of the U.S. population, pledge to "reach out to major presidential candidates as a means of shaping the first 100 days of the next administration." source: Reuters From the Archive ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, politics, presidential race 08, state politics (all these topics) |
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Climate 'central' to McCain's campaign?
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David Roberts |
17 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| In the course of an NYT story about McCain's tax policies (short summary: he wants to punch a $200b hole in the budget via regressive tax cuts), political reporter Michael Cooper says: One of Mr. McCain's tax proposals would take effect even before the Republican Convention: he called on Congress to suspend the 18.4 cent a gallon federal gas tax from Memorial Day until Labor Day. Mr. McCain said that doing so would provide 'an immediate economic stimulus,' but some ... |
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| Topics: climate, John McCain, legislation, messaging, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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A Jolly Good Time
British prime minister chats climate with Bush |
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17 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:25 PM on 17 Apr 2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was in Washington, D.C., Thursday to sit down for a chit-chat with President Bush. Brown told press that he and Bush "agreed we must work internationally to secure progress at the G8 and toward a post-Kyoto deal on climate change. ... I look forward to continuing to work with President Bush and his administration in taking it forward." (Taking what forw ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, climate, George Bush, Gordon Brown, international politics, news, politics, presidential race 08, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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Last night's debate
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David Roberts |
17 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I came in this morning planning to review last night's Democratic debate and blog about the energy/environment questions. Turns out there were none -- indeed, policy and substance were almost entirely absent from the debate. There seems to be broad agreement that it was a real low point for journalism, a gotcha-fest that illuminated nothing but the decadence of the establishment media. It did, however, produce one truly magnificent cultural artifact. Watch below as ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Clinton bashes Obama on energy
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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! |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, energy, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Green journalists out of touch?
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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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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. ... |
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| Topics: economy, energy, fossil fuels, John McCain, oil, politics, presidential race 08, regulation (all these topics) |
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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. ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, climate, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Congress, economy, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Taking care of rural coal workers
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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 ... |
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| Topics: business, coal, energy, green jobs, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08, religion and spirituality, TV (all these topics) |
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Gore should run!
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David Roberts |
09 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Part XXXVI |
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| Topics: Al Gore, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Here come da judges
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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.) |
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| Topics: legislation, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Democratically Challenged
Dem delegates will compete to be most eco-friendly at convention |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: carbon offsets, elections, Nancy Pelosi, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: carbon trading, climate, George Bush, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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McCain and perception
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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 ... |
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| Topics: John McCain, presidential race 08, politics (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, presidential race 08, John McCain, politics (all these topics) |
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