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Paved With Good Intentions Green, Inc. author says big environmental groups have sold out to big business	Mark Pawlosky	03 Oct 2008	Grist Feature
For my money, there's nothing more delicious than a book that lays bare the rot of a corrupted industry from an insider's perspective. In the hands of a skilled observer, the subject can spring to life. Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis's hilariously disturbing account of Wall Street's investment-banking industry in the late 1980s, comes to mind. Green, Inc., by Christ ...
Topics: books, business, Conservation International, environmental movement, Nature Conservancy, shenanigans (all these topics)

Free Prius! Who will bail out the McMansion developers?	David Roberts	02 Oct 2008	Gristmill
If you think the economic downturn is bad for you, try being a developer of sprawly McMansion exurbs. Those dudes have it rough! Don't miss this hilarious story from Kaid Benfield, director of NRDC's smart growth program. So developer Gladstone Homes builds this development outside Chicago, in Plainfield, Ill., called Chatham Square, filled with McMansions 3,200 square feet and over, priced at over a half-mil a piece. You can choose from the Jadestone, the N ...
Topics: placemaking, Prius, shenanigans, sprawl (all these topics)

'Prosecution would focus the mind on the ethical problem' House holds hearing on MMS scandal; Kempthorne recommends ethics training	David Roberts	19 Sep 2008	Gristmill
On Thursday the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on the MMS scandal currently providing humorists with so many drilling puns. Pelosi's blog has an account of the hearing. (See also E&E News, $ub req'd.) The most amusing part was the righteous performance from Rep. George Miller, particularly this exchange with Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne: Kempthorne: '... I would like to initiate an outreach program so we do sit down and we go through t ...
Topics: energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, shenanigans, Department of Interior, politics, video (all these topics)

Pig poo Obama thinks the American people don't want diversions and manipulations ... but why?	David Roberts	11 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Obama responds to the trumped-up 'lipstick on a pig' controversy, whereby the media dutifully reported the McCain campaign's hilarious assertion that Obama was calling Palin a pig: Yes, the McCain campaign would love to have this kind of thing continue right through November. Obama thinks the American people would rather discuss solutions to the energy crisis and other such matters of governance and policy. But why does he think that? If the American people w ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, shenanigans, video (all these topics)

Sex, lies, and offshore drilling Sex and drug scandal at Interior could affect the offshore-drilling debate in Congress	Kate Sheppard	11 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Yesterday's revelation that 13 Interior Department employees who handle oil royalties are under investigation for allegedly engaging in illicit sex with and accepting gifts from employees of oil companies may affect the debate over drilling currently underway in Congress. An Inspector General's report describes a 'culture of substance abuse and promiscuity' at the agency, which is charged with issuing offshore drilling leases and collecting royalties from oil comp ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, Muckraker, offshore drilling, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, sex, shenanigans (all these topics)

Grease is the way we are dealing Interior Department employees under investigation for sex, drugs, and bribe scandal	Kate Sheppard	10 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Thirteen government officials are under investigation for allegedly engaging in illicit sex with and accepting a number of gifts from employees of energy companies, according to federal investigators. The probe involves Interior Department employees in the Denver and Washington offices, who handle billions of dollars in oil royalties. At the Denver Minerals Management Service, the former head of the Royalty-in-Kind office, Gregory W. Smith, used illegal drugs and ...
Topics: Department of Interior, Muckraker, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, sex, shenanigans (all these topics)

No way to bee EPA knuckleheads hide info on pesticide implicated in colony collapse disorder	Tom Philpott	20 Aug 2008	Gristmill
So there's this insecticide called clothianidin that seems likely to be implicated in colony collapse disorder. By the EPA's own reckoning [PDF], clothianidin 'has the potential for toxic chronic exposure to honeybees, as well as other nontarget pollinators, through the translocation of clothianidin residues in nectar and pollen.' Over in Germany, the introduction of clothianidin coincided with a sudden bee die-off, so German authorities recently banned it. They reckon ...
Topics: animal welfare, litigation, NRDC, shenanigans, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Twinkie lobby	David Roberts	15 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Photo: Nathan Pruzaniec I've been pondering writing something about this story in Politico, in which Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he's fine with any energy bill that doesn't "raise taxes," which is Republicanese for revoking some of the billions in tax breaks and subsidies U.S. taxpayers provide oil companies. McConnell is well aware that this completely ties Dem hands, since the leadership in all its wisdom decided Dems need to live by PA ...
Topics: brilliance, Congress, funnies, oil and gas drilling, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

All of the above minus one	David Roberts	14 Aug 2008	Gristmill
This is poison: If everyone agrees that we should do everything, why is it that we're spending so much time talking about drilling, and less time on other measures like conservation and alternatives? [Taylor Griffin, a spokesman for the McCain campaign] said because drilling is one area in energy policy where Obama and McCain disagree. "We're not talking about alternatives because we both support alternatives," he said. This is of cours ...
Topics: Congress, oil and gas drilling, politics, renewable energy, shenanigans (all these topics)

Republican rules The media will not tell the public the real story on the energy clash in Congress	David Roberts	13 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I'm not sure what's more astonishing, the current political drama around energy or the utter and complete failure of the media to portray it accurately. Let's recall what's happened over this past session. Congress had some 13 chances to support renewable energy, as bill after bill was put forward by Democrats. Republicans blocked them all. Now Republicans have gotten the idea in their head that drilling for oil in protected areas in the U.S. is a political winner, ...
Topics: Congress, mainstream media, oil and gas drilling, politics, renewable energy, shenanigans, tax incentives (all these topics)

Bluffing Republicans too sissy to shut down federal government over drilling	David Roberts	12 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Congressional Republicans -- and Newt Gingrich (wtf?) -- continue to threaten to shut down the federal government if Pelosi won't allow them an isolated up-or-down vote on oil drilling. I say: yes! Please, please, pleeease organize Congressional Republicans to stomp their feet and completely shut down the federal government because the majority leader won't give them exactly the vote they want, on the bill they want, when they want it -- a vote for boosting oil compan ...
Topics: Congress, oil and gas drilling, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

Republicans to try some Newt tactics Gingrich says Republicans will shut down gov't if they can't get a vote on drilling	Kate Sheppard	07 Aug 2008	Gristmill
One might recall that Newt Gingrich resigned his seat in Congress in 1998. But he was back on the Hill yesterday to join the House GOP sit-in, and now he's threatening that the Republicans will shut down government if they don't get a separate vote on offshore drilling. Perhaps he hasn't gotten the message yet that he is no longer an elected official. 'Are [Democrats] really prepared to close the government in order to stop drilling?' Gingrich asked. 'Because I ...
Topics: energy, Muckraker, Nancy Pelosi, news, Newt Gingrich, oil, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

A pox on the House Republicans continue shenanigans in the Capitol	Kate Sheppard	04 Aug 2008	Gristmill
As Grist reported, Republicans miffed about Congress going on August recess without a vote on offshore drilling started a sit-in in the Capitol on Friday. The shenanigans continued until police escorted the tourists out of the chamber at 4:30 p.m., and GOP lawmakers went home for the night. 'Today is the 2008 version of the Boston Tea Party,' said Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.). Missouri's Roy Blunt says: I'm not going home until you Show Me the drilling. Pho ...
Topics: Congress, Muckraker, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, shenanigans, video (all these topics)

Farm-subsidy shenanigans Beware of U.S. trade officials bearing gifts	Tom Philpott	25 Jul 2008	Gristmill
U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab made headlines this week by offering to reduce U.S. farm subsidies. The context was the so-called Doha Round of trade talks -- the WTO's latest, oft-stalled effort to grease the wheels of global trade. Among sustainable-food advocates, there's a reflexive tendency to cheer whenever farm subsidies go on the chopping block. But as is often the case in the farm-policy debate, this progressive-looking offer is anything but. First ...
Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, industrial ag, shenanigans, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

If By Clean You Mean Filthy On clean coal	Umbra Fisk	23 Jul 2008	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I noticed that several of the presidential primary debates were sponsored by clean coal. This was announced during breaks and several commercials aired. I have since seen several more commercials and online advertisements. Is clean coal an oxymoron? Is this a PR stunt or are there any real environmental benefits to clean coal that rival solar and wind? See www.americaspower.org. Andrew S. Brookline, Mass. Dearest An ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, climate, green living, greenwashing, mercury, shenanigans, toxics (all these topics)

Sounds like a good speech!	David Roberts	16 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, safely removed from any position from which he might actually do anything about it, discovers that climate change is real.
Topics: climate change impacts, politics, shenanigans (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)

Unfair and balanced Is NYT's Revkin pushing unjustified 'balance' in the Senate climate debate coverage?	Joseph Romm	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I like and respect Andy Revkin a great deal. He is one of the best reporters on climate and certainly the most prolific climate journalist now that he has his Dot Earth blog. But I must take exception to his recent posting, 'Climate Debate: Democracy In Action?' You would never know from his post that one side in the debate was desperately trying to save future generations from catastrophic warming and the other side was simply doing shameless political posturing. He ...
Topics: climate, John McCain, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

Notable quotable Inhofe: 'Hey, it's not our fault'	Kate Sheppard	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'All Republicans want just one thing, and that is to debate this bill ... When they pull the bill, I don't want them to say that Republicans had anything to do with it.' -- James Inhofe (R-Okla.) on the Senate floor Thursday, after Republican leadership spent nearly four days delaying debate of the Climate Security Act
Topics: jackassery, James Inhofe, politics, quotables, shenanigans (all these topics)

A taste of the fight ahead GOP circulating at least 90 weakening amendments to Climate Security Act	Kate Sheppard	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Senate Republicans are already circulating at least 90 amendments that would weaken the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. Here's a complete list of those we know about already, including measures that would add nuclear subsidies, lower emissions targets, and introduce a safety valve. And fight is only just beginning ...
Topics: climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans, US Senate (all these topics)

NASA inspector general: NASA suppressed climate science	David Roberts	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Remember when James Hansen made a big fuss, saying NASA has been distorting, downplaying, and outright censoring climate science? And conservatives launched a wave of personal attacks against him? Well according to NASA's inspector general, Hansen was right.
Topics: climate, climate science, James Hansen, shenanigans (all these topics)

Industrial ag-onistes The WSJ on fertilizer markets so manipulated, they might make a Saudi prince blush	Tom Philpott	30 May 2008	Gristmill
For all the misery it has caused, the global food-price crisis has at least forced people to think more seriously about food production. I can think of few things more taken for granted in modern post-industrial society than fertilizer. Few people know people know what fertilizes the fields that produce the food they eat -- fewer, I'd bet, than know the source of their drinking water or electricity. To modern consumers, all of these things appear as if by magic. But ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, industrial ag, shenanigans (all these topics)

He's no zero Republicans for Environmental Protection explains McCain ranking (or lack thereof)	Kate Sheppard	30 May 2008	Gristmill
Republicans for Environmental Protection gave John McCain a 'no score' on its just-released 2007 congressional scorecard, as David pointed out earlier. McCain missed all 14 of the votes on which REP scored senators, but the group opted not to give him a zero. Grist called David Jenkins, government affairs director for REP, to find out why. 'We thought the best way to treat this was to not score presidential candidate absences as a negative,' said Jenkins. 'It ...
Topics: John McCain, League of Conservation Voters, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

Recount	David Roberts	28 May 2008	Gristmill
I watched Recount last night, and my god, it is a gut punch.
Topics: green living, movies, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

Lobbying for the enemy of the human race	David Roberts	27 May 2008	Gristmill
Million here, million there, pretty soon you're talking about real money: Peabody Investments Corp., a subsidiary of coal producer Peabody Energy Corp., spent nearly $1.3 million in the first quarter to lobby on issues related to the coal industry, according to a disclosure report. The company lobbied Congress on legislation involving renewable energy and energy independence, promotion of coal-to-liquid fuel, global warming, mine communications technology, tax cr ...
Topics: coal, energy, lobbying, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

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