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Tampering with the science
Henry Waxman weighs in on Bush admin. efforts to suppress climate science |
Brian Beutler |
10 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The House Oversight committee has released its official report (PDF) on White House efforts to interfere with climate change science, and its conclusions are ... well, totally predictable. To wit: The Committee's 16-month investigation reveals a systematic White House effort to censor climate scientists by controlling their access to the press and editing testimony to Congress. The White House was particularly active in stifling discussions of the link betwe ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate science, lying liars, politics, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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Tracking Lieberman-Warner
The problem with 150 amendments |
Brian Beutler |
05 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The Senate convened today at noon, and Republicans raised a stink about it. Why so late? Important business to attend to! It had to do with the 150 amendments that EPW committee Republicans brought with them to the markup hearing. The long and short of it is that, by Senate rules, any senator can object to the continuance of any committee meetings that continue beyond the first four hours that the Senate is in session. If the committee meeting and the floor ses ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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If it is to be war ...
Senate Republicans vow to filibuster energy bill |
David Roberts |
04 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The E&E headline sums it up: "Senate GOP plots 'war' over House energy plan" (sub rqd). It sounds like Pelosi has done her job, restoring to the bill most of the provisions greens have been stumping for, including the RES and removal of some tax breaks from the oil industry: House Democratic leaders today said the bill will include a roughly $21 billion tax package aimed at expanding renewable energy and energy efficiency incentives. Of that, roughl ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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Nefarious legislative shenanigans
Domenici tries to kill the energy bill and sneak nuclear loan guarantees into the farm bill |
David Roberts |
08 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) is up to some serious shenanigans up on the hill. First, he has introduced an amendment that would attach the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) to the farm bill. He claims he's trying to save the RFS, in case negotiations on the energy bill (where the RFS now lives) stall out. Senate majority leader Harry Reid opposes the move. Why? It's complicated, but the gist is that lots of folks -- Reid likely included -- see this as an attempt to sin ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, energy, legislation, politics, renewable energy, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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Permits for me but not for thee
Max Baucus wrangles a sweet deal for Montana rural co-ops in the Lieberman-Warner bill |
David Roberts |
07 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| One bit of shenanigans that went on in the backroom negotiations over Lieberman-Warner was the effort by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) to exempt his state's rural electricity cooperatives from the bill's tough emission reduction targets. Now the Great Falls Tribune has picked up the story: Montana's senior senator inserted a provision into a climate change bill pending in Congress that would give the rural electric co-ops in his state until 2035 to fully curtail their g ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, legislation, politics, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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Bombs Away
New Russian bomb not as eco-unfriendly as a nuclear weapon, says official |
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12 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 1:51 PM on 12 Sep 2007 Russia has tested the world's most powerful vacuum bomb, with an explosion as powerful as a nuclear weapon. But don't get the wrong idea: the Russian deputy armed forces chief of staff wants to stress that "the action of this weapon does not contaminate the environment, in contrast to a nuclear one." And to think we were concerned. source: Reuters < Previous | Next ... |
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| Topics: news, Russia, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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Larry Craig's 'wide stance' on coal and timber
The disgraced senator's real crimes go unpunished |
Tom Philpott |
04 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| In John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, a lowly cop finds himself assigned to lurk in a public bathroom, on the lookout for 'suspicious characters.' Sen. Larry Craig bumbled into just that sort of trap, his tapping foot and now-infamously 'wide' toilet stance dooming him to political infamy. There's no justice in entrapment, but there's ripe poetic justice in a stalwart of the gay-bashing GOP perishing from the very anti-gay fervor his party habitually stoke ... |
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| Topics: energy, politics, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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Dow Chemical, ChevronTexaco, and others remove controversial info from Wikipedia
Wikipedia Scanner reveals orgs that edit Wikipedia articles |
Chris Schults |
16 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Ah, Wikipedia. Many of us at Grist frequently use this resource, but we do so knowing that just about anyone can edit a Wikipedia article at anytime. So, can we really trust the information contained within? Fear not! As Wired reports, there is a new tool that sheds some light on who is editing what: On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of ... |
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| Topics: business, shenanigans, websites (all these topics) |
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Use the Task Force, Dick
Members of mysterious energy task force finally revealed |
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19 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Use the Task Force, Dick Members of mysterious energy task force finally revealed You might want to sit down for this: the Bush administration's national energy policy was heavily influenced by Big Industry. Shocking, we know. In 2001, a task force headed by Vice President Dick Cheney met with various entities to discuss energy policy; since then, the administration has battled to keep from sayi ... |
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| Topics: Big Oil, energy, news, politics, shenanigans, White House (all these topics) |
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All Is Not Well in La-La Land
Top Schwarzenegger air-quality officials depart under protest |
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03 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| All Is Not Well in La-La Land Top Schwarzenegger air-quality officials depart under protest If Arnold Schwarzenegger were a cobbler, his children would have no shoes. Or something like that. While the Governator has been busy spreading the climate gospel around the world, his air-quality agency is coming apart at the seams. Last week, Schwarzenegger fired Rob ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, news, politics, shenanigans, state politics (all these topics) |
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The Real Gains
As the G8 summit wraps up, a global movement gains steam |
Michael Levitin |
08 Jun 2007 |
Dispatches |
| is a freelance journalist living in Berlin. He has written for Newsweek, Slate, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Dispatch: 1 | 2 Friday, 08 Jun 2007 CAMP ROSTOCK, Germany Klaus had tromped through forests and across fields, marching 15 miles back here to his ramshackle tent at 3:00 in the morning, so it's understandable that he was too beat to be euphoric. He'd taken whacks from billy clubs and swallo ... |
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| Topics: climate, Dispatches, international politics, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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After the Storm
Reflections from the scene of this weekend's G8 protests |
Michael Levitin |
05 Jun 2007 |
Dispatches |
| is a freelance journalist living in Berlin. He has written for Newsweek, Slate, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Dispatch: 1 | 2 Tuesday, 05 Jun 2007 ROSTOCK, Germany If you dress head to foot in black, set cars on fire, launch stones and beer bottles at police, and brave hand-to-hand scuffles amid clouds of tear gas with choppers thundering overhead, best bet is you'll make the evening news. Which i ... |
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| Topics: climate, Dispatches, international politics, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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History Belongs to Those Who Dare to Rewrite It
Smithsonian allegedly revised exhibit to show climate 'uncertainty' |
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23 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| History Belongs to Those Who Dare to Rewrite It Smithsonian allegedly revised exhibit to show climate "uncertainty" In 2003, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History was accused of pandering to the Bush administration when a photography exhibit about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was relocated and downplayed. Now former museum administrator Robert Sullivan is charging that last ... |
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| Topics: climate, education, news, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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Friday Never Felt So Right
Interior officials messed with science, say witnesses at House hearing |
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11 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Friday Never Felt So Right Interior officials messed with science, say witnesses at House hearing Think you've had a rough week? Imagine how the U.S. Interior Department feels. This week saw a heated House hearing in which activists and former officials testified about Interior's nasty habit of meddling with science. "This is an agency that seems focused on one goal: weakening ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, news, politics, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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His Soul Goes Marching On
BP CEO John Browne and U.S. Interior Department official resign |
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03 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| His Soul Goes Marching On BP CEO John Browne and U.S. Interior Department official resign In one of the oddest corporate tumbles in recent memory, BP CEO John Browne has resigned over allegations that he lied in court about the origins of his four-year relationship with a male escort. Huh wha? Browne, who spent 41 years rising through the oil giant's ranks, was slated for early retirement this ... |
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| Topics: Big Oil, business, Department of Interior, news, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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He Also Tried 'Climate Fun Time Happypants'
Wolfowitz deputy allegedly tried to weaken climate-change message |
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26 Apr 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| He Also Tried "Climate Fun Time Happypants" Wolfowitz deputy allegedly tried to weaken climate-change message The brouhaha over World Bank head Paul Wolfowitz giving financial favors to his lady friend is spreading into a look at whether he's been pushing the Bush administration agenda on family planning and climate change. The bank's chief scientist, Robert Watson, says Wolfowitz deputy Juan José Daboub t ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, shenanigans, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Not In My Back Yardarm
Biggest U.S. oil-tanker company slapped with $37 million in dumping fines |
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22 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Not In My Back Yardarm Biggest U.S. oil-tanker company slapped with $37 million in dumping fines They would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling pipe fitters: the nation's largest oil-tanker company, Overseas Shipholding Group, will pay $37 million for gooping up U.S. seas. For nearly five years, the company's ships dumped waste oil and sludge off the coasts of ... |
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| Topics: energy, environmental justice, news, oil, renewable energy, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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Gag, You're It
Congress revisits issue of feds messing with climate science |
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20 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Gag, You're It Congress revisits issue of feds messing with climate science You've seen this show before, but now it's bigger, longer, and uncut: a heated hearing in Congress has exposed dark truths about federal interference with climate science. Brandishing more than 180 examples of doubt-injecting edits made to three climate reports, the House Committee on Oversight and Government R ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate science, James Hansen, news, politics, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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More House shenanigans
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David Roberts |
30 Jun 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Hm, turns out that Interior Appropriations bill has some nastiness in it too: The Senate Appropriations Committees has included language in the FY 07 Interior Appropriations Bill to exempt some logging projects on the National Forests from the normal citizen comment and appeal requirements. Section 426 of the Senate Interior Appropriations bill provides that projects "categorically excluded" by the Forest Service do not need to be subjected to pub ... |
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| Topics: politics, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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