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Notable quotable Can you see Russia from behind that skirt?	David Roberts	09 Oct 2008	Gristmill
'This may sound gratuitous, but at least because Gov. Palin -- Sarah Palin is so persuasive, I would like to come to Alaska. I haven't been there in many years anyway, maybe I'll agree to go visit that area and have a look.' -- Sen. John McCain, continuing the slow walkback of his longstanding opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife
Topics: Arctic Refuge, John McCain, politics, quotables, Sarah Palin (all these topics)

Talking more about using less Ignoring efficiency, conventional wisdom holds that climate action will raise energy costs	David Roberts	09 Oct 2008	Gristmill
It's worth closely reading this Avery Palmer piece in CQ Politics: "The price of being green." It puts the frame around American energy/environmental politics in particularly crystalline terms. To wit: environmentalists want to raise the cost of energy while everyone else wants to lower it. Or more specifically: in order to lower greenhouse gas emissions, environmentalists want to put a price on carbon via a cap-and-trade system, which would have the ...
Topics: climate, energy, energy efficiency, gas prices, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

A bird in the Hannity McCain and Palin talk energy on with Fox's Sean Hannity	Kate Sheppard	09 Oct 2008	Gristmill
In an interview Wednesday with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Republican presidential candidate John McCain again suggested that he's willing to reevaluate his opposition to allowing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 'At least because Gov. Palin is so persuasive, I would like to come to Alaska. I haven't been there in many years anyway, and maybe I'll agree to go visit that area and have a look,' said McCain, responding to a question from Hannity about the dif ...
Topics: elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin, video (all these topics)

Fortunate Sonar U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in Navy sonar case		09 Oct 2008	News
Posted at 5:54 AM on 09 Oct 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the long-running dispute over the Navy's use of mid-frequency active sonar off the coast of Southern California. Environmentalists and wildlife advocates argued that restrictions on the Navy's use of sonar imposed by lower-court judges should be upheld -- at least until the Navy conducts its required environmental impact statement -- cit ...
Topics: litigation, news, politics, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Notable quotable Drilling we can believe in	David Roberts	08 Oct 2008	Gristmill
'Barack Obama opposed offshore drilling, but of course last night he changed his position on that. What that told me is that he's not willing to drill for energy, but he's sure willing to drill for votes.' -- Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin
Topics: Barack Obama, offshore drilling, politics, Sarah Palin (all these topics)

Pope and Pickens Sierra Club helps promote Pickens plan on debate night	Brad Johnson	08 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the ThinkProgress Wonk Room. ----- At 10 p.m. last night, the Sierra Club's Carl Pope and right-wing oil billionaire, T. Boone Pickens, began a live-streamed chat that had been advertised across the Internet as an 'e-rally' in response to the presidential debate. Pickens and Pope previously met in a discussion moderated by Center for American Progress Action Fund president John Podesta, in which the three found common ground on the question of g ...
Topics: California, environmental movement, natural gas, politics, state politics, T Boone Pickens (all these topics)

Like two peas in a pod Pickens suckered by Palin: 'She gets this energy situation'	Joseph Romm	08 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Yes, he loves wind power. But beyond that, I lose more respect for the oilman every day. Consider what he wrote on his blog Friday: Met with Sarah Palin the day after her debate with Joe Biden. She came to our Dallas offices with her husband, Todd, to talk about energy and the Pickens Plan ... Governor Palin comes from an energy state, and I'll tell you, she gets this energy situation. We talked about it like two oil and gas professionals. Pickens is calling ...
Topics: elections, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin, T Boone Pickens, wind power (all these topics)

Let's talk about caps, baby Enviros cheer debate talk about climate and energy, but want more details	Kate Sheppard	08 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Say what you may about last night's debate, but it was anything but boring for enviros. Even if the candidates largely recycled preexisting talking points on energy and climate, the mere fact that both issues got top billing in a presidential debate was an historic first. 'What strikes me as important is that energy has risen to the top of the list in terms of issues that people are concerned about right now. It's really energy, the economy, health care, and the w ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Put your money where his mouth is Why did McCain sell out to Big Oil? Ask Charles Keating	Joseph Romm	08 Oct 2008	Gristmill
John McCain's new coziness with Big Oil is in many respects just a replay of his old coziness with Charles Keating. In both cases, money and access bought influence. Let's start with oil. Last month, Time reported that McCain tapped a 'prominent Washington lobbyist,' William E. Timmons, Sr., to run his transition, should he win the election. Who does Timmons and Company lobby for? As of this year, they are getting about $100,000 a quarter from the American Petroleu ...
Topics: Big Oil, campaign contributions, elections, John McCain, lobbying, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

One swing voter, swung Ingrid Jackson's question about climate change put candidates on the spot	Kate Sheppard	08 Oct 2008	Gristmill
For the first time in this year's presidential debates, the two candidates were asked point-blank about what they would do to address climate change in the first two years of their administration. Ingrid Jackson asks the candidates about environmental issues. This morning, Grist caught up with the young woman who asked the question -- Ingrid Jackson, 30, a senior psychology major at Tennessee State University in Nashville and a Children Services Officer ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Bloc Party E.U. Parliament votes on proposals to cut emissions 20 percent by 2020		08 Oct 2008	News
Posted at 5:16 AM on 08 Oct 2008 On Tuesday, the European Parliament's environment committee voted on a range of proposals intended to help achieve the European Union's ambitious goal of cutting its greenhouse-gas emissions 20 percent by 2020. The committee voted to force E.U. utilities to buy all their pollution permits by 2013 and to enact strict carbon caps on power plants by 2015 that would essentially prohibi ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, European Union, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

'Safe or disposable or something like that' McCain mystified by Obama's concerns over nuclear	David Roberts	07 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Besides Obama's prioritization of energy, there was another particularly striking moment in the debate. (And I'm not talking about McCain referring to Obama as "that one.") In the midst of an answer on climate change, McCain said: Now, how -- what's -- what's the best way of fixing [climate change]? Nuclear power. Sen. Obama says that it has to be safe or disposable or something like that. Look, I was on Navy ships that had nuclear power plants. Nu ...
Topics: climate change, energy, John McCain, nuclear power, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Energy first Obama names energy as first administration priority	David Roberts	07 Oct 2008	Gristmill
The candidates have put forth ambitious proposals on a number of issues, but one of the great unanswered questions of the race has been what each would prioritize in office. The first policy initiative undertaken by the new president will benefit from a sense of first-term energy and momentum. Depending on what happens in ensuing years, there could be no choice about what becomes Nos. 2 or 3. Circumstances tend to intervene. So what's that crucial first priority? T ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, video (all these topics)

Climate's brief turn in the spotlight Obama and McCain asked directly about climate change at debate	Kate Sheppard	07 Oct 2008	Gristmill
The second 2008 presidential debate included a single, pointed question on global climate change from an audience member, but that didn't stop both candidates from working the issue of energy independence into their responses to all sorts of questions throughout the 90-minute faceoff. By and large, John McCain and Barack Obama stuck to their scripts on energy, arguing that the nation must invest more in alternative and renewable energy sources ... and rely ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate change, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Commerce clause The House Energy and Commerce Committee releases draft of potential climate legislation	Kate Sheppard	07 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) and ranking member Rick Boucher (D-Va.) released a 'discussion draft' of their long-awaited climate change legislation today. 'This draft is the culmination of nearly two years of intensive work on climate change by the Committee and marks an important step in our ongoing efforts to address this increasingly serious problem,' wrote Dingell and Boucher in a memo to fellow committee members [PDF] today. 'Poli ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

60 Republican congresscritters are in serious trouble	David Roberts	07 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Remember when "drill, baby, drill" was going to reverse a horrible electoral year for Republicans in Congress? Turns out maybe not so much: The possibility that Democrats will build a muscular, 60-seat Senate majority is looking increasing plausible, with new polls showing a powerful surge for the party's candidates in Minnesota, Kentucky and other states. There's even a chance that Georgia's Saxby Chambliss -- proud possessor of a 0 percent rating from ...
Topics: climate, Congress, elections, energy, Georgia, politics (all these topics)

Miner offense Coal miners in West Virginia stay home in protest of anti-Obama NRA tactics	Kate Sheppard	07 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Coal production at the Blacksville No. 2 Mine in Monongalia County, W.Va., came to a halt for one day last week when all the miners stayed home in protest after a National Rifle Association camera crew tried to get them to bad-mouth Barack Obama on film. The United Mineworkers of America has endorsed the Democratic candidate for president, and union officials were miffed that the NRA was allowed on the property. Here's the story: Union officials say they took the day ...
Topics: Barack Obama, coal, elections, energy, mining, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08, West Virginia (all these topics)

MSM discovers MTR CNN reports on the battle for Coal River Mountain in W.Va.	Kate Sheppard	07 Oct 2008	Gristmill
In August, we brought you the story of Coal River Mountain, one of the last mountains in West Virginia's Coal River Valley that hasn't been destroyed by mountaintop-removal coal mining. Residents are lobbying to build a wind farm on the mountain, but Massey Energy is moving ahead on plans to strip-mine a 10-square-mile area of the mountain, regardless of whether they have the permits to do so. Yesterday, CNN covered the battle over Coal River Mountain and the pligh ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining, Muckraker, news, politics, video, West Virginia (all these topics)

Green Campaigner Committed environmentalist St�phane Dion faces uphill fight in Canadian election	Doug Struck	07 Oct 2008	Grist Feature
The delegates had worked for 36 hours straight at the international gathering in Montreal in 2005 intended to keep the Kyoto Protocol from stalling. The deadline to adjourn had passed, and so had a long night of high drama and low obstinacy. St�phane Dion. In the bleary dawn of 6 a.m., as the translators threatened to pack up and the janitors hovered to sweep the hall, con ...
Topics: Canada, carbon tax, elections, Kyoto Protocol, politics (all these topics)

The Jersey 'Sure' New Jersey moves to become premier U.S. offshore wind-power hub		07 Oct 2008	News
Posted at 6:51 AM on 07 Oct 2008 New Jersey this week opened a new front in its battle to be a leader in renewable energy generation. Gov. Jon Corzine (D) announced an ambitious goal to triple the amount of wind power the state plans to use by 2020 to 3,000 Megawatts, or about 13 percent of the state's total electricity. The wind-power goal is part of the effort to get utilities in the state to generate 20 percent ...
Topics: energy, New Jersey, news, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Hawk the Vote E.U. parliament to vote on climate proposals amid financial crisis		07 Oct 2008	News
Posted at 5:19 AM on 07 Oct 2008 Members of the European Parliament's environment committee on Tuesday will vote on key green initiatives proposed earlier this year, among them plans to alter the European Union's emissions-trading system, ramp up spending on carbon capture and storage technology, and eventually ban construction of new coal-fired power plants. The proposals are all part of the E.U.'s plan to cut gre ...
Topics: climate, European Union, international politics, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

Debate and switch Enviros suggest questions for Tuesday's townhall-style debate	Kate Sheppard	06 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Eleven days after their first matchup, John McCain and Barack Obama will meet again in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday night for a 'townhall format' debate. NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw will be the moderator, but it will be crowd members asking the questions, all of whom are supposedly undecided voters. There will be between 80 and 120 of these undecided voters in the audience; Brokaw will select about 15 of them to ask their questions. Chances are slim that any glob ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Que Sera, Sarah Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been lax on industrial pollution		06 Oct 2008	News
Posted at 5:01 PM on 06 Oct 2008 Though Alaska has a birth-defect rate twice the national average, and though exposure to industrial toxins has been strongly linked to birth defects, Gov. Sarah Palin has made little effort to keep industrial pollution at bay. To the contrary: Thanks to Palin's nod, Alaska is home to the only coastal fishery in the U.S. where oil companies can dump toxic runoff. In Feb. 2008, her admini ...
Topics: Alaska, health, news, politics, presidential race 08, Sarah Palin, state politics, toxics (all these topics)

Solar power and plug-in hybrids win big The energy tax credits in the bailout bill, part 1	Joseph Romm	06 Oct 2008	Gristmill
The bailout legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush on Friday has a $17 billion energy tax package. This post will focus on the clean energy credits. Part 2 will focus on the dirty ones. The biggest winner is certainly solar. As Scott Sklar, former head of the Solar Energy Industries Association and now President of the Stella Group summarizes: This package extends the 30-percent federal investment tax credit for both residential and ...
Topics: energy, energy subsidies, hybrids, legislation, politics, solar thermal power (all these topics)

She's got Obama's ear Obama adviser Heather Zichal talks to Grist about energy and climate	Kate Sheppard	06 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Heather Zichal. Barack Obama's campaign has a deep bench when it comes to climate and energy policy, one that includes scientists, policy wonks, and economists. On July 20, Obama added Heather Zichal to the team as policy director for energy, environment, and agriculture. Before coming to the Obama campaign's Chicago headquarters, Zichal served as the legislative director for Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), running both his domestic and foreign policy. In 2004, sh ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, interview, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

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