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McCain’s running mate has offered mixed message on climate change

Sarah Palin, in her Sept. 11, 2008, interview with ABC News: “Show me where I have ever said that there’s absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect, or no effect, on climate change.” Palin, in a Newsmax interview last month: “A changing environment will affect Alaska […]

Eco-vandal pleads guilty to 1999 arson at Michigan State University

Alleged Earth Liberation Front member Marie Mason pleaded guilty Thursday to aggravated arson and conspiring to commit arson for her role in a New Year’s Eve 1999 fire that destroyed part of Michigan State University’s Agriculture Hall. Mason and her co-defendant (who has already pleaded guilty) were accused of pouring gasoline on and around records […]

Obama mentions green programs in 9/11 public-service forum

In separate sit-down interviews at the ServiceNation presidential forum at Columbia University on Thursday, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama spoke extensively about volunteerism and community service in commemoration of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks. However, of the two presidential hopefuls, Obama was the only one to mention energy policy or green-themed volunteer […]

What’s so eco about all those eco-meat labels?

In Checkout Line, Lou Bendrick cooks up answers to reader questions about how to green their food choices, and other diet-related quandaries. Free range: more sizzle than steak? Hi, Something I’ve been pondering a lot lately is the whole “free-range” meat market. After reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma, I have a lot of doubts as to […]

Palin parries with Charles Gibson on climate change

“Show me where I have ever said that there’s absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect, or no effect, on climate change.” Photo: Trica Ward In her first substantial interview with a news journalist since being picked as John McCain’s vice presidential candidate two weeks ago, […]

House Democrats unveil their energy package

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday unveiled an official version of the “Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act,” the House Democrats’ version of energy legislation slated for consideration next week. The bill would allow drilling 100 miles off the Atlantic coast and Florida’s Gulf coast; the buffer zone could be reduced to […]

A 9/11 SAT quiz

Hurricane Katrina is to global warming as 9/11 is to ________.

Let’s hear it for floor area ratio

There’s an interesting exchange going on between Kevin Drum and Matthew Yglesias regarding the reasons that some communities may or may not be walkable. It seems that the Woodbridge section of Irvine, where Kevin Drum lives, is quite walkable, but hardly anyone does it. Yglesias seems to feel that if an area is made fairly […]

Snippets from the news

• Sarah Palin sought millions in earmarks to study seal DNA. • Peak oil could help solve climate change, says study. • World Bank yanks corruption-tainted pipeline funding from Chad. • New book considers the ethical complexities of saving the environment. • Israeli contractors may have to plant a tree when they cut one down.

Some Palin energy expertise

ABC has released some excerpts of its interview with Sarah Palin, which will air tonight and tomorrow night. Asked if it would be worth it to go to war with Russia over the invasion of Georgia: [Putin’s] mission, if it is to control energy supplies, also, coming from and through Russia, that’s a dangerous position […]