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  • Oil geopolitics of the Georgia pipeline

    I’d like to be a fly on the wall for the upcoming talks between Condoleezza Rice and the Russian leadership. From The New York Times, May 6, 2006:  A day after chastising Moscow for its use of oil and natural gas as "tools for intimidation or blackmail," Vice President Dick Cheney visited Kazakhstan on Friday […]

    Tom Philpott Politics

  • TPM chats with Van Jones

    At Netroots Nation, TPM talked with Van Jones:

    David Roberts Culture

  • Quayle’s brain

    Advice that readers of The New York Times should consider every Monday: When asked about Kristol’s suggestion that Powell might attend the Democratic National Convention, former Reagan White House Chief of Staff and Powell confidante Ken Duberstein took a swipe at Kristol. “Consider the source,” said Duberstein, referring to Kristol who once served as a […]

    Adam Browning Politics

  • All of the above minus one

    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. […]

    David Roberts Politics

  • Priorities

    From earth2tech: In the last two days, the Department of Energy has announced $24 million worth of new investments in solar energy while also revealing it’s putting a whopping $340 million into yet more clean coal research. In conjunction with the funding announcements, the DOE says it’s "committed to … developing the technologies that will […]

    David Roberts Climate & Energy

  • Americans drive less, use less gas, buy fewer cars

    Americans are driving less, burning less gasoline, and buying fewer cars, and the feds have the stats to prove it. New numbers show that Americans drove 4.7 percent less in June 2008 than they did in June 2007, shaving off some 12.2 billion miles. For those keeping track at home, that makes a total 53.2 […]

    Grist staff Technology

  • Amid collapsing fisheries and factory-farmed salmon, how to choose sustainable seafood

    In Checkout Line, Lou Bendrick cooks up answers to reader questions about how to green their food choices and other diet-related quandaries. Lettuce know what food worries keep you up at night. Hello Grist, The food worry that keeps me up at night is how best to buy fish. Should I buy “wild caught,” with […]

    Lou Bendrick Food and Agriculture

  • McCain economics

    Here’s Obama’s new ad hitting McCain: I’m not entirely sure I get the Iraq bit. Is the Obama campaign now trying to cast Iraq as some sort of pampered welfare recipient? I know it now has an oil surplus, but it’s not exactly like they’re sitting pretty over there.

    David Roberts Politics

  • More ideas for a post-oil society

    This is the fifth in a series on how we can build an energy future based on our best science and no longer critically dependent upon exhaustible and polluting fossil fuels. Promoting battery and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles Governments can play a key role in promoting electric vehicles by buying electric vehicles en masse and […]

    Michael Hoexter Cities

  • Bush administration hustles through ESA rule change with minimal feedback; Obama opposes

    So, remember that proposed rule change for the Endangered Species Act, the one that would effectively gut it? A few interesting details. Normally, the Fish and Wildlife Service has a 90-day comment period for a rule change like this. When the draft of this rule change was first released, it was cut to 60. Now […]

    David Roberts Politics