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David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.

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  • McCain’s free pass

    Great post from Hilzoy over at Obsidian Wings, starting with McCain’s confused statements on climate change, moving out to McCain’s confused statements on other matters of policy, and asking: why is no one in the mainstream media covering this? Why is McCain allowed to get away with it?

  • Are McCain’s environmental views really so far from Bush’s?

    The New York Times‘ Elisabeth Bumiller says, "On the environment … Mr. McCain has strikingly different views from Mr. Bush." Is that true? Bush wants unstinting federal support and pork for the nuclear industry. He supports "clean coal." He is against raising CAFE standards on automobiles or boosting efficiency and performance standards on other individual […]

  • Gore’s endorsement speech

    Here’s a live stream of Al Gore endorsing Barack Obama, starting any second now:

  • McCain campaign clarifies (some of) McCain’s climate malapropisms

    Earlier today, Kate reported on some confused remarks from John McCain on his plan for a carbon cap. Via Politico, the McCain campaign has now clarified the remarks. Here’s the original exchange: QUESTION: The European Union has set mandatory targets on renewable energy. Is that something you would consider in a McCain administration? […] MCCAIN: […]