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Regulating CO2 via the EPA would be a hugely significant move for the next president
Kate says: The Wall Street Journal spazzes out about Obama adviser Jason Grumet’s assertion that a President Obama would fight climate change under the Clean Air Act if Congress doesn’t move to address the issue within 18 months. In what may be a historical first, I actually think the WSJ editorial board is right about […]
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U.S. agrees to debt-for-nature swap to preserve Peru rainforests
In a bid to preserve some of Peru’s biologically diverse rainforests, the United States agreed this week to a $25 million debt-for-nature swap with the country, Peru’s second since 2002. Over the next seven years, in exchange for erasing millions of their debt, Peru will fund local non-governmental organizations dedicated to protecting tropical rain forests […]
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Defenders of Wildlife releases new ad on Palin and polar bears
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund has a new ad, this one on Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin and polar bears. It follows the group’s earlier ad on Palin’s support of aerial wolf hunting. “Sarah Palin’s active opposition to protections for polar bears is yet another example of her inability to listen and act upon scientific […]
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Oversight chair warns Bush administration against attempting to weaken the Clean Air Act
House Oversight Committee Chair Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) issued a warning [PDF] on Tuesday to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, apparently trying to head off at the pass any further attempts to weaken the Clean Air Act. There’s talk of yet another new rule soon to come from the Bush administration that would undermine the new-source review […]
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Auctions
Politico interviewed William Antholis, managing director of the Brookings Institution, about the connection between the environment and security, and among other things Antholis made this very smart observation: Q: What energy-related issues have the presidential candidates ignored during the campaign? A: What hasn’t really been fully debated, and where there is some difference between candidates, […]
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Green infrastructure spending is a win x 4
I’ve been inveighing for weeks that greens need to get involved in the coming battle over fiscal policy — to argue that the economic crisis militates for big, immediate (green!) public spending rather than the belt-tightening Beltway pundits reflexively demand from candidates. As I’ve been documenting, it seems elite opinion is generally swinging in the […]
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Breaking the mental habit of selective fiscal conservatism
“And if people ask how we’re going to pay for [renewable power and infrastructure investments], you tell them that if we can spend $10 billion a month in Iraq, we can spend some money to rebuild America.” — Sen. Barack Obama, to a crowd of 100,000 people in St. Louis on Saturday
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Where the presidential candidates stand on public-lands issues
We’ve heard the presidential candidates talk a lot about energy and a little bit about climate change on the campaign trail this year, but there hasn’t been much discussion about a whole host of other environmental concerns. Here we look at the statements and platforms of Barack Obama and John McCain on public-lands issues. […]
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The Governator gets it
“We must not give in to those that say that environmental goals should take a back seat until our economy comes back. It’s backwards thinking and just plain wrong.” — Calif. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, speaking to the Solar Power International conference
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The odd lies of Sarah Palin
Andrew Sullivan is tirelessly cataloguing and regularly updating the "odd lies of Sarah Palin" ("odd" because unlike normal politicians’ deceptions, they’re not exaggerations or misdirections or fuzzy interpretations — they’re just flat out denials of settled, documented fact, easy to debunk with a google search). Gristians may be particularly interested in lies four (endangered species), […]
