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Bike-hatin’ DOT head Mary Peters warns of decline in gas-tax revenues
Mary Peters, President Bush’s Secretary of Transportation, is best known in green circles for blaming bike-riders and pedestrians for the decay of the nation’s roads and bridges. But green-transit-hating Peters seems to be singing a different tune, now that the Highway Trust Fund is threatened by a decrease in driving. Congress yesterday approved an $8 […]
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Reduced dominance is predicted for U.S.
While its conclusions won’t surprise Grist readers, this unusually savvy new intelligence forecast reported in today’s Post ought to serve as a wake-up call for the largely clueless “Establishment“: An intelligence forecast being prepared for the next president on future global risks envisions a steady decline in U.S. dominance in the coming decades, as the […]
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House Republicans push their drilling agenda and Dems don’t counter
The House Democrats, like their presidential nominee, appear to be on the verge of walking away from a winning strategy. On Tuesday, I noted, it looked like they were going to embrace the "Gang of 10" position on offshore drilling, which is obviously the way to go from both a policy and strategic messaging point […]
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Friday music blogging: Aaron Tippin
Newt Gingrich’s American Solutions for Winning the Future is an astroturf group funded largely by Republican billionaires. In the short-term, it’s designed to staunch Republican electoral losses in November by creating a new wedge issue: drilling for oil. In the medium term, it’s taking on a range of other right-wing campaigns. In the longer term, […]
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Environment and energy hot topics in Canadian election
Canada is gearing up for an Oct. 14 election between two main candidates with similar first names but little in common policy-wise. Liberal leader Stephane Dion is campaigning for a “Green Shift” that would include a carbon tax on most fuels, excepting gasoline. Revenue would be used to cut income and business taxes as well […]
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Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund endorses Obama-Biden ticket
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund today joined the growing list of environmental groups endorsing Barack Obama for president, citing John McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate as a major reason they will not endorse the GOP ticket. “John McCain’s choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate confirmed that the only […]
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Expanded transit can lead to energy independence
While the Republicans were busy chanting “drill, baby, drill” at their convention, they ignored a much better alternative: riding on buses and trains. As Diane Carman put it in The Rocky Mountain News: The irony was almost creepy. Thousands of Republicans were gleefully chanting “Drill, baby, drill” inside a convention hall in St. Paul, Minn., […]
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WRI updates chart of greenhouse gas targets in 110th Congress
As Kate reported in June, there’s a new climate bill in the mix in Congress, a fairly ambitious bill from Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.). The World Resources Institute has dutifully update its "Comparison of Legislative Climate Change Targets in the 110th Congress." Here’s the short story (click […]
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Pipeline to nowhere
Remember the natural gas pipeline that played such a big role in Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech? The one God himself blessed? One of the few actual accomplishments on her resume? Turns out not so much: The pipeline exists only on paper. The first section has yet to be laid, federal approvals are years away and […]
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Gingrich’s 527 group is a major player in this year’s elections
The following investigative report was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity and is reposted on Grist with CPI’s kind permission. —– Newt Gingrich appeared on C-SPAN’s morning program “Washington Journal” on August 6 to promote “Drill here. Drill Now.” Photo Courtesy of C-SPAN Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich isn’t running for president […]
