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LCV targets McCain’s record on renewable energy
The League of Conservation Voters released a web video on Friday targeting John McCain’s votes against renewable energy and efficiency, set to the tune of Simply Red’s 1989 hit “If You Don’t Know Me By Now.” LCV has endorsed Barack Obama, citing his plan for a new-energy economy: And in case you, like us, are […]
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We need a price-floor on fossil fuels
As oil prices tumble — now hovering around $65 per barrel — there is growing concern that some of the momentum that was building for renewable energy may be waning. This situation highlights one of the key constraints that we face in moving to a low-carbon society: uncertainty in fossil-fuel prices depresses investments in alternative […]
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Kentucky Republican McConnell calls himself the ‘Godfather of Green’ in reelection bid
Mitch McConnell. In January, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) released an ad for his reelection campaign in which he proclaimed himself the “Godfather of Green” and an “environmental champion.” Anyone who’s followed McConnell’s 24-year career in the Senate probably mistook the ad as satire. McConnell has earned an underwhelming lifetime voting score of 7 […]
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Spokesfolk from the presidential campaigns talk transit in Our Nation’s Capital
Via Greater Greater Washington, representatives for both Barack Obama and John McCain spoke on a panel about transportation here in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. Local radio station WTOP reports on what they had to say, at least about transit in Our Nation’s Capital: Where does your candidate stand on rail to Dulles? Mortimer Downey, adviser […]
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New LCV ad in Oregon calls for enviro backup in the Senate
The League of Conservation Voters is running this ad in Oregon promoting both Barack Obama and Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Merkley, whom the group has also endorsed. “How far would a rock star get without a band?” the ad asks. “Barack Obama will create new jobs and fight global warming, but he’ll need some help […]
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Maryland State Police wrongly list climate activists as ‘terrorists’
Chesapeake Climate Action Network founder and director Mike Tidwell, former deputy director Josh Tulkin, and another unnamed CCAN staffer were apparently classified by Maryland State Police as terrorists and entered in state and federal criminal intelligence databases between 2005 and 2006. It seems the police are now acknowledging that they were wrongly classified and […]
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Obama muses on the connection between energy/climate and our other problems
Obama sat down for a long and fascinating interview with Time‘s Joe Klein yesterday. It’s well worth reading the whole thing, but in particular there’s juicy stuff on energy and climate. The biggest problem with our energy policy has been to lurch from crisis to trance. And what we need is a sustained, serious effort. […]
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California’s Prop. 2 spurs big-bucks battle over farm-animal treatment
You can bet that if all the animals in America had televisions — as they do in San Francisco’s SPCA shelter — they’d be tuned in to California’s election returns on Nov. 4. A free-range chicken. On the ballot is an initiative — Proposition 2 — that is as potentially transformational for the treatment of […]
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Why renewable advocates oppose Proposition 7
This post is crossposted at Vote Solar’s blog. —– Proposition 7 [PDF] is a California ballot initiative that would dramatically increase the state’s renewable energy requirement to 50 percent renewably sourced by 2025. Yet most environmental groups and almost all renewable energy companies and trade associations oppose it. Why? The problem is not with the […]
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Global warming is an important issue for undecided voters
So says a poll [PDF] done by Yale and George Mason Universities. Some highlights: Nearly two out of three undecided voters say that the presidential candidates’ positions on global warming will influence their vote in the upcoming election, according to a new national survey released jointly today by researchers at the Yale School of Forestry […]
