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New data: Green investment would produce about twice the jobs of Wall Street bailout
There’s been a bit of extremely stupid chatter in D.C. lately suggesting that somehow the financial storm could get in the way of action to combat the climate crisis. So I picked up my phone at Greenpeace and asked Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier of the University of Massachusetts to compare the economic effects of […]
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Where does McCain get his claim that nuclear will create 700,000 jobs?
In this post, I questioned John McCain’s claim that building 45 new nuclear reactors between now and 2030 would create 700,000 new jobs. I couldn’t find any numbers to back the claim up, and plenty of numbers that cast doubt on it. I contacted the campaign, and they sent along a 2004 study called "U.S. […]
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Avent v. Manzi re: global warming
Econ/placemaking blogger Ryan Avent (who, it turns out, also sings for Spoon) takes on everyone’s favorite Reasonable Conservative Jim Manzi on the subject of global warming, on BloggingHeads: Want to know why we’re doomed? Look no further than the first comment: I don’t think anybody is gonna do anything serious about gwarming anytime soon for […]
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Underdog Tom Allen attempts to unseat GOP incumbent Sen. Susan Collins
Maine’s Susan Collins (R) was one of just three senators to receive a perfect score on the League of Conservation Voters’ 2007 scorecard. The next-closest Republican on the list was Collins’ home-state colleague, Olympia Snowe, who earned an 80 percent mark. Susan Collins. Photo: susancollins.com Collins’ lifetime score after 11 years in office is significantly […]
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Congress looks set to let offshore and oil shale moratoriums expire
The Senate approved a resolution Saturday to continue funding the federal government through next spring, but the measure didn’t include any language on offshore drilling. This means that as of the stroke of midnight tomorrow, the moratorium currently barring drilling in the outer continental shelf that has been in place for 26 years will evaporate. […]
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Schwarzenegger to host climate summit of governors, world leaders
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has announced plans to host a climate-change summit in Los Angeles in November in an attempt to form an international climate alliance of local, regional, and world leaders ahead of United Nations climate talks in Poland in December. The summit invitees include governors from all 50 states, as well as […]
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In presidential debate, McCain misleads on nuclear power
John McCain made his central energy pitch in Friday night’s debate. It’s a short passage, but it is remarkable for the amount of nonsense it manages to pack in. 1. This came at the culmination of a discussion about cutting spending, with McCain touting his credentials as a fiscal conservative and even boasting of a […]
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Did House Dems kill renewable tax credit extension?
Sure looks that way. I wasn’t entirely thrilled with everything in the Senate bill. But given how dreadful congressional Democrats and environmentalists are at messaging, it is surely the best anybody could hope for. The House Dems threw out elements of the tax package that were crucial to get the support of Senate Republicans and […]
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Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, again
This is brilliant in every conceivable way: Note the inclusion of verbatim passages from the actual Palin interview. It parodies itself.
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Debate: spending
Last night moderator Jim Lehrer pressed the candidates about what spending priorities they would postpone or cancel in response to the financial crisis (a bit of framing I find maddening). In the heat of the debate I was irritated with Obama for not countering the frame directly. Going back and watching, though, he did seem […]
