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Clinton, Warner, and Schweitzer cite energy as they stump for Obama and bash McCain
In a rousing speech endorsing Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton said her erstwhile rival would “transform our energy agenda by creating millions of green jobs and building a new, clean energy future.” Virginia Senate candidate Mark Warner also addressed energy and climate (as he told Grist he would): “If […]
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Hillary Clinton says lots of good stuff on climate and energy
Hillary Clinton gave her much-anticipated convention speech this evening, to a very excited crowd. Seems everyone in the room had a “Hillary” sign, and the cheers were deafening. She said a lot of good stuff about climate and energy concerns, but I couldn’t quite get all of it. But cheers for these issues making it […]
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Montana guv brings the one-liners
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer was all over the energy issue in his speech tonight, ripping on John McCain’s policies and calling for a new energy future. “At a time when American families are struggling to keep their gas tanks full, John McCain voted 25 times against renewable energy, biofuels, solar energy. He even voted against […]
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Virginia Senate candidate focuses on energy and climate challenge
As promised, Virginia Senate candidate Mark Warner devoted a portion of his keynote tonight to energy and climate concerns. “Two wars, a warming planet, an energy policy that says let’s borrow money from China to buy oil from countries that don’t like us,” said Warner. “How many people look at these things and wonder what […]
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Bill Becker, head of the Presidential Climate Action Project, talks to Grist
Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project, is here at the Democratic convention talking about what the next administration will need to do on climate and energy. Becker is also the Wirth Chair in Environmental and Community Development Policy at the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Public Affairs. He was previously […]
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Grist talks to Freedom From Oil author David Sandalow
I caught up with David Sandalow yesterday, an expert on energy policy and climate change at the Brookings Institution. He was the assistant secretary of state for oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs from 1999 to 2001, and he served as a senior director on the National Security Council staff. He’s author of the […]
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Obama would make cap-and-trade program a top economic priority
Photo: barackobama.com Setting up a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse-gas emissions would be one of Barack Obama’s top economic priorities if he were elected president, right up there with a new health-care system, The Wall Street Journal reports. As part of an effort to cut emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, Obama would auction […]
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Daryl Hannah promotes eco-values at the Democratic convention
Actress and eco-activist Daryl Hannah is in Denver this week, where she’s promoting environmental awareness among delegates and other attendees. I ran into her accidentally while parking my bike, and was able to grab a few minutes to talk about why she’s in town and what she wants from our political leaders:
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What are the prospects for sound climate and energy legislation next year?
David and I caught up with Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) yesterday to talk about climate and energy politics, and the prospects for next Congress. Bingaman is the chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. We caught him after he appeared on a panel on “The Future of Environmentalism.” Bingaman stuck to a pragmatic […]
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President Bush exploring creation of massive marine sanctuaries in Pacific
On Monday, President Bush took the first step toward protecting three unique marine areas in the Pacific Ocean that are under U.S. jurisdiction, including waters around the Mariana Islands, Rose Atoll in American Samoa, and other coral reefs and atolls in the central Pacific. If all of the proposed areas are eventually protected, it would […]
