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DNC: Convention thoughts at 3 a.m.
I’m here at the DNC convention with Kate, who I believe has done a couple of posts already. The reason I don’t know for sure is — it’s friggin’ insane here! I’ve been running at a full sprint since I got off the plane this afternoon. I’m typing this before collapsing into bed at almost […]
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Carl Pope on Big Oil politics
“The message ‘You’re too close to Big Oil’ will trump the message ‘I’m for drilling off the coast’ every time.” “The oil wing of the Republican party is like the mafia or the Crips or the Bloods — once you get in you can never get out.” — Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, on […]
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Delegates approve platform that embraces Obama’s energy plan
The Democratic Party today approved a platform that embraces presidential candidate Barack Obama’s energy policies. Included in it is his call for tax rebates to families struggling with high energy costs. In an op-ed in the Denver Post today, John Podesta and Timothy Wirth argue that the platform doesn’t go far enough on energy issues. […]
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Gary Hart talks to Grist about climate and energy policy and the next president
Energy, climate, and national-security concerns are inextricably joined in the modern political environment, says former Democratic Colorado Sen. Gary Hart. This fact should elevate sound climate and energy policy to a top-tier issue in this year’s election, he said, for both politicians and voters. “I think if ordinary, everyday Americans understood that we are sacrificing […]
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Who’s advising McCain on energy and climate?
Greenwire has also published ($ub. req’d) a detailed list of who is advising McCain on energy and environment policies, which I am reprinting below the fold. By contrast, McCain’s campaign relies on a small group of longtime friends and advisers. Campaign staff would not comment on why their advisory team isn’t as large as Obama’s, […]
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Why Biden is such an important pick for those who care about the climate
Catastrophic climate change is the primary preventable threat to the health and well-being of all Americans — as readers of this blog already understand and as pretty much everyone else will figure out in the coming years. Keeping total planetary warming as low as possible — ideally below 2°C, which it turn requires keeping atmospheric […]
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Mark Warner talks to Grist about his energy vision and upcoming keynote address
Mark Warner. Photo: John Rohrbach “I’m a big believer that to get the American people to agree on transformative change, you’ve got to show bipartisan support,” Virginia Democratic Senate candidate Mark Warner tells Grist. “And I think if we’re really going to get the change in the energy field, it’s going to take that.” Warner, […]
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U.S. foreign policy: GMO all the way
About a week ago, The New York Times ran a brief interview with Nina V. Federoff, official “science and technology adviser” to the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Not surprisingly, Condoleeza Rice’s science czar has a special place in her heart for genetically modified organisms. In the Times interview, Federoff defends […]
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T. Boone Pickens airs his first television ad
T. Boone Pickens — the conservative billionaire oil baron turned wind activist — just released his his first TV ad. Pickens has said that “we can’t drill our way out” of our energy problem, and in the ad he says that wind should be the primary energy source to help break dependency on foreign oil. […]
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Border-fence design exacerbated flooding along U.S.-Mexico border
The hastily built new fence along the U.S.-Mexico border has apparently exacerbated flooding in parts of Arizona and Mexico due to poor fence design. Environmentalists and others had warned the Department of Homeland Security that rushing border-fence construction could cause eco-troubles, but Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff nonetheless waived applicable environmental laws last year in […]
