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Beijing officials consider extending some clean-air measures beyond Olympics
Beijing’s emergency measures to clear its famously polluted air during the Olympic Games have been largely successful, with the city reportedly experiencing the cleanest summer air it’s had for over a decade. But now that the Olympics are over, full-time city residents have been pointing out how pleasant breathable air has been and how nice […]
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Grist heads to the Democratic and Republican national conventions
David and I are bound for Denver this week, where we’ll be bringing you on-the-ground reporting from the Democratic National Convention. Immediately thereafter, we’ll be in St. Paul, Minn., for the Republican National Convention. Whose convention will be the greenest? Will I be able to track down one of those elusive organic-cotton fanny-packs? Will delegates […]
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Enviros generally pleased with Biden’s record on environmental issues
Joe Biden. Photo: Michael Millhollin In a 3 a.m. blast of emails and text messages, Democrat Barack Obama announced that his selection for a vice presidential candidate is Delaware Sen. Joe Biden. And, for the most part, representatives from the environmental community were pleased with the news they awoke to Saturday morning. During his 35 […]
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Reactions and info on Joe Biden’s selection to the Obama ticket
Biden, Biden, Biden. Everybody’s talking about Biden. I’ve rounded up some of the more interesting stuff below. Start, of course, with Grist’s fact sheet on Biden’s environmental record and our interview with Biden on environmental issues. Other green stuff: see a 2007 rundown on Biden from the League of Conservation Voters and this recent roundup […]
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Barack Obama and Joe Biden make their first public appearance as ticket mates
“We literally can’t afford four more years of this non-energy policy, relying on hostile foreign countries … literally putting America’s security at risk,” said Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, in his first speaking engagement as Barack Obama’s vice-presidential candidate today in Springfield, Ill. “Barack Obama and I believe — we believe with every fiber of our […]
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Barack Obama selects Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate
Joe Biden. Photo: senate.gov Barack Obama’s running mate will be Joe Biden. Here’s a fact sheet on Biden’s environmental record. Grist interviewed Biden in August 2007, when he was running for president. He said this about dealing with climate change: To deal with global warming, you have to change the attitude of the world, particularly […]
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Obama’s energy and climate advisors
Greenwire ($ub. req’d) has published a detailed list of who is advising Obama on energy and environment policies, which I am reprinting below the fold. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, has a notably deep bench of experts to help him answer key questions on energy prices, oil drilling and global warming I know most of them […]
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Pull the trigger, Barack!
Barack Obama could drop his VP announcement at any minute. Which is what we’ve been hearing all week, except now there are fewer minutes between the present and his big shindig in Springfield, Ill., tomorrow afternoon, when he’s supposed to appear with his new running mate. What we do know is that at some point […]
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Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney talks to Grist
Cynthia McKinney. Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney sums up her energy policy with a simple, memorable rhyme: “Leave the oil in the soil.” “Right now we’ve got two energy policies in this country,” McKinney told Grist. “One is war, the other is drilling. And neither one of them works.” It’s a message she hopes […]
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McCain stirs up tizzy in West with Colorado River comment
John McCain stirred up a tizzy last week with a comment about a Colorado River compact that allocates water among seven Western states. The compact “needs to be renegotiated over time amongst the interested parties,” McCain told Colorado’s Pueblo Chieftain. “I think that there’s a movement amongst the governors to try, if not, quote, renegotiate, […]
