John McCain
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McCain adviser repeats myths about climate change
Just a few months ago, Steve Forbes, editor of Forbes and an economic adviser to Republican presidential candidate John McCain, was assuring the base that McCain would abandon his call for a cap-and-trade system to regulate carbon emissions once he assumed office. Today, he pens a piece in his own publication rife with debunked climate […]
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McCain robocalls target Obama’s rhetoric on coal
The Republican National Committee and the McCain campaign have launched robocalls in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and other coal states attacking Barack Obama on the issue of coal. “I’m calling on behalf of John McCain and the RNC to tell you that coal jobs, which are so important to our community, are in jeopardy,” says the robocall. […]
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New McCain ad highlights him and Obama agreeing on global warming
The McCain campaign just released a new ad entitled “Obama Praising McCain,” which focuses on Barack Obama’s past praise for the global warming bill that McCain authored with Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). It features this remark from Obama, at a hearing of the Environment and Public Works Committee in January 2007: “The right approach begins with […]
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Sun, baby, sun
Earlier this week, I was at a solar meeting at the Arizona Biltmore, a schwank golf resort in Phoenix. During the meeting, McCain’s advance team poked their heads into the room. Apparently, the room we were using — the Casa Grande room of the convention hall — is the very same room where McCain is […]
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McCain adviser, unlike McCain, advocates stimulus spending
Martin Feldstein — a conservative Harvard economist and adviser to the McCain campaign — joins the call for stimulus spending: The president-elect should focus on developing a mechanism for identifying and funding spending initiatives that can occur quickly and that would otherwise not be done. While it would be good if some of the increased […]
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Nevadans miffed by McCain’s glib comment about nuclear safety
The Las Vegas Sun editorial board isn’t too pleased by John McCain’s “safe, environmental, blah blah blah” comment: Republican presidential candidate John McCain has said he would support the use of Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, as the dump site for the nation’s high-level nuclear waste. That is one of many reasons […]
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I guess they call them ‘talking points’ for a reason
Hey, remember how eerily similar the talking points on energy (and everything else) were at the three presidential debates? Well, 23/6 puts them all side-by-side. Energy portion is at 1:53.
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Surveys show Americans more concerned about energy prices than environment
Raise your hand if you’re more worried about gas prices than climate change. Voters continue to cite global climate change as one of several key issues that will affect their vote in this year’s election, but a broad range of opinion surveys conducted in the final months of the 2008 campaign reaffirm that economic issues […]
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Where the presidential candidates stand on endangered-species issues
Last week, we looked at Barack Obama’s and John McCain’s positions on public-lands issues. This week, we delve into their stances on another often-overlooked environmental topic: endangered species. The Endangered Species Act hasn’t been discussed much by the candidates this election season, but it has been in the news in recent months. In August, it […]
