John McCain
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Spokesfolk from the presidential campaigns talk transit in Our Nation’s Capital
Via Greater Greater Washington, representatives for both Barack Obama and John McCain spoke on a panel about transportation here in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. Local radio station WTOP reports on what they had to say, at least about transit in Our Nation’s Capital: Where does your candidate stand on rail to Dulles? Mortimer Downey, adviser […]
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Small change
“It’s not insignificant, but it’s the cost of a paint shop in an auto factory.” — David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Michigan, on John McCain’s $300 million prize for a new electric car battery
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Global warming is an important issue for undecided voters
So says a poll [PDF] done by Yale and George Mason Universities. Some highlights: Nearly two out of three undecided voters say that the presidential candidates’ positions on global warming will influence their vote in the upcoming election, according to a new national survey released jointly today by researchers at the Yale School of Forestry […]
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Crist says McCain is a ‘strong proponent of climate change’
“He’s been such a strong proponent of climate change, and we all know how important the environment is to our fellow Floridians.” — Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R), referring to Republican presidential candidate John McCain on a recent conference call
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Short-term cost assessment skews the CW on carbon regulations
Joe says Andy Revkin’s article on the candidates’ climate plans is reasonably fair, and I suppose I agree. It’s fair as a representation of conventional wisdom, if not particularly accurate as a representation of reality. (That’s not Revkin’s fault — claiming one side in a dispute is correct, while both the other side and the […]
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Where the presidential candidates stand on public-lands issues
We’ve heard the presidential candidates talk a lot about energy and a little bit about climate change on the campaign trail this year, but there hasn’t been much discussion about a whole host of other environmental concerns. Here we look at the statements and platforms of Barack Obama and John McCain on public-lands issues. […]
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McCain ‘is not serious about clean energy and he has increasingly walked away from climate issue’
Andy Revkin has written a very fair-minded New York Times piece, "On Global Warming, McCain and Obama Agree: Urgent Action Is Needed." He notes: Both candidates say that human-caused climate change is real and urgent, and that they would sharply diverge from President Bush’s course by proposing legislation requiring sharp cuts in greenhouse gas emissions […]
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A roundup of environmental news from the presidential race
• The Wall Street Journal spazzes out about Obama adviser Jason Grumet’s assertion that a President Obama would fight climate change under the Clean Air Act if Congress doesn’t move to address the issue within 18 months. Obama, the paper fears, would wield the EPA’s “so-called ‘endangerment finding’ on carbon … as a political bludgeon” […]
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Grist poll: Which candidate has bucked his base more on the environment?
Now that we know both presidential candidates are OK with occasionally being unpopular — especially when it comes to the environment — who do you think has differed more from his base on this issue? </object> Quizzes by Quibblo.com