Coal and Obama's Veep Shortlist

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Tuesday August 12, 2008 · 7:00 AM PDT

2008/08/12 · 07:00

All the names on Obama's "short list" of running mates are not created equal when it comes to energy policy.

In fact, there's a tremendous contrast between Virginia Governor Tim Kaine and Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius.

Although the two have much in common politically, they've gone in opposite directions when it comes to dealing with one of the most important aspects of America's energy future: what is the role of coal?

One has been a visionary. One just a well-meaning but very conventional politician.

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Thursday January 17, 2008 · 11:58 AM PST

2008/01/17 · 11:58

Presidential candidate Barack Obama caused a commotion last year by promoting the controversial idea of turning coal into liquid fuel. The idea was controversial because the process could produce more global warming pollution.

Obama appeared to back off somewhat following criticism that liquid coal would undermine his own position (shared by Hillary Clinton and John Edwards) that global warming pollution should be reduced. Many of us wrote it off as a rookie mistake.

But now, with the Nevada caucuses looming, the Obama-coal connection has resurfaced.

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Tuesday February 13, 2007 · 7:39 AM PST

2007/02/13 · 07:39

General Electric has been praised by some environmental groups for a proactive approach to global warming. (The company eyes big bucks from sales of everything from windmills to nuclear reactors).

And GE relentlessly touts its "Ecoimagination" campaign, especially on GE-owned NBC.

But today's Wall Street Journal reveals that GE is lobbying behind closed doors against important EPA standards aimed at cleaning up dangerous diesel train pollution. More at http://blogforcleanair.blogspot.com/

Inhofe's last hurrah; and why Scalia wants to duck global warming decision

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Wednesday November 29, 2006 · 1:09 PM PST

2006/11/29 · 13:09

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), the soon-to-be-deposed chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is planning one last hurrah, and it’s going to be a doozy:

Inhofe is planning a hearing next week (likely Wednesday, Dec. 6). The theme is "global warming and the media." Yes, Inhofe is planning to blame the media for its role in informing the public about global warming. More on this at http://blogforcleanair.blogspot.com/...

Meanwhile, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said today he didn't want to "deal with global warming" because he can't tell the stratosphere from the troposphere. The transcript of today's court case is at http://www.supremecourtus.gov/...

Republican smackdown! Warner challenges Inhofe on global warming panel

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Friday November 17, 2006 · 2:07 PM PST

2006/11/17 · 14:07

Senator John Warner (R-VA) dropped a bombshell this afternoon, announcing he would try to bump Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) from his perch as the top Republican on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Inhofe vows to fight to retain his post.

The panel's new chair, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), has promised hearings on global warming starting in January. Inhofe is infamous for declaring global warming a hoax. Warner has seemed open to some sort of plan to limit global warming pollutants, though he has not backed a specific legislative plan.

Their statements are available at http://blogforcleanair.blogspot.com/

Robert Bork to Supreme Court: Support Bush on Global Warming

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Tuesday October 24, 2006 · 12:39 PM PDT

2006/10/24 · 12:39

It seems like only yesterday that Robert Bork was trying to get a seat on the Supreme Court.

Now, he's telling the High Court that Massachusetts, New York, California and other states don't have any right to bring a case about global warming.

In a brief (actually written by lobbyists for Southern Company, the big electric power company and global warming polluter), Bork argues that the states (plus New York City, Baltimore and environmental groups) don't have standing to sue.

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Thursday September 21, 2006 · 2:34 PM PDT

2006/09/21 · 14:34

For six years the Bush White House has distorted science to protect the power industry and other polluters from global warming controls.

Now they are at it again -- this time with national soot standards that won't require much in the way of cleanup.

In the process, the EPA disregarded its own science advisers, as well as that radical group, the AMA. More on this at http://cleanairwatchpressroom.blogspot.com/...

White House names regulation-hater as regulatory czarina

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Tuesday August 01, 2006 · 3:47 PM PDT

2006/08/01 · 15:47

President Bush has named anti-regulatory ghoul Susan Dudley as the new regulatory czarina at the White House Office of Management and Budget. http://www.whitehouse.gov/...

Dudley has been director of regulatory studies at the Mercatus Center, an alleged "think tank" underwritten by big polluters including Koch Industries. She has opposed tougher standards for smog and cleaner gasoline, among many other things.

Putting Dudley in this job is about as appropriate as naming Mel Gibson as a special Mideast Peace Envoy. Read More

Republican senators pressure EPA on clean air standards

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Thursday July 13, 2006 · 1:17 PM PDT

2006/07/13 · 13:17

An ugly scene today before a Senate subcommittee, as five Republican senators assailed any effort by the U.S. EPA to set tougher national health standards for deadly particle soot.

Ohio Senator George Voinovich, the ringleader of this effort to pressure EPA, suggested at one point that it might be "cheaper to buy everyone an air conditioner" rather than clean up the air.

More on this at http://blogforcleanair.blogspot.com/

Congressional kooks score technical knockout against global warming resolution

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Thursday May 18, 2006 · 2:17 PM PDT

2006/05/18 · 14:17

Key Republicans today axed a "Sense of the Congress" resolution expressing concern about global warming from spending legislation for the Environmental Protection Agency.

They knocked it out on a technicality.

Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, made a procedural point of order against the provision, claiming it constitutes legislation on an appropriations measure. The House Rules Committee permitted the maneuver following a plea by Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas). Read More

Congressional kooks score technical knockout against global warming resolution

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Thursday May 18, 2006 · 2:17 PM PDT

2006/05/18 · 14:17

Key Republicans today axed a "Sense of the Congress" resolution expressing concern about global warming from spending legislation for the Environmental Protection Agency.

They knocked it out on a technicality.

Catholic Church lobbies to back pedophile priests in MD

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Friday March 24, 2006 · 4:23 AM PST

2006/03/24 · 04:23

The Catholic Church is putting on a full-court lobbying press to kill Maryland legislation involving pedophile priests.

The legislation would allow more time for victims to file suits against sex abusers. Today's Washington Post (see below) reports on some of the disgusting details of this lobbying blitz.

One significant detail not covered: how much money the church spends each year on legal fees to defend these monsters. Read More

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Coal and Obama's Veep Shortlist

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GE's Hypocrisy: What happened to "Ecoimagination?"

Inhofe's last hurrah; and why Scalia wants to duck global warming decision

Republican smackdown! Warner challenges Inhofe on global warming panel

Robert Bork to Supreme Court: Support Bush on Global Warming

Bush protects industry through weak new soot standards

White House names regulation-hater as regulatory czarina

Republican senators pressure EPA on clean air standards

Congressional kooks score technical knockout against global warming resolution

Congressional kooks score technical knockout against global warming resolution

Catholic Church lobbies to back pedophile priests in MD