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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
By Kate Sheppard John McCain gave yet another address on energy and environmental issues today (the third in the past week, if you're counting), this one focused on energy efficiency, which he says should begin at home with the federal government. "Energy efficiency is no longer just a moral luxury or a personal virtue," he told a crowd gathered at the Santa Barbara Museum of...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
By Kate Sheppard John McCain unveiled a new climate-change ad today -- hours before he's scheduled to give an energy speech in Texas that will call for building more oil refineries and lifting a federal ban on offshore oil and gas drilling. "John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming, five years ago," says the ad. "Today, he has...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
By Kate Sheppard John McCain has a new ad promoting his "Lexington Project" to move the country toward energy independence: As with previous ads , this one shows footage of windmills and solar panels, but I don't see any nuclear reactors. Odd, considering his love of nuclear energy and his plan to build 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030.
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
By Kate Sheppard John McCain gave another energy speech today (bringing the grand total in the past week to four ), this one in Las Vegas. It seems like the big new thing in this speech is that he's given a name to the various components of his energy plan that he's rolled out slowly over the past week: "The Lexington Project." "In recent days I have set before the American people...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
By Kate Sheppard John McCain released a new ad today touting his plan for energy independence. "We must shift our entire energy economy toward new and cleaner power sources such as wind, solar, biofuels," says McCain in the ad. "It will include a variety of new automotive and fuel technologies, clean-burning coal, and nuclear energy." It also promotes his recent call to...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
By Kate Sheppard John McCain's call this week for an end to the moratorium on offshore drilling isn't faring well with environmentalists across the country. In one key state, however, it might really come back to bite him come November. Florida -- yes, land of dangling chads and nearly-won elections -- may well prove to be the place where McCain's call for drilling cost him in the general election....
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
By Kate Sheppard John McCain followed up yesterday's energy speech with more energy talk today during a roundtable at Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo. Today he focused more specifically on his support for two energy sources: nuclear power and "clean coal." The roundtable also featured Greg Boyce, CEO of Peabody Energy, the world's largest coal company, and Mike Chesser,...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
By Kate Sheppard John McCain on a windfall profits tax, in his speech on energy policy delivered in Houston yesterday: So what does Senator Obama support in energy policy? Well, for starters he supported the energy bill of 2005 -- a grab-bag of corporate favors that I opposed. And now he supports new taxes on energy producers. He wants a windfall profits tax on oil, to go along...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
By Kate Sheppard John McCain. John McCain will give a big speech on energy policy this afternoon to a group of oil executives in Houston, Texas. According to his prepared remarks, his address will highlight the need to forge a path to energy independence, calling for expanded domestic oil and gas drilling as well as a move toward renewable energy sources and conservation....
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
By Kate Sheppard John McCain is slated to give a major policy address on energy tomorrow in Houston, Texas. In a press conference today, he tipped his hand about what that speech will include: He says he'll call for federal limits on oil and gas exploration to be lifted, in order to allow states that want to permit exploration within their boundaries to do so. "I think that this,...
