Political Climate 2008 Archive


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January, 2008


EPA to California: Drop Dead
A Good Year for Greens?
Oil in the Arctic
POLITICS: How Green is John McCain?
POLITICS: Saving the Forests
POLITICS: Europe’s Biofuel Rethink
POLITICS: Diesel Delays Cost Lives
Losing the Bottle
POLITICS: Sinking Steve Johnson
POLITICS: Save the whales - and the rule of law

February, 2008


Clean coal plans go up in smoke
Super Tuesday: what’s at stake?
So long, product safety
The great science debate
A sign of things to come?
Where’s the beef?
What’s the matter with Canada?
Cleaning up Gert Town

March, 2008


Nixing Nader
Connecting the dots
The smog showdown
The bear necessities
Assault on the Clean Air Act
Boxing clever
Clinton’s coal dust-up
Follow the money

April, 2008


Oil barons for Obama?
Gunning for Gore
Slowly going nowhere
Can the GOP go green?
Too little, too late
John McCain takes tax breaks too far
Resisting wind power
Can you handle the truth?
More gas-tax hypocrisy

May, 2008


Greening the Capitol
Challenging the Arctic oil rush
EPA to okay rocket fuel in drinking water?
McCain’s climate plan falls short
Putting foie gras back on the menu
Cashing in on climate change
Battle of the bears
Bush’s bid for a blue legacy
The cost of doing nothing

June, 2008


Trying times in the Senate over Lieberman-Warner bill
How not to save the bison
The climate bill conundrum
Swamp wars: the battle for Florida's voters
More drilling isn't the answer
Stinking IRIS
Barack’s biofuel blooper
Mothra vs. San Francisco

July, 2008


Attack of the green bundlers
Merging NOAA and the US Geological Survey
Joking around at the G8
Offshore drilling and politicians: dumb and dumber
Ocean's "dead zone" continues to expand
Drill here, drill now, pay Newt Gringrich
Bush sprints to enact last-minute regulations
The FDA's salmonella snafu

August, 2008


USDA stops tracking chemicals
Why is San Francisco’s mayor opposing clean energy?
Bush neglects America's national parks
Bush pushes the Endangered Species Act towards extinction
Boosting utility companies' energy efficiency
Clean power is a dirty business
McCain in hot water out West
Obama-Biden: a green dream ticket?
Westward, ho! and the DNC
Energy debate lights up in Denver
Now, on to the Twin Cities

September, 2008


Palin an inexperienced VP candidate
GOPers look for Gustav's silver lining
RNC to America: It's the energy crisis, stupid
Democrats to allow drilling vote
Where the race stands
Oh, baby: sex scandal rocks drilling agency
Serve the planet, says Obama
Palin asks California to scrap pollution law
Presidential science lessons
Palin: A fading czar?
Animal lovers get political
Double-talk or nothing
Debatable tactics

October, 2008


The Palin problem
Arnold terminates green laws
VP debate: Polar opposites
Obama beats McCain on energy
What does the financial crisis mean for greens?
No easy answer to nuclear waste
Vegetable liberation
Time for a rainforest bailout?
Good oil, bad oil, snake oil
Can the US afford to go green?
Polluter pays? Not so much
A biofuel bailout? Don't bother
McCain hearts ethanol
The trouble with Ted
Palin talks energy policy


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