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Bush Strikes Clean Air Rules Protecting Parks
Washington Post
05/16/2008
The Bush administration is on the verge of implementing new air quality rules that will make it easier to build power plants near national parks and wilderness areas, according to rank-and-file agency scientists and park managers who oppose the plan.
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Unnatural Preservation
Missoula Independent
05/16/2008
In the age of global warming, public land managers face a stark choice: They can let national parks and other wildlands lose their most cherished wildlife. Or they can become gardeners and zookeepers.
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Hints on our brave new climate initiative aren't coming from the Liberals
Vancouver Sun
05/14/2008
As B.C. prepares to enter into a regional system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reporters were invited to a briefing Tuesday on the pending release of draft regulations for the scheme.
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Vancouver mayoral candidate tightlipped on carbon tax
Georgia Straight
05/16/2008
Both Gregor Robertson’s MLA Web site and his mayoral campaign site stress his environmental leanings. However, neither site has much to say on the carbon tax.
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Views: The bear necessities
Portland Oregonian
05/16/2008
The administration's clear reluctance in listing the polar bear as threatened highlights the need for a coherent climate policy.
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Views: At a crossroads in our energy policy
Portland Oregonian
05/16/2008
Last year, Gov. Ted Kulongoski and the Oregon Legislature approved a sweeping package of renewable-energy policies that immediately secured Oregon's place near the front of the sustainability frontier.
Now, however, we're faced with a very real affront to both our goals and our public image as a leader on sustainability: plans to import liquefied natural gas.
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Conspiracy Theory
Atlantic Monthly
05/14/2008
Climate-change litigation is heating up. Will the legal strategy that brought down Big Tobacco work against Big Oil?
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China's Silver Lining
Atlantic Monthly
05/14/2008
Why smoggy skies over Beijing represent the world’s greatest environmental opportunity.
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Dems, McCain Jockey on Environment
Washington Post
05/14/2008
Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are rejecting Republican rival John McCain's characterization of them as newcomers to the issue of global warming.
McCain (Ariz.) said Tuesday that voters would trust him more than the Democrats on climate change because he has focused on the issue since voters questioned him on it during the 2000 presidential campaign.
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Views: McCain's Green Streak
Eugene Register Guard
05/14/2008
The presumptive Republican nominee John McCain pioneered the issue of climate change in the Senate where he, along with Sen. Joe Lieberman, introduced the first Senate bill aimed at broad, mandatory reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in 2003.
Yet there was an undeniable sense that McCain made history in Oregon Monday, when he promised a radical shift from the Bush administration policy on global warming.
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Polar Bear Named 'Threatened' Species
Washington Post
05/15/2008
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne listed polar bears as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act yesterday, saying the loss of Arctic sea ice in a warming climate could drive them to the brink of extinction in less than four decades. This would be the first animal in the world to be labeled because of climate change.
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Vancouver, B.C. Mayoral Candidate Tightlipped on Carbon Tax
Georgia Straight
05/15/2008
Vancouver-Fairview NDP MLA Gregor Robertson won’t reveal if he’ll vote with NDP Leader Carole James in opposition to the B.C. Liberal carbon tax.
In a phone interview with the Georgia Straight from Victoria, Robertson, the one-term MLA and Vision Vancouver mayoral candidate, said he has not yet decided whether to support or reject B.C. Finance Minister Carole Taylor’s Carbon Tax Act, Bill 37, which currently sits at first reading in the legislature.
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Views: Refreshing Change for Global Warming Politics
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
05/15/2008
It's refreshing to hear that Sen. John McCain is willing to lead on global warming, based on the scientific consensus. We hope the next president will respect, use and incorporate the best science into the nation's policy decisions.
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Views: Harper Should Let Carbon Tax Breathe
Toronto Globe and Mail
05/15/2008
There are four reasons why Canada' Prime Minister should encourage, rather than stifle, debate on the climate-change measure.
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Alaska Officials Condemn Polar Bear Listing
Juneau Empire
05/15/2008
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she's disappointed by a federal decision to list polar bears as a threatened species but relieved by the conclusion that the cause was not petroleum development, the mainstay of Alaska's economy.
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Views: A Leader Who Gets Global Warming
Tacoma News Tribune
05/15/2008
However the presidential election turns out, the fight against global warming is going to have an ally in the White House next year.
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Shrinking Carbon's Muddy Footprint
Portland Tribune
05/15/2008
When the folks at Mount Hood’s Timberline Lodge decided to “green” their new ski lift, the equation was pretty simple. Figure out how much electricity the lift would use in a year and offset that with an annual investment in wind turbines or solar power. But, the issue is a little more complex than that.
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McCain Talks Climate in Washington
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
05/14/2008
Nuclear power should be part of the nation's strategy to reduce global warming, Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Tuesday during a campaign trip to Washington state that emphasized environmental issues.
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B.C. Drafts Climate Initiative
Vancouver Sun
05/14/2008
As B.C. prepares to enter into a regional system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reporters were invited to a briefing Tuesday on the pending release of draft regulations for the scheme.
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Stumping on Climate, McCain Faults Bush
New York Times
05/14/2008
Senator John McCain intensified his criticism of President Bush and the administration’s environmental polices on Tuesday, taking a walk in the cold, rain-drenched foothills of the Cascade Mountains and asserting that in the effort to stem climate change, “America can lead and not obstruct.”
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Views: The Post-Bush Climate
New York Times
05/14/2008
John McCain has been engaged in the fight against global warming for years, even at the expense of breaking with Republican orthodoxy and with President Bush on the issue. But it was still an important moment this week when Mr. McCain, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, decided to raise the profile of climate change in the 2008 campaign.
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McCain Again Steps Away from Bush
Washington Post
05/14/2008
For the second day in a row, McCain took pains to distance himself from President Bush on the question of climate change, saying "there's a longstanding, significant, deep disagreement between myself and the administration on this issue."
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B.C. Green Groups Praise Cap-and-Trade
Toronto Globe and Mail
05/14/2008
Two environmental groups based in Western Canada say the regional effort to develop a system to slap a price on harmful industrial greenhouse-gas emissions could ultimately form the basis for North America's best response to climate change.
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Views: Warming to McCain
Wall Street Journal
05/14/2008
Mr. McCain's virtues are many, but he's a politician. Yet, happily, the spheres are moving and whatever energy boondoggles are coming, they are likely to be less costly than the boondoggles that might have been enacted even a year or two ago when Al Gore was riding high. For this, we will be able to thank the climate gods and no one else.
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McCain Touts His Environmental Program
KPLU
05/14/2008
Republican presidential candidate John McCain is showcasing his green agenda on the campaign trail this week. The senator visited the Seattle area to speak at a roundtable of elected officials, business leaders and conservationists.
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