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Website:	MCain - Palin: The Lexington Project	View Website
Founded:	9/6/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 121 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Energy & Environment

Article:	Election 2008: Sarah Palin on Energy and the Environment	View Article
Published:	9/1/2008 by About.com	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 109 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & Environment

Article Details: In an August 2008 newspaper interview, Palin said "alternative energy solutions are far from imminent and would require more than 10 years to develop." Ironically, developing the new domestic oil resources Palin advocates would take at least that long or longer, and would lead to more greenhouse-gas emissions and global warming from a finite fuel source instead of the clean, renewable energy that alternative solutions would provide.

Article:	Palin in comparison	View Article
Published:	8/23/2008 by Gristmill	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 123 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Government and Elections & Environment

Article Details: John McCain's surprise pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate has a lot of environmentalists in the state worried about the influence she might have on the presidential candidate's environmental policy. McCain has worked hard to portray himself as a green Republican, but Palin has developed an anti-environmental reputation during her 20 months as governor, according to many in the state.

Website:	Energy Information Agency	View Website
Founded:	8/19/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 139 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Website:	Stop Oil Speculators	View Website
Founded:	8/19/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 139 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Website:	Wikipedia - Price Anderson Act	View Website
Founded:	8/18/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 140 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Website:	Public Citizen	View Website
Founded:	8/18/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 140 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Article:	Will Offshore Drilling Help at the Pump? Government Studies Say No	View Article
Published:	8/5/2008 by CBS News	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	King Julian 152 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Business and Economy & Environment

Article Details: Despite the Department of Energy stating that offshore drilling would not have much impact on oil production for over 20 years, John McCain continued to make the argument tonight that the U.S. could see an impact on gas prices in a matter of months once domestic oil drilling begins.

Article:	Candidates Clash On Impact Of Offshore Drilling	View Article
Published:	7/16/2008 by NPR	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 139 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Article Details: John McCain says, "I think that this — and perhaps providing additional incentives to permit exploration off their coasts — would be very helpful in the short term for resolving our energy crisis." Barack Obama says, "It would have long-term consequences for our coastlines, but no short-term benefits, since it would take at least 10 years to get any oil," adding that, "offshore drilling would not lower gas prices today."

Article:	Schwarzenegger criticizes McCain's offshore drilling proposal	View Article
Published:	6/26/2008 by L.A. Times	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 139 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Article Details: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made a veiled swipe at Republican presidential hopeful John McCain on Thursday when he said at a climate conference here that anyone suggesting offshore oil drilling could bring down gas prices was "blowing smoke." The remark was also a dig at his host, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who riled environmentalists, tourism promoters and the state's political leaders on both sides of the aisle last week when he voiced support for McCain's proposal to lift bans on exploring fo

Article:	'Enron loophole' enables oil speculation	View Article
Published:	6/24/2008 by Washington Times	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 140 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Article Details: The speculative trading that has helped drive oil prices over $135 a barrel continues largely unchecked despite much talk and repeated attempts by Congress and regulators to rein it in this year. "At $135 per barrel, the U.S. will spend $1 trillion per year on oil, which is equal to 15 percent of the $6.8 trillion in take-home pay of everyone who pays taxes."

Article:	Dearth of Ships Delays Drilling of Offshore Oil	View Article
Published:	6/19/2008 by New York Times	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 139 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Education

Article Details: As President Bush calls for repealing a ban on drilling off most of the coast of the United States, a shortage of ships used for deep-water offshore drilling promises to impede any rapid turnaround in oil exploration and supply. This global shortage of drill-ships has created a critical bottleneck, frustrating energy company executives and constraining their ability to exploit known reserves or find new ones.

Article:	Bush Will Seek to End Offshore Oil Drilling Ban	View Article
Published:	6/18/2008 by New York Times	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 139 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Article Details: President Bush, reversing a longstanding position, will call on Congress to end a federal ban on offshore oil drilling. Mr. Bush now wants to work with states to determine where drilling should occur, but states would have a veto on oil exploration within 100 miles of their coastlines. Mr. Bush now wants to work with states to determine where drilling should occur. The Congressional moratorium was first enacted in 1982, and has been renewed every year since.

Article:	Oil Trading's Powerful "Dark Markets"	View Article
Published:	6/17/2008 by CBS News	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 139 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Article Details: As gas prices skyrocket, attention has turned to public "pits," where brokers trade "oil futures" - the right to buy or sell crude oil at a specific price, on a future date. But far away from the hue and cry, hundreds of millions of barrels of oil futures contracts are traded electronically every day. More than 30 percent, experts say, exchanged in so-called "dark markets," the exact size and scope unknown to U.S. regulators.

Article:	Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)	View Article
Published:	6/16/2008 by SourceWatch	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 140 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Article Details: The Nuclear Energy Institute claims to be "the policy organization of the nuclear energy and technologies industry and participates in both the national and global policy-making process." An opposing critic labels NEI as "the propaganda wing and trade group for the American nuclear industry [which] spends millions of dollars annually to engineer public opinion."

Article:	Regulators Probe Oil Speculation	View Article
Published:	5/30/2008 by Washington Times	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 139 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Article Details: Federal regulators disclosed that they are six months into a wide-ranging investigation to determine whether illegal manipulation of the oil market by Wall Street speculators, hedge funds and investment banks is driving up fuel prices. Concern has been growing that a speculative frenzy since the end of last year has helped to drive oil and food prices to unprecedented and unwarranted levels, creating hardships for consumers worldwide.

Article:	McCain, Obama on Environment, Energy	View Article
Published:	5/21/2008 by Reuters	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Shayon 165 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Article Details: With crude oil prices surging to record highs above $130 a barrel, energy and environmental issues like global warming have moved to the forefront of the U.S. presidential campaign. Here is what Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, who is close to capturing his party's nomination, are saying about energy and the environment:

Article:	McCain Defends 'Enron Loophole'	View Article
Published:	5/19/2008 by Baltimore Chronicle	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 139 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Article Details: Sen. John McCain says he opposes the $307 billion farm bill because it would dole out wasteful subsidies, but his chief economic adviser Phil Gramm also wants to stop its proposed regulation of energy futures trading, a market that was famously abused when Enron manipulated California’s electricity prices in 2001. An aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, acknowledged that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee also opposes the farm bill because Gramm advised McCain that he should r

Article:	Nuclear Pork: Enough is enough	View Article
Published:	5/10/2008 by Gristmill - Joseph Romm	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 140 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Article Details: After more than $70 billion dollars in direct subsidies, billions more in insurance subsidies, plus another $13 billion available through the energy policy act of 2005, Sen. McCain and others still feel that climate legislation must not merely create a price for carbon dioxide that would advantage all carbon-free sources of energy, but that we must also throw billions more dollars of pork at the industry. At some point, infatuation has turned to infatuation.

Article:	What Nuclear Renaissance?	View Article
Published:	4/24/2008 by The Nation	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 140 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Article Details: In an effort to jump-start a "nuclear renaissance," the Bush Administration has pushed one package of subsidies after another. But no new atomic power stations have been fully licensed or have broken ground. And two newly proposed projects have just been shelved. The fundamental fact is that nuclear power is too expensive and risky to attract the necessary commercial investors.

Article:	The "hoarding" and "speculation" in commodities	View Article
Published:	4/22/2008 by Unenumerated (Forbes)	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 139 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Article Details: Commodity prices now reflect more the value of commodities as stores of value and hedges or media of exchange, i.e. their values as money substitutes or hedges, than they reflect demand for their industrial consumption. Demand for the oft-dreaded but ill-understood "hoarding" and "speculation", that is storing extra commodities (often off-the-books) and the purchase of extra commodity futures and other commodity derivatives to hedge transactions based on government currencies, will remain strong

Article:	Renewable Energy R&D Funding History	View Article
Published:	4/9/2008 by Congressional Research Service	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 140 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Article Details: This CRS Report for Congress provides a cumulative history of Department of Energy (DOE) funding for renewable energy compared with funding for the other energy technologies — nuclear energy, fossil energy, and energy efficiency.

Article:	McCain talks environment in state stop	View Article
Published:	3/13/2008 by SeattlePi	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Shayon 165 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Environment

Article Details: 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.

Article:	Loan Guarantee Provisions in Energy Bills: Nuclear Power Taxpayer Risk and Liability?	View Article
Published:	10/30/2007	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 140 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Environment & Energy Independence

Article Details: Loan guarantees are used by the federal government to promote key areas of industry and encourage commercial development. GAO says: “Federal loan guarantee programs help borrowers get credit from private sector lenders—the federal government guarantees to pay lenders if the borrowers default on loans, which makes extending credit more attractive to lenders.”