Kate Sheppard

So it’s increasingly common knowledge that coal is the enemy of the human race, a phrase popularized by David Roberts over on Grist. But in the absence of federal regulations constraining carbon emissions, coal plants are still churning out carbon dioxide and warming the planet. While the federal government drags its feet, major national environmental […]

John McCain made a speech to the annual meeting of the Associated Press this morning in Washington, D.C., in which he attempted to balance affection and admonition for reporters. I found the whole thing pretty humorous, especially since he’s a guy known for being generally chummy with the media, but who has also turned his […]

Political Wire Political Wire digs up a particularly salient quote from Bill Clinton‘s My Life in which he makes essentially the same observation as Barack Obama, minus the word “bitter”: If [Republicans] could cut funding for Medicare, Medicaid, education, and the environment, middle-class Americans would see fewer benefits from their tax dollars, feel more resentful […]

Unlike Unlike Jason Zengerle, I found nothing in this Times piece to suggest that Elizabeth Edwards favors Hillary Clinton. I can, however, see why she would support Clinton’s pledge to sally forth in the primary, regardless of whether or not she prefers her as a candidate. First, after observing and working with her husband as […]

Jon Chait points to a recent Gallup poll which finds that Obama‘s lead over Clinton among white, college-educated Democrats has risen five points in the past three weeks, and among those with post-graduate degrees it has jumped from an 8-point lead to a 29-point lead. Meanwhile, he’s still down 30 percent among white voters with […]

It looked like Maryland was on track to pass solid climate legislation, but it was killed this week in the House Economic Matters Committee. The bill would have called for a 25 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and 90 percent by 2050, but it was squashed after lobbying by state industries as […]

To follow up on my To follow up on my Condi post yesterday, Matt makes a great point that I truly meant to include in the original. My fascination with Condi is merely based on a great curiosity about her as a person – but of course, one can’t mention those without taking into her […]

Hillary Clinton just sent out an email praising Gordon Brown for pledging to not attend the Olympic opening ceremonies in Beijing. She called upon Bush to follow suit, and wants the other presidential candidates to join her: I wanted to commend Prime Minister Gordon Brown for agreeing not to go to the opening ceremonies of […]

Following up on Following up on her remarks at yesterday’s hearing, Hillary Clinton held a town hall meeting Aliquippa, Pa. today where she outlined her plans for the military including ways to reduce stress on individual members of the armed forces and end the stop-loss policy. “Among combat troops sent to Iraq for the third […]

Over on the fantastic youth climate activism blog It’s Getting Hot in Here, Natasha Chart reacts to this piece calling for more youth activism on climate change, which includes lines like “young people are not cynical or jaded like many adults. They believe they can truly make a difference – and they can.” Chart is […]