Senator John Edwards may prove the strongest Presidential ‘08 environmental voice for the Democratic Party. Dennis Kucinich, of course, is outstanding in his environmental voice, but as a Presidential ‘08 candidate he is weak in where he stands in the polls. This game is not about all or nothing. Its about excellence in getting started, getting most of what is right for this planet.
“Senator Edwards calls for a ban on new coal power plants unless they’re compatible with carbon-capture and -storage technology. Opposes government investment in coal-to-liquid technologies.”Opposes nuclear power.
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See at a glance where the candidates stand.
John Edwards does have a fatal weakness though. Its surprising for someone who says we have a big fight with Big Money and he is superbly the only Presidential ‘08 candidate who has not taken money from lobbies, PAC and bundlers for his campaign funding. His position on biofuels is BIG.
Senator Clinton (see “How Hillary missed second place in Iowa due to voting “NO” in Ethanol legislation“) comes out clean on limiting biofuels (to find better alternatives) and oil industry incentives.
Senator Edwards is BIG on biofuels, as is Richardson and Obama. Why not biofuels? Got time for a two-week crash course?
ok how about just a thin slice of the issues instead. Your senator’s Lobby pressure (as in Clinton and Obama) (see Who will step outside the greenwash in 2008)
- erosive quality of intensive corn production
- soybeans are the lowest-yield per acre of any major biodiesel crop
- One company, ADM, dominates biofuel industry through heavy legislated subsidy of corn and soybeans in the U.S. and ranks as the No. 1 biodiesel producer in Europe. They are the largest U.S. buyer of soybeans. (see other Big Money players at the Grist “How cash and corporate pressure pushed Ethanol to the fore“).
Senators Obama and Clinton both have BIG clean coal problems due to their State’s intense coal lobby pressure.
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Who will step outside the greenwash in 2008
“The Gripe With Obama”, Washington Post, January 10, 2007
Letter to New York State Department of Environmental Conservation from Senator Hillary Clinton on behalf of International Paper’s tire burning project. It was an effort to save jobs and a belief that the company would do the right thing. The people in Vermont suffered greatly and the extension of this suffering is New Hampshire as well as New York because International Paper did not honor the environmental protection standards. They wanted an expected $4 million for zero capital outlay and it did not matter how they got it. This letter will continue to haunt Hillary Clinton and it should; every Big Money request deserves research and followup.
Huffington Post ran Glenn Hurowitz’s post, “Hillary Clinton’s toxic New Hampshire Cloud,” the eve of the New Hampshire primary. Its message was the action caused damage to New Hampshire children and watch out for the future environmental actions of this Presidential ‘08 candidate. In researching to date I did not find the New Hampshire fact. I also found no support for thinking New York State could care about their or any other state’s citizen health. It is the hard and great work of Vermont Senators Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders that shut down the Ticonderoga, New York operation after its first week damaged thousands of the population’s health. The mill was shut down for three months and International Paper forced to invest in “just” adequate equipment that would meet the very lax New York environmental standards.
Certainly Senator Clinton alone did not have the power to get that dismal Greed effort through, think more senior New York Senators and Governors and about New York’s horrible environmental record that has only served the BIG companies. Ah, but none of them are running for President. Oh to be a Senator of New York, hard work indeed!
