McCain is the only GOP presidential candidate who will give environmental issues a fair hearing. Nothing good for the environment can come from defaulting to partisan polarization.

See more about McCain's environmental record at http://www.rep.org/McCain_enviro_record.html

See more about the Sierra Club's over-the-top attacks on his record at http://www.rep.org/opinions/press_releases/release08-2-28 ...

To be fair, one might also raise the fact that Senator Obama voted against an important amendment sponsored by Senators McCain and Feingold that would have allowed for independent review and prioritization of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers water projects.

Senator McCain has a strong environmental record. You can find the details at http://www.rep.org/McCain_enviro_record.html

Our goal should be to make protecting the environment "a cause beyond party and beyond factions." With Senator McCain being the GOP nominee, the environment has a chance to win regardless of who wins the White House. All of us should celebrate the position we find ourselves in. Unfortunately these attacks perpetuate the partisan atmosphere that has so often hurt our cause.

David Jenkins

In reality, environmentalists should be celebrating since this is the first time in my memory that both parties will actually field candidates that at least have positions on paper sympathetic to the environmentalist concerns.

In reality I suspect there is a hard core segment of the environmental movement that is more leftist than green.

http://capwiz.com/lcv_stage/bio/keyvotes/?id=192&cong ...

Tell the local fishermen in the sounds and bays where the destruction was the worst, as they simply do not have any fish anymore.  The fish that are left have lesions and are stunted and are not edible.  They have been waiting for decades for resolution on a settlement but Exxon keeps dragging it through the court system.  This is not about inordinate tort claims ... this is about fairness to the families and businesses that were shut down by a drunk captain and a rookie mate who hit a rock with total disregard for proper navigation and seamanship.

Every presidential candidate has a vote they'd love to take back.  I wonder if John McCain would take back his vote against OPA 90.  If not, screw him.

Onward through the fog

Ideally a CFO would see that it was worth paying for the double hulls now and avoiding costly rulings in the future.  This philosophy has the added benefit of minimizing government and keeping tax dollars in the pockets of hardworking Americans (many of whom care about green issues).

Further, this is not just a "silly American law" but is part of an international set of regulations for all tanker ships, where single-hull tankers are to be converted or scrapped by 2026 (MARPOL 73/78). It should be acknowledged that many lobbyists from the tanker operators participated in the rulemaking and supported it.

Onward through the fog

Then why is the exxonmob still allowed to ship that oil?  Make them hire responsible shipping companies.  The exxonmob personnel should be arrested when they arrive in Alaska and held until the fine is payed too.

The exxonmob is pure evil, pure fundamentalist krazy, korpoRAT, kristian evil.  McCain ought to be stuck with oil spill footage ads against him in the campaign.  

There is good news on oil spills though.  An inventor right here in northern Wisconsin discovered that powdered recycled glass separates oil from water, it clumps up soaking into the glass powder.  With heat the powder can be filtered from the oil.

Since we have an oily administration now, and had an oily congress up until recently, it's understandable that exxonmob has not been forced to go to double hulls or pay it's Valdeze fine.  Remember this, Condi had an exxonmob tanker named after her, first time that ever happened!

Now will these steps be taken by the Barack administration?  Will the powdered glass cleanup process be mandated for emergency ships, with tons of the stuff available wherever spill danger exists, like the Valdeze area?  Making this guy rich off the patent and funding further invention?

Doubtfull.  But that is what should happen.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

My impression was that Exxon was getting out of the shipping business buy using contract carriers these days, but still runs a few monthly shipments on the West Coast.  

Onward through the fog

Given the average score of the typical Republican (which is less than 10), and the fact that several of the legislative pieces that he did support were large in scope and almost unanimously opposed by all other Republicans, the LCV considered his voting record to be fair.

  McCain was at one time perhaps and independent thinker.  But, really, he has pandered so far to the extreme right to win the nomination, that even if he won the election, he would be their prisoner.

  The only reason the LCV or anyone speaks highly of him is so that they can preserve the fiction of "bi-partisanship".  But it is alas a fiction.  And not one worth preserving.

  With any luck, Obama will wipe the Rethugs off the face of America, and once there is only one center right party standing, maybe we can make the next one "I'll try the lean to the left" flavor (please!).

patrick in Beijing

These dummies are stupid enough to think that bacteria and viruses only attack poor people and therefore deny them health care. Morons, drug-resistant TB breeds in people with poor access to medical care and then jumps to the general populace just like every other drug-resistant infection.

They also don't believe in evolution.

They believe in profits, guns and economic control by rich white old guys.

If nobodies noticed John Mcain has Dubya's wholehearted endorsement.

Clue!! People!!

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