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• More Captive-Industry Populism Out West

  A while back I wrote about a phenomenon known as captive-industry populism. Here's the latest example of it: MISSOULA - Gov. Brian Schweitzer today announced that the state will be requiring Stimson Lumber Company to clean up contamination at its...

  Posted by David Sirota on August 5, 2008 4:06 PM
  Tags: environment

• CEI Declares New War on Al Gore

  The Competitive Enterprise Institute is launching television attack ads on Al Gore....

  Posted by David Sirota on March 10, 2008 12:33 PM
  Tags: environment

• Return the "Me" Culture to An Upright Position

  Aboard a plane recently, the inevitable happened: The person in front of me put their seat back, encroaching in my space. That's when I took out my laptop and wrote my new nationally syndicated newspaper column about how that kind...

  Posted by David Sirota on December 10, 2007 6:47 AM
  Tags: environment global warming

• "Here's A Novel Concept for Congress: Do something. Anything. Move."

  The New York Times reports that my old boss, Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D) of Montana, will be appearing in a nationwide ad with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) and Utah Gov. John Huntsman (R) demanding Congress begin taking concrete steps...

  Posted by David Sirota on November 14, 2007 8:20 PM
  Tags: environment global warming

• How the Peru FTA Will Destroy the Environment

  Public Citizen has the ugly details on how this deal is designed to help energy companies destroy the Amazon....

  Posted by David Sirota on October 17, 2007 6:19 PM
  Tags: environment free trade

• Gore

  Why does the mainstream media continue to pick on Al Gore, one of history's greatest environmental leaders? It's really kind of pathetic. Look, I get that Gore is not perfect. He helped pass NAFTA, for instance (though he also heartily...

  Posted by David Sirota on October 13, 2007 12:23 PM
  Tags: environment politics

• Register-Guard: GOP Sen. Smith "Willing to Bend and Selectively Omit the Facts"

  Oregon Republican Sen. Gordon Smith (R) has a problem, and he's making it worse. His problem is that just 38 percent of Oregonians tell pollsters they are ready to support him for reelection - an incredibly anemic number for an...

  Posted by David Sirota on August 21, 2007 3:37 PM
  Tags: environment Great American West Land Politics

• Making Industry Clean Up After Itself

  You know how corporate lobbyists and Republican lawmakers always tell us that if we force Big Business to do anything it will mean job cuts, wage cuts and general economic disaster? Well, check out this story from the Billings Gazette...

  Posted by David Sirota on August 20, 2007 5:45 PM
  Tags: environment Great American West

• Land Politics Report 8/6/07: The Coalition Between Unions, Sportsmen and Conservationists

  With so much going on in Land Politics, I've decided to start filing semi-regular reports on the issue like I do on the trade issue, since (like the trade issue) few - if any - cover it in a comprehensive...

  Posted by David Sirota on August 6, 2007 8:39 AM
  Tags: energy environment Land Politics New conservation coalition

• More Proof the West Is A Heckuva Lot More Colorful Than Red vs. Blue

  From the Rocky Mountain West's Department of Shifting Politics comes dispatches out of Boise and Ft. Collins that show, once again, how fractured the old Republican coalition has become, and how many opportunities there are for Democrats - if they...

  Posted by David Sirota on July 16, 2007 7:04 AM
  Tags: environment Great American West Land Politics war on the middle class

• Dems Adapting to Shifting Energy & Land Politics

  Last week, I wrote a long post over at Working Assets exploring how Land Politics and Energy Politics are really changing out in the Rocky Mountain West. No longer is this region's politics an oil and gas monopoly. Other factors...

  Posted by David Sirota on July 13, 2007 6:16 AM
  Tags: energy environment Great American West

• Land Politics: Progressives' Big Opportunity in the West

  Tired and worn out from the difficult slog of a populist campaign in the red state of Montana, I penned three articles (in the Washington Monthly, the American Prospect and In These Times) in December of 2004 showing how the...

  Posted by David Sirota on July 6, 2007 11:32 AM
  Tags: environment Great American West

• SF CHRON: Dems Drafting Bill to Steamroll State Global Warming Laws

  You have to read this to believe it. In other state-related news, the National Conference of State Legislatures just sent out this email bragging that: "A record-breaking 3,400 people have already registered for this year's Legislative Summit in Boston, August...

  Posted by David Sirota on June 6, 2007 9:13 AM
  Tags: California global warming culture of corruption energy environment

• ExxonMobil's CEO Goes Rumsfeldian On Global Warming

  I attended the ExxonMobil shareholder meeting this week down in Dallas as part of some reporting I am doing for my book. When the issue of global warming and climate change came up at the meeting, ExxonMobil CEO Rex...

  Posted by David Sirota on May 31, 2007 8:51 PM
  Tags: environment

• THE SECRET DEAL - DAY 5: Health & Enviro Advocates Slam the Deal

  This is another in a series of ongoing posts following the announcement of a secret free trade deal on May 10, 2007 between a handful of senior Democrats and the Bush administration. It is now five days since a handful...

  Posted by David Sirota on May 15, 2007 4:50 AM
  Tags: environment free trade health care

• New Report: Gov't Environmental Policy Negatively Affecting Minorities

  The Washington Post business page has this report today: "A recent report by the United Church of Christ in Cleveland suggests that decisions made by federal, state and local governments, as well as by companies, have penalized minority groups. The...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 24, 2007 11:47 AM
  Tags: environment

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