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UPDATE (9-05-08): For a far more accurate description of McCain's current environmental views, click HERE.
UPDATE (8-29-08): This post was written many many months ago, before John McCain more clearly delineated his environmental policies. Thousands of people stumble on this post all the time, looking for insight into McCain's view on the environment. For quite a while, I have felt I was doing readers a disservice by leaving this post out there even though it doesn't reflect the current beliefs of John McCain. For that reason, I am now including links to several recent posts that will provide a more complete portrait of what John McCain will do, if elected President, with the environment...
Comparing Obama vs. McCain on the Environment...
Contrasting Obama vs. McCain on the Environment...
And you can see more on the records of both Obama and Hillary Clinton HERE
- To see a short description of McCain's VP, Gov. Sarah Palin's environmental views, click HERE.
- To read about McCain's interest in drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, click HERE.
- To read about McCain's misleading campaign ad on wind energy, click HERE.
- To read about the sudden campaign cash influx McCain received from oil executives after his flip-flop on offshore oil drilling, click HERE.
- To read about McCain's 0% rating by the League of Conservation Voters, click HERE.
Comparing Obama vs. McCain on the Environment...
- In 2004, both Obama and McCain were endorsed by the League of Conservation Voters (a pro-environment organization) over their Senate race opponents.
- Both Obama and McCain support a cap-and-trade system to phase out greenhouse gas emissions by factories.***
- McCain and Obama oppose oil drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge.
- Both candidates support expansion of liquefied coal and ethanol energy technology.
- Obama and McCain have supported expansion of nuclear power plants. Obama switched his position slightly between July 2007 and December 2007, explaining in December that until we can solve the storage and safety issues associated with nuclear power, we should not expand its use.
- Both agree that humans contribute to global climate change.
- McCain and Obama agree that the U.S. should have signed the Kyoto Treaty.
Contrasting Obama vs. McCain on the Environment...
- The League of Conservation Voters gave McCain's environmental record a score of 53% while Obama has scored in the high 90's.
- McCain opposed Dick Cheney's 2005 Energy Bill that included huge tax giveaways to oil companies with record revenues. Obama supported the bill.
- Obama supported a law that required 25% of U.S. energy come from renewable sources by 2025, McCain opposed a similar federal law.
- McCain opposed the 2007 Energy Bill written by Democrats which mandated improved vehicle fuel economy standards by 2020, Obama supported the bill.
- Obama did not join McCain and 44 other Republican and Democratic Senators in urging the Environmental Protection Agency to draft stricter Mercury restrictions.
And you can see more on the records of both Obama and Hillary Clinton HERE
8 comments:
THANK YOU for offering up these stats. I don't know if it's just me, as a relative newcomer to watching the political show, but I don't find the actual history of how candidates vote/act on various issues all that easy to find. The only thing I would like to see added, somewhere, is a commentary of rationale of why someone votes the way they do - is there a rider on a bill that dilutes or compromises it? So often there's a twist that makes a congressman appear to have a different agenda than they actually do.
Thanks again.
That's really misleading. McCain's "cap and trade" bill is totally different from Obama's. It isn't an auction, so it raises no revenue for the government, results in huge (billions of dollars) giveaways to the fossile fuel industry, and doesn't come anywhere near 80% emissions cuts by 2050. Obama's is an auction, will raise government revenue to actually implement a comprehensive climate plan, and will cut emissions by 80%.
You seriously need to revise the list, you are glossing over dramatic differences on the single most important environmental legislation of our generation.
Obama and McCain's greenhouse gas reduction proposals differ starkly, both in terms of the percentage reduction sought and in terms of the baseline year:
Barak Obama – 80 percent reduction (1990 baseline) by 2050 (http://www.grist.org/candidate_chart_08.html)
John McCain – 30 reduction (2004 baseline) by 2050 (http://www.grist.org/candidate_chart_08.html)
I wonder how many energy saving devices both candidates have in their personal life. McCain who is from the land from the sun, should be fully solar, we are about 3/4 solar. He is older and established and in an area that could save tremendous amounts of energy. Obama, on the other hand is young, lives in the Chicago area, has just paid off his college loans, so I could forgive him. Does anyone know?
What is this Tax and Trade thingy going to cost a family that is trying to make ends meet?
I believe you are incorrect on McCain's support of drilling in Alaska. He is pro-drilling.
Well, Obama is doing really well for himself for just having paid off his college loans. His house cost more than a millions dollars.
Obama's house may have cost more than a million or millions of dollars as the post claims (unclear which from the wording), but Macain can't even remember how many housese he and his wife GOT.
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