Saxby Chambliss ( R ) (incumbent)
Campaign Literature
Allen Buckley ( L )
Campaign Literature
Primary objectives and long-term vision (see item #6)
OnTheIssues.org
Jim Martin ( D )
Campaign Literature
Safeguarding our Environment with a Green Economy
OnTheIssues.org
Note: although Senator Biden has been nominated as vice-presidential running mate to Senator Obama, he is still officially defending his U.S. Senate seat in Delaware. Should the senator be elected to (and accept!) the post of vice-president, the Democratic Party will appoint a person to hold his U.S. Senate seat until the next election cycle.
Joe Biden ( D ) (incumbent)
Campaign Literature
Energy & climate security, renewable fuels
OnTheIssues.org
Christine O’Donnell ( R )
Campaign Literature
Energy (scroll down)
OnTheIssues.org
Note: due to the impending retirement of Senator Wayne Allard ( R ),
neither of the candidates in the Colorado election race is the incumbent.
Bob Schaffer ( R )
Campaign Literature
Mark Udall ( D )
Campaign Literature
Energy security and a new economy
OnTheIssues.org
Jeff Sessions ( R ) (incumbent)
Campaign Literature
OnTheIssues.org
Vivian Davis Figures ( D )
Campaign Literature
Vivian Davis Figures on Energy Independence
OnTheIssues.org
This page shows all the Senate elections scheduled for 2008, with the name, status and party of each candidate. If you click on the state name in the list below, you’ll reach a page where we’ve collected much of the information regarding the candidates’ positions on energy and environmental aspects of energy. From there you can follow the links to their official statements (largely collected from campaign literature) and to 3rd-party reports on their positions and–where appropriate–their voting record.
Some of the things you’ll notice as you step through the links:
We want to keep the listings as up-to-date and relevant as we can, and you can help us to do that. If you come across additional relevant candidate information in local news outlets, campaign literature or elsewhere, why not send a link to us at Solar Nation? We can’t guarantee that we’ll publish it (we have to be non-partisan ourselves, and we won’t reproduce attack ads or articles in a similar vein), but we’ll publish whatever fairly presents the candidate’s positions.
It would also help if you could alert us to any outdated or broken links you find as you travel around the nation from this page.
Incumbent Jeff Sessions ( R )
Challenger Vivian Davis Figures ( D )
Incumbent Ted Stevens ( R )
Challengers Mark Begich ( D ), Dave Cuddy ( R ), Rick Sikma ( R )
Incumbent Mark Pryor ( D )
Challenger Rebekah Kennedy ( G )
Incumbent retiring
Challengers Bob Schaffer ( R ), Mark Udall ( D )
Incumbent Joe Biden ( D )
Challenger Christine O’Donnell ( R )
Incumbent Saxby Chambliss ( R )
Challengers Allen Buckley ( L ), Vernon Jones ( D ), Jim Martin ( D )
Incumbent retiring
Challengers Larry LaRocco ( D ), Jim Risch ( R )
Incumbent Richard Durbin ( D )
Challengers Steve Sauerberg ( R ), Larry Stafford ( L )
Incumbent Tom Harkin ( D )
Challenger Christopher Reed ( R )
Incumbent Pat Roberts ( R )
Challenger Jim Slattery ( D )
Incumbent Mitch McConnell ( R )
Challenger Bruce Lunsford ( D )
Incumbent Mary Landrieu ( D )
Challenger John Neely Kennedy ( R )
Incumbent Susan Collins ( R )
Challenger Tom Allen ( D )
Incumbent John Kerry ( D )
Challengers Jeff Beatty ( R ), Ed O’Reilly ( D )
Incumbent Carl Levin ( D )
Challenger Jack Hoogendyk ( R )
Incumbent Norm Coleman ( R )
Challengers Dean Barkley ( I ), Michael Cavlan ( G ), Al Franken (DFL)
Incumbents Thad Cochran ( R ), Roger Wicker ( R ) (appointed)
Challengers Erik Fleming ( D ), Ronnie Musgrove ( D )
Incumbent Max Baucus ( D )
Challenger Bob Kelleher ( R )
Incumbent retiring
Challengers Mike Johanns ( R ), Scott Kleeb ( D ), Steven Larrick (G)
Incumbent John Sununu ( R )
Challengers Ken Blevens ( L ), Jeanne Shaheen ( D )
Incumbent Frank Lautenberg ( D )
Challenger Dick Zimmer ( R )
Incumbent retiring
Challengers Steve Pearce ( R ), Tom Udall ( D )
Incumbent Elizabeth Dole ( R )
Challenger Kay Hagan ( D )
Incumbent James Inhofe ( R )
Challenger Andrew Rice ( D )
Incumbent Gordon Smith ( R )
Challengers Dave Brownlow ( C ), Jeff Merkley ( D )
Incumbent Jack Reed ( D )
Challengers Bob Tingle ( R ), Chris Young ( D )
Incumbent Lindsey Graham ( R )
Challengers Bob Conley ( D ), Mark McBride ( I )
Incumbent Tim Johnson ( D )
Challenger Joel Dykstra ( R )
Incumbent Lamar Alexander ( R )
Challengers Chris Lugo ( G ), Bob Tuke ( D )
Incumbent John Cornyn ( R )
Challengers Scott Jameson ( L ), Rick Noriega ( D )
Incumbent retiring
Challengers Jim Gilmore ( R ), Mark Warner ( D )
Incumbent Jay Rockefeller ( D )
Challenger Jay Wolfe ( D )
Incumbents Michael Enzi ( R ), John Barrasso ( R ) (appointed)
Challengers Chris Rothfuss (D), Nick Carter (D)
Norm Coleman ( R ) (incumbent)
Campaign Literature
OnTheIssues.org
Dean Barkley ( I )
Campaign Literature
On gas prices (scroll down)
OnTheIssues.org
Campaign Literature
As of September 8, we found no references to renewable energy on the candidate’s web site.
OnTheIssues.org
Al Franken ( DFL )
Campaign Literature
OnTheIssues.org
Ted Stevens ( R ) (incumbent)
Campaign Literature
OnTheIssues.org
Mark Begich ( D )
Campaign Literature
OnTheIssues.org
Dave Cuddy ( R )
Campaign Literature
OnTheIssues.org
Rick Sikma ( R )
Campaign Literature
OnTheIssues.org
Arewethereyet? Arewethereyet? Arewethereyet?
At peak oil, that is—that dread juncture at which the amount of oil being pumped worldwide finally stops increasing year-on-year and starts decreasing, as a result of mankind having already extracted half the planet’s supply of easily recoverable oil.
We might well be there; it’s been widely predicted for many years that we would reach peak oil at about this date, which allows us to speculate on the Saudi Government’s rebuff of President Bush’s recent plea for more oil production. At what business school did the Saudis learn that this was a good way to treat your best customer? Unless, of course, they had left themselves no choice, having reached the point at which they could no longer fudge the production figures from the supergiant Al Ghawar field; rather than admit to the world that the creaky old lady had finally succumbed to hardening of the arteries, the Saudis may have cloaked the truth by saying “won’t” rather than “can’t” to a request for increased output.
North Carolina is providing a positive lesson in how grass roots activism can affect energy policy and business opportunities at the state level. Clean energy businesses are being attracted to the Tar Heel State in part because of imaginative energy policy there, and numerous citizens’ groups have had a role in steering that policy in the right direction.
Some of the milestones in the state’s road to renewables include:
It’s this kind of legislative and regulatory climate that has helped make North Carolina attractive to clean energy businesses. Last month Sencera International Corporation of Charlotte announced it would construct a $36 million facility in Mecklenburg County for production of solar cells and assembly of PV modules. The State’s forward-looking energy policy, as well as a $62,000 One North Carolina Fund grant and other incentives, were instrumental in the company’s decision. (more…)
