ON THE TRAIL

May 10, 2008

Arizona Sen. John McCain touted his environmental record in a morning campaign stop in New Jersey yesterday. He announced support for a Senate measure to limit greenhouse gases. The America's Climate Security Act would reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions to two-thirds of 2005 levels by midcentury. Some pundits yesterday expressed the view McCain would annoy pro-business conservatives by supporting the measure.

Campaigning in Oregon, Barack Obama put his focus on McCain. "Senator McCain is running for president to double-down on George Bush's failed policies," he told several dozen employees of Beaverton's Vernier Software & Technology, which makes classroom products for science teachers. McCain, campaigning in Jersey City, returned the compliment, ignoring Clinton to focus on the Illinois senator and his recent assertion that Hamas favored Obama.