David Doniger's Blog

About

Bio:: I'm the policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's (NRDC) Climate Center, and our chief global warming lawyer. I rejoined NRDC in March 2001 after serving for eight years in the Clinton administration, where I was director of climate change policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and, before that, counsel to the head of the EPA's clean air program. I also served for a year at the Council on Environmental Quality. This is my second stint at NRDC -- I first started here in 1978 and worked on clean air issues for the next 14 years, helping to win the Montreal Protocol to stop depletion of the ozone layer and the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990. Now we're working to pass legislation to cap and cut the pollution that causes global warming, and to reach a new treaty for global emission cuts.
Roots in:: Rye, NY
Why "environmentalism" matters:: Once I tried to explain to my daughter, who was then three years old, what I do when I go to work every day. I told her I was trying to stop pollution- the smoke that comes out of the back of buses, that kind of thing. We were outside one day when a big bus rolled by, and she pointed at it and said, 'There's a smoky bus, dad. Go get it.' It's hard to explain to a child- it's hard for me to understand- why it has to take so long. But we work hard and we get it done.

Look, Hu's Talking (July 8, 2008)
See No Email (June 25, 2008)
Heavens Open on U.S. Capitol While Senate Stalls on Global Warming Bill (June 4, 2008)
The Phony “Train Wreck” (April 18, 2008)
April Fools, Plus One (April 2, 2008)
A Man for All Seasons (February 29, 2008)
The Truth Is Chilling (January 23, 2008)
Facts Are Stupid Things (January 8, 2008)
The Great Galvanizer (January 2, 2008)
The Start of the World’s Last Chance (December 15, 2007)