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Facts Are Stupid Things

January 8, 2008

Posted by David Doniger in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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california, CARB, cleancars, EPA, globalwarming pollution, globalwarminglaw

John Adams, our second president, famously said: "Facts are stubborn things." In a 1988 slip of the tongue, Ronald Reagan said: "Facts are stupid things." For the Bush administration, the slip of the tongue has been going on for seven...

Beep-Beep M’ Beep-Beep, Yeah!

December 1, 2007

Posted by David Doniger in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
autoindustry, cleanairact, cleancars, fueleconomy, fuelefficiency, globalwarming pollution

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, together with Senators Diane Feinstein and Daniel Inouye and other leading Senators, have pulled off agreement on the first significant increase in fuel economy standards since 1985.Under the new fuel economy legislation hammered out on Friday, new...

David Doniger
David Doniger
Policy Director, NRDC Climate Center
Washington, D.C.
I'm the policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's (NRDC) Climate Center, and our...
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