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Sectoral Intercourse

August 24, 2008

Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
climate change negotiations, globalwarming pollution

A little ray of sunlight peeked through the clouds on Wednesday, the opening day of the latest round of the climate treaty talks, taking place in Accra, Ghana.  The meeting began with a workshop on “sectoral approaches.”  Country presentations focused...

Mark of the Beast

August 20, 2008

Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
cleanairact, globalwarming, globalwarming pollution, globalwarminglaw

Nine members of Congress, led by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, have introduced a malicious little bill – curiously numbered H.R. 6666 – to block the regulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, and any other...

Look, Hu's Talking

July 8, 2008

Posted by David Doniger in Greening China , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
china, climate change negotiations, g8, globalwarming

I just returned from a week of talks with Chinese experts and officials in Beijing on global warming.  They are intensely interested in how American climate policy may change under a new president next year.  And they are ready to...

See No Email

June 25, 2008

Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
bushadministration, cleanairact, EPA, newyorktimes, supremecourt

So today we learned an odd new twist in the White House's refusal to let EPA regulate global warming pollution under the Clean Air Act.  Felicity Barringer reports in the New York Times today that last December officials of the...

Heavens Open on U.S. Capitol While Senate Stalls on Global Warming Bill

June 4, 2008

Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
climatesecurityact, globalwarming pollution, liebermanwarner, Senate

It’s Wednesday afternoon at 3:15, and looking out my window in downtown Washington, I am watching a huge thunderstorm buffet the city.  The sky grew dark.  Lightning, thunder, wind, and rain.  Tornado warnings -- very rare here in the nation's...

The Phony “Train Wreck”

April 18, 2008

Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
bushadministration, cleanairact, EPA, globalwarming pollution, globalwarminglaw, liebermanwarner, supremecourt

President Bush’s advisors claimed this week that using the Clean Air Act and other existing laws to fight global warming will cause “a regulatory train wreck.”  The only “train wreck” we’ll have is if the president’s own engineers and switchmen...

A Man for All Seasons

February 29, 2008

Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
ab1493, cleanairact, cleancars, epa waiver, globalwarming, globalwarminglaw

So last night I caught the classic film, “A Man for All Seasons,” about Sir Thomas More’s principled refusal to take orders from King Henry VIII.  There was a character in there who reminded me of EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson...

The Truth Is Chilling

January 23, 2008

Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
california, cleancars, epa waiver, globalwarming pollution, globalwarminglaw

Want a fun read?  Check out EPA’s January 18 letter to Senator Barbara Boxer, Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, explaining why Administrator Stephen Johnson doesn’t want the public to see documents showing why his professional and legal...

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

Tags:
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...

The Great Galvanizer

January 2, 2008

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

Tags:
ab1493, california, cleanairact, cleancars, EPA Waiver, globalwarming pollution, globalwarminglaw

Seven years ago, incoming President Bush brashly withdrew America from the international effort to stop global warming. Then national security advisor Condaleeza Rice told European diplomats that the Kyoto treaty was dead. That only galvanized the rest of the world...

The Start of the World’s Last Chance

December 15, 2007

Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
bali, CAFE, climate change negotiations, climatesecurityact, energybill, liebermanwarner, UNFCCC

UPDATE:  I participated in a round-table discussion of the Bali talks on the NewsHour on PBS on Dec. 17th -- please see the video and transcript. Late Saturday in Bali, after overcoming last-minute U.S. objections, more than 180 countries agreed to...

America’s New Direction

December 10, 2007

Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
bali, climatenegotiations

As an American citizen attending climate treaty talks on behalf of NRDC, for too many years I’ve had to endure watching my country’s government play the role of “Dr. No.” Just wait, I’d tell people from other countries, things are...

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...

Mad (and Hot) as Hell

November 7, 2007

Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
cleancars, EPA Waiver, globalwarming

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is not going to take it any more.  He and Attorney-General Jerry Brown are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today, because the federal government is standing in the way of state efforts – led by California...

Letting 'The Moment' Pass

September 28, 2007

Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
bushadministration, carboncaps, globalwarming pollution, IPCC, Montreal_Protocol

Speaking at a meeting of the world’s biggest global warming polluters in Washington today, President Bush said “the moment is now” for action.  But he let the moment go by without making any change in his dogged refusal to put real...

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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