Posted by Dave Hawkins in Solving Global Warming
This has been a busy week for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Hearings on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733) began on Tuesday and by the end of the day today, EPW will have...
Posted by Dave Hawkins in Solving Global Warming
Climate Bill Cost Claims: "Correspondent" Falls Down on Job It seems that more and more opponents to action on clean energy and climate protection are succumbing to a virus more virulent than swine flu: the inability to tell the truth...
Posted by Dave Hawkins in Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Well, my comments in a New York Times piece about natural gas have certainly provoked a lot of reaction, including some who thought I was arguing that coal is a better fuel from a climate standpoint than natural gas. Not...
Posted by Dave Hawkins in Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
NRDC's David Hawkins is among the experts -- along with Energy Secretary Steven Chu, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Agriculture Department Secretary Tom Vilsack -- scheduled to testify on Tuesday, July 7 before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee....
Posted by Dave Hawkins in Solving Global Warming
In the Odyssey, Odysseus had to be tied to the mast to resist the call of the Sirens, who tried to lure his ship onto the rocks. These days the siren song of a carbon tax fills the ear of...
Posted by Dave Hawkins in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Less than a week into office President Obama is acting to show the country and the world that the U.S. is back as a leader in the fight to protect the climate by taking on global warming pollution. The Washington Post...
Posted by Dave Hawkins in Solving Global Warming
Joe Romm posted a pretty scathing comment about the USCAP Blueprint on his Climate Progress blog a couple of days ago. Here is my response. Joe, You are and will remain a respected friend. As an author and blogger,...
Posted by Dave Hawkins in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Two passionate but confused individuals, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger lead the current issue of The New Republic with "A Manifesto for a New Environmentalism". They lambaste "environmentalists" for being fixated with a "pollution paradigm" that operates by "limiting human...
