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Fossil Fuels 101?

September 9, 2009

Posted by Dave Hawkins in Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
cleanenergy, co2emissions, coal, energyandclimate2009, naturalgas, powerplants

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...

LIVE COVERAGE of July 7th Senate testimony on clean energy and climate legislation

July 7, 2009

Posted by Dave Hawkins in Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
ACES, cleanenergy, climatebills, climatechange, congress, energyandclimate2009, globalwarming

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....

"A Manifesto for a New Environmentalism" Misses the Mark

September 27, 2007

Posted by Dave Hawkins in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
cleanenergy, cleantech, globalwarming pollution, marketforces, nordhaus, shellenberger, USCAP

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...

Dave Hawkins
Dave Hawkins
Director, Climate Programs
Washington, D.C.
I’ve only had a couple of jobs in my lifetime. First, I was a...
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