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Lautenberg Raises Alarm on Ocean Acidity

November 4, 2009

Posted by Daniel Hinerfeld in Environmental Justice , Reviving the World's Oceans

How can our country adopt a carbon pollution policy if Republicans won't even come to the negotiating table?  All seven GOP senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee are now boycotting hearings on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill, taking denial...continued

Sigourney Weaver Brings Moment of Sense to Fox News

October 2, 2009

Posted by Daniel Hinerfeld in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
acidtest, cap-and-trade, globalwarming, oceanacidification, oceans, sigourneyweaver

Sigourney Weaver is just awesome. What else can you say after watching her performance this morning on Fox and Friends. The show introduced her segment as a promo for the new James Cameron film, AVATAR, but Sigourney politely switched topics...continued

Acid Test with Sigourney Weaver premieres tonight!

August 12, 2009

Posted by Daniel Hinerfeld in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
acidtest, carbon, elizabethkolbert, globalwarming, oceanacidification, oceans, planetgreen, sigourneyweaver

NRDC's film, Acid Test, with Sigourney Weaver, premieres tonight at 10:30pm ET/PT (channel finder) on Discovery Planet Green.  (Read USA Today's coverage of the film.)  Please tune in and spread the word. We decided to make Acid Test about a...continued

Ocean acidification: the scariest environmental problem you’ve never heard of

June 8, 2009

Posted by Daniel Hinerfeld in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
carbon, discoverychannel, globalwarming, healthyoceans, nrdcfilms, oceanacification, planetgreen, sigourneyweaver, simplesteps

I've had the privilege over the last several months to write, co-direct and executive produce a startling half-hour documentary featuring Sigourney Weaver. ACID TEST explores the impending catastrophe of ocean acidification -- which scientists call the OTHER carbon problem.  (The...continued

Plumber Joe Wants Solar Power and a Plug-in Hybrid

October 16, 2008

Posted by Daniel Hinerfeld in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
energypolicy

I've been fascinated by CNN's "live audience reaction meter" during the presidential debates. The meter's green and orange lines rose and fell as 30-or-so undecided male and female voters in CNN's focus group indicated how they felt about what the...continued

Let’s stick with the clean energy message despite temptations to stray

October 6, 2008

Posted by Daniel Hinerfeld in The Media and the Environment

Tags:
cleanfuels, dirtyfuels, energypolicy, hurricaneike, messaging, offshoredrilling, opportunity

Hurricane Ike spilled at least half a million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico and the wetlands of Louisiana and Texas, according to a review of federal data by the Associated Press, released today.  As proponents of...continued

Daniel Hinerfeld
Daniel Hinerfeld
Deputy Director of Communications
The Robert Redford Building in Santa Monica
I came to NRDC from NPR, where I was a senior editor and producer. A...
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