Posted May 15, 2012 by Dan Lashof in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
Next year, for the first time since 1977, the U.S. Senate will convene without Richard Lugar. Over at the NRDC Action Fund there is a discussion of the political implications of Lugar’s defeat and Nate Silver has a great statistical...continued→
Posted May 4, 2012 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Our friends at 350.org have organized a creative day of action tomorrow to connect the dots between extreme weather and climate change. At hundreds of events around the world climate activists will demonstrate what climate change looks like in their...continued→
Posted April 27, 2012 by Dan Lashof in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming
Wednesday night I was privileged to see the world premier of Knife Fight at the TriBeCa Film Festival. The film is a great political drama directed by the accomplished author and filmmaker (and personal friend) Bill Guttentag. It was co-written...continued→
Posted April 19, 2012 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
On March 27th, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed carbon pollution standards for new fossil fuel-fired power plants. This historic proposal under the Clean Air Act sets national limits on the amount of carbon dioxide that future power plants can emit,...continued→
Posted April 12, 2012 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
The New York Times ran two stories this week based on the premise that the era of fossil fuel scarcity is over, and exploring the implications of this new-found abundance. “Fuel to Burn: Now What?” addressed this question from a...continued→
Posted March 28, 2012 by Dan Lashof in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming
Everyone is talking about methane leaks; it’s time to do something about them. OK, really it’s mostly only policy wonks, but there is an important link to the weird weather everyone really is talking about. Last week I posted on...continued→
Posted March 23, 2012 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
If you live anywhere in the Midwest or the eastern United States you have to be wondering what’s up with the weather. The year without a winter has been followed by summer in springtime. Chicago has had eight 80-degree days...continued→
Posted March 15, 2012 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Last month I wrote about a detailed study of the increasing flooding risks New York City faces due to rising seas and changing storm patterns driven by heat-trapping pollution. The study concluded that what used to be a storm of...continued→
Posted March 14, 2012 by Dan Lashof
Se espera que la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) propondrá normas que limitan la contaminación de carbono procedente de nuevas plantas de energía pronto. Todos dependemos de la EPA para proteger nuestra salud de la contaminación del aire y eso...continued→
Posted March 7, 2012 by Dan Lashof in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to propose standards that limit carbon pollution from new power plants soon. Americans rely on EPA to protect our health from dangerous air pollution and that’s what these standards—along with related standards EPA needs...continued→
Posted February 28, 2012 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Ever since Jim Inhofe first took to the Senate floor to declare that “man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people” in 2003 he has been predicting the imminent collapse of the whole “global warming...continued→
Posted February 23, 2012 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Entrepreneurs have to be optimists. They invest their energy, time, and money based on their vision for the future. Many times their optimism isn’t justified and their enterprise fails. But sometimes they succeed. And when they do they create the...continued→
Posted February 14, 2012 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Shortly after I moved to New York last August the city was hit by an earthquake, a hurricane, and an October snowstorm. These kinds of things aren’t supposed to happen in the Big Apple (if I wanted to live in...continued→
Posted February 8, 2012 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Think fast. What’s the first thought that comes into your mind when you see “climate change”? What’s the first thought that comes into your mind when you see “car crash”? If you are like me, “climate change” conjures a vague...continued→
Posted February 1, 2012 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
How about a little good news for a change? Something strange happened after the failure of comprehensive climate and energy legislation in 2010. Projections of future carbon emissions went down. Part of that is due to the Great Recession of...continued→
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