Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil , U.S. Law and Policy
Greetings from Washington, D.C., where some policymakers are becoming delusional about energy. Take the recent drop in prices. Some claim that President Bush deserves credit for simply talking. Even more hot air is comes from a small band of Congressmen...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
As the late, great Tim Russert's late, great mentor Senator Moynihan said to an electoral opponent: Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.This applies to Presidents too, but Bush just doesn't get it. As a...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
I'm sick of it.There's a new campaign with a bumper sticker slogan that's attracting a lot of attention because it offers easy solutions to our oil-addiction woes. You may have seen it: Drill here, drill now, pay less. Sheer deception....
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
There has been a lot of talk recently about lifting the moratorium on oil drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf. Hearing about proposals like this always leaves me a little stunned because we have been speeding down this road for...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
There has been a lot of talk recently about lifting the moratorium on oil drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf. Hearing about proposals like this always leaves me a little stunned because we have been speeding down this road for...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Hear that sound? It's the shattering of records. Oil prices rose to nearly $140 per barrel in the oil futures market, driving the national average gas price to $4 a gallon for the first time, hitting those with lower incomes...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
We all love rankings. Who's up? Who's down? What would change the picture?Today, the Brookings Institution -- a think tank -- released a first-of-a-kind ranking (full-disclosure, I was a reviewer): They rated the 100 largest U.S. regions based on their...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Pulling up to the pump nowadays is about as much fun as a trip to the dentist. But is the pain we feel really worse than previous price runups? In a word, yes. The average price of gasoline has...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Another analysis was just released, this time by the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in Britain, making the case that climate change would be a driver for serious conflict around the globe, describing among other events...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Gas taxes, federal and state, are key revenue sources for public investments in transportation infrastructure and operations. At the federal level, the gas tax has been around since 1932, although it wasn't actually made exclusively available for transportation purposes until...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
I cut my teeth on environmental work volunteering with the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) back in 1991. This was in the wake of 1990, a remarkable time which included the twentieth anniversary of Earth Day, Congress amending the Clean...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
I love to fly.No surprise, given my upbringing as a "global nomad" or a "third culture kid" who grew up in a half-dozen countries, attending 7 different schools from K-12. In fact, one of the books I'm reading now is...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
A New York City blog saw me quoted in the Wall Street Journal on February 5th talking about the need to face pollution caused by ever-increasing driving of our cars and trucks.As I told the reporter, there is growing interest...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Oil prices hit $100 a barrel again yesterday due to market jitters, a move that will translate into more pain for struggling consumers. This is in part due to unfortunate, hard-to-control factors, notably supply cutoff threats from Hugo Chavez and...
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
At the end of last year, NRDC joined the Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, Friends of the Earth and Oceana in petitioning EPA to address heat-trapping emissions from aircraft. While its contribution to global warming pollution is small relative to...
