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Connecting the Dots: President Obama Begins Laying Out a Vision for Transportation

February 18, 2009

Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil

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changeinwashington, development, energy, gasoline, highways, infrastructure, lightrail, metropolitan, publictransit, rail, smartercities, sprawl, transportation bill, transportation policy

Last week was a remarkably revealing week regarding this new Administration's transportation policy. First, on February 10th at a Florida town hall meeting, President Obama declares that  I think a lot more people are open now to thinking regionally in...continued

Building a Bridge to Somewhere

October 14, 2008

Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil , U.S. Law and Policy

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cars, cities, development, gasprices, globalwarming, highways, legislation, lightrail, oildependence, policy, publictransit, rail, sprawl, transportation bill

"We built a really inefficient environment with the greatest efficiency ever known to man." -- Andy Karsner, Asst Sec for Energy and Efficiency and Renewable Energy at Department of Energy, as quoted in Tom Friedman's Hot, Flat and Crowded Driving...continued

Yes, Growth Can Be Good

October 29, 2007

Posted by Deron Lovaas in Living Sustainably

Tags:
development, energy, globalwarming, growth, publictransit

Passionate defender of nature Edward Abbey once said that "growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell."Skepticism about growth isn't unusual among those of us interested in conserving natural resources. I have thought a lot about this...continued

Deron Lovaas
Deron Lovaas
Federal Transportation Policy Director
Washington, D.C.
I joined NRDC after working for several other conservation groups and Maryland's Environment Department. I...
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