Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
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→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Are the goals of energy security and climatic stability fundamentally at odds? Or can we in the U.S. forge ahead toward a preferred future in which we address both these threats? These are valid questions. While we must be...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
As I’ve written about on these pages and in the Huffington Post, the transportation provisions in the recovery bill need to tilt more towards saving oil and cutting global warming pollution, meaning public transportation and rail. I’m not the only...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority for New York State just unveiled a remarkable report, Greening Mass Transit & Metro Regions. It's the product of a Blue Ribbon Commission chaired by Jonathan Rose, an NRDC board member and President of the Rose...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Some call for an Apollo Program for energy. Others, such as Senator Lamar Alexander, a Manhattan Project. I sent a letter to the Forum section of Issues in Science and Technology commenting on an article he wrote about his big...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Now that this historic election is past (NRDC is a nonpartisan organization that does not endorse candidates, so I focus on the future in this entry), the new leaders in the Administration and Congress must tackle the nation’s big problems....continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Check out this op-ed in today's Washington Post by Henry Kissinger and Martin Feldstein, called "The Power of Oil Consumers." It echoes what my colleague Andy Stevenson and I have said about untapped U.S. market power (for those posts, click...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
In my spare time I am reading a book that sheds light on the current debate on energy in D.C.: "The Politics of Bad Ideas." It's a devastating critique of in-vogue supply-side economic ideas like "tax cuts will spur so...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Facing generational, interlaced challenges -- oil addiction and global warming -- it's pathetic that the debate among policymakers isn't about solving these issues, but about fringe issues like domestic drilling. I'm grateful that some friends are speaking their minds, laying bare...continued→
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...continued→
