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May 14, 2010
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- airpollution, cleanairact, climatelegislation, newsourcereview
There is much to commend in Senator Kerry’s and Senator Lieberman’s just-released comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation, beginning with solid core carbon pollution limits. These emission limits tighten every year and will drive investments in clean energy that create...
March 16, 2010
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
, Solving Global Warming
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- centerforamericanprogress, cleancars, cleanenergy, economy, EPA, fuelefficiency, globalwarming, jobs, UAW, vehicles
Today, NRDC with the UAW and the Center for American Progress released a new report that demonstrates that fuel efficiency can go hand in hand with creating tens of thousands of high quality, clean energy manufacturing jobs. This is a...
January 28, 2010
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- eisenhower, highspeedrail, obama, SOTU, stateoftheunion, trains
Last night, I wrote that I was excited to hear President Obama lay out plans to recover the economy, enhance our energy security, and cut pollution by investing in an efficient, 21st-century high-speed rail network. But I had no idea how...
January 27, 2010
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- eisenhower, highspeedrail, obama, SOTU, stateoftheunion, trains
As I watched President Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight, I was excited to see the President connect the nation’s most pressing priorities with his vision of a modern high-speed rail network, following in the footsteps of President Dwight...
October 27, 2009
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Green Enterprise
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
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- cleanair, cleantrucks, dieselpollution, mayorbloomberg, pollution, portoflongbeach, portoflosangeles, sierraclub
This post was co-written with Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. NRDC and Sierra Club are members of the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports, supporters of the clean truck program. "Cancer alley." That's what many Southern Californians...
October 5, 2009
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- americanelectricpowercompany, cleanair, EPA, lisajackson
It's been a good couple of weeks for the clean air advocates. First the federal appeals court in New York decided that a group of states and others could bring a nuisance case seeking to require the country's largest global...
September 15, 2009
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, The Media and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cleanwater, cleanwateract, EPA, lisajackson, newyorktimes, pollution
During eight years as chief of the Environmental Protection Bureau in the New York State Attorney General's Office, I had the political backing necessary to take on large corporate polluters. Such support is crucial to enforce the hard-won standards contained...
September 2, 2009
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
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- alecbaldwin, billiejeanking, energy, energyefficiency, green-e, levy, plastic, psa, recycling, simplesteps, tennis, usopen, USTA, ustennisassociation, venuswilliams
This weekend, I had the pleasure of participating in a US Open event. No - not a tennis match - but something that is still an integral part of the US Open: the announcement of this year's greening initiative. This...
August 25, 2009
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- allianceforclimateprotection, bluegreenalliance, cleanenergy, cleveland, jobs, leegeisse, madeinamerica, ohio, rallies, steelworkers, tomconway, tour, wind
A ferocious storm provided an electrifying backdrop for the recent kick-off of the Made in America Jobs Tour, the first of 22 rallies across the country to promote the job creating potential of a new clean energy economy. This tour...
June 20, 2009
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- EPA, housing, jackson, lahood, partnershipforsustainablecommunities, transportation, urban
President Obama reached across the political aisle when he selected Representative Ray LaHood, a Republican from Illinois, as his Transportation Secretary. The appointment was met by some skepticism: LaHood's resume on transportation issues was decried as very thin. But Secretary...
January 29, 2009
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Living Sustainably
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- coal, coalspill, jhenryfair, kentucky, mountaintopmining
As a lawyer, I've written about environmental harms quite often. Yet as I recently flew over several of the larger mountaintop mines in eastern Kentucky, I struggled to find the words to describe the devastation. The scars where trees, topsoil...
January 28, 2009
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
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- CATIE, centerfortropicalagricultureinvestigationandeducation, costarica, josejoaquincampos, rainforest, vochysia
TURRIALBA, Costa Rica -- There is a reason they call them rainforests. It was pouring as I put the first tree into the ground here in a new forest that NRDC is planting with the support of our members. The...
January 17, 2009
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
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- changeinwashington, EPA, lisajackson, marketincentives, pollution
This is the final part of my three-part open letter to the new EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, regarding the changes that are needed to help us tackle urgent environmental problems more effectively. Yesterday, I wrote about how we can better...
January 16, 2009
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
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- americanelectricpower, changeinwashington, EPA, lisajackson, newsourcereview, newyorkuniversitylawschool, NSR, pacelawschool, regionalgreenhousegasinitiatives, RGGI
This is part two of my three-part series on the ways the new administration, guided by a revitalized EPA, can strengthen environmental protections, and steer America away from the threats of climate change, toxic pollution and other environmental disasters. Yesterday,...
January 14, 2009
Posted by Peter Lehner in Curbing Pollution
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- americanelectricpower, changeinwashington, EPA, LisaJackson, NewSourceReview, newyorkuniversitylawschool, NSR, PaceLawSchool, regionalgreenhousegasinitiatives, RGGI
My colleagues and I at NRDC were pleased at President-elect Obama's recent announcement that Lisa Jackson will head the Environmental Protection Agency. Lisa has been a strong, honest and knowledgeable voice for the environment as Commissioner of the New Jersey...
