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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...
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...
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...
April 24, 2009
Posted by Peter Lehner in Living Sustainably
, The Media and the Environment
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- francesbeinecke, heartofgreenawards, lifetimeachievement, thedailygreen
Last night, Hearst's green lifestyle website The Daily Green held its 2009 Heart of Green Awards, honoring those people, organizations and companies that take the green message to the mainstream -- to the "heart" of the American people. The award...
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...
December 20, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner in Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- alliancetosaveenergy, congress, edisonelectricinstitute, energyefficiency, energyfuturecoalition, nationalpressclub
On Friday, I took the train to DC to join a panel discussion on energy efficiency at the National Press Club. NRDC is working with a broad coalition of energy groups that are calling on Congress to use part of...
December 12, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner in Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
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- globalwarming, obamaadministration, simplesteps, victorygarden, worldwarII
At a recent board meeting, NRDC's staff and trustees discussed what big ideas the new administration could propose to engage the American people in solving our tied economic and environmental problems, the way all Americans helped win World War II....
December 10, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner in Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
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- ashokgupta, climatechange, economy, usclimateactionpartnership
I often find myself trying to explain why next year, despite a worldwide economic slump, will present us with such a good opportunity to achieve our climate and energy security goals. Part of the answer, of course, is a new...
July 11, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner
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- chrisjordan, consumption, foodprices, gasprices, malthus, trash, waste
Thomas Malthus has suddenly become popular again. While Americans are concerned about fuel prices, much of the rest of the world is concerned about food prices. In countries like Egypt and Bangladesh, and in regions of Africa, riots have...
June 30, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner
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- beaches, cleanwateract, congress, EPA, sewage, simplesteps, waterpollution, waterquality
We need a lot more environmental information to begin to address the lack of public understanding of environmental harms.This may seem obvious, but it isn’t. At a meeting a few years ago, I was shocked to find the head of...
June 26, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner
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- brookingsinstitution, gasprices, globalwarming, smartgrowth, solvingglobalwarming, transportation
In response to a recent post of mine, a commenter said, “American's can go back to the ‘stone age’ and walk to work and it wouldn't make any difference to the WORLD oil market.” I appreciate your comment, Dan, but...
June 12, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner in Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- clearwatersloop, earthshare, eowilson, hudsonriver, livinggreen, manhattan
A few nights ago, I gave a talk aboard the Clearwater sloop – a 106-foot wooden sailing sloop designed after 18th and 19th century Dutch sailing sloops – at an event sponsored by Earth Share. As we sailed around the...