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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...
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...
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 18, 2009
Posted by Peter Lehner in Green Enterprise
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- ACES, ARRA, cleanenergy, energyefficiency, greenforall, greenjobs, PERI, publictransit, simplesteps
According to an assessment by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the world is going to invest more than $16 trillion in energy by 2030. There are two ways that we can invest this money: a smart way and a dumb...
July 17, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner
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- climatechange, dimitrizenghelis, hansen, ipcc, james, jamesholden, lovejoy, stern, thomas
At a recent climate conference, scientists John Holden and Thomas Lovejoy demonstrated the current horrors of climate disruption. They also asked a simple question: What’s the right target for CO2 in the atmosphere? Pre-industrial levels were around 280 parts per million. ...
July 2, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner
- Tags:
- airlines, gasprices, globalwarming, transportation, travel
Greedy shop owners are, sadly, not the only ones who both needlessly and thoughtlessly waste energy by keeping the doors to their air-conditioned shops open. A few Saturdays ago, I had to fly to Atlanta. Because of construction at La Guardia,...
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 20, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner
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- efficiency, fuelprices, gasprices, globalwarming, offshoredrilling
Yesterday, I wrote a post about the need to limit opening additional federal lands to offshore drilling. Two comments got me thinking, and made me want to expand upon my thoughts here.One commenter named Wayne said, “What this country needs...
June 18, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner in Green Enterprise
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Reviving the World's Oceans
, Solving Global Warming
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- efficiency, gasprices, globalwarming, greeneconomy, oceans, offshoredrilling
Earlier today, President Bush called upon Congress to lift a ban on offshore oil drilling that was enacted more than 25 years ago. Since then, every President has extended the moratorium – first by President Bush’s father, in 1990, and...
