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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 24, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner
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- climatechange, disinformationcampaign, jameshansen, losangeles, lowcarboneconomy, nasa
Twenty years ago, Dr. James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told the Senate that man-made greenhouse gas emissions were responsible for warming the climate. Yesterday, Hansen returned to the House to deliver a simple message....
June 4, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner in Green Enterprise
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- climatechange, climatesecurityact, greeneconomy, greenjobs, liebermanwarner
When I walk into our New York office every morning, I know I work with people devoted to the environment. In my colleague’s offices, there are pictures of all of their favorite mountains, rivers and oceans. In mine, I have...
May 28, 2008
Posted by Peter Lehner in U.S. Law and Policy
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- carboncapture, globalwarming, legalcareer, liebermanwarner, nycelli, smartgrowth, zoning
Over the coming weeks, law schools all across the country are holding their commencement exercises. On Friday, for instance, I had the privilege to address the graduating class of the New York City Environmental Law Leadership Institute. By the beginning...