Posted by Peter Lehner
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...
Posted by Peter Lehner
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....
Posted by Peter Lehner in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
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...
Posted by Peter Lehner in U.S. Law and Policy
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...
