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Author: David Doniger is the policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's Climate Center. Before that, he was the director of climate-change policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and, before that, he was counsel to the head of the EPA's clean air program.
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California Dream Come True
Today the Environmental Protection Agency will give California the long-awaited green light to enforce its landmark standards to cut global warming pollution from new motor vehicles. This is a major step in implementing the clean…
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House to Vote on American Clean Energy and Security Act
The House of Representatives will soon vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454). This will be the most important clean energy and climate protection vote that Congress has ever cast. The…
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When In A Hole, Stop Digging
As the urgency of global warming increases, old divides are breaking down and old adversaries are starting to cooperate. Fortune 100 companies have come together with leading environmental organizations in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership,…
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Clean Car Peace Treaty at White House
What a gas! Today I was on hand for President Obama's announcement of new national standards for cars and trucks to cut their global warming pollution and raise their fuel economy. It was a picture-perfect…
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The American Clean Energy Security Act - Quick Survey of Changes from the Discussion Draft
On Monday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will begin a week-long marathon to pass long-overdue clean energy and climate legislation. After more than a month of extensive negotiations among members of the committee, Chairmen…
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Climate Week in Congress and at the EPA
New polls (here, here, and here) show that Americans are eager for Washington to tackle clean energy and global warming. And next Monday, both the Executive and Legislative Branches will swing into action. On Capitol…
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Schooling ABC on the ABCs of "Endangerment"
ABC News is making a big deal about a document attributed to the White House Office of Management and Budget critiquing the Environmental Protection Agency's finding that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are dangerous…
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"Degree of Difficulty" - How to Judge the Waxman-Markey Carbon Reduction Targets
This post written with Dan Lashof In Olympic diving, the judges score each dive based on a mutually-agreed "degree of difficulty." So too in evaluating proposed carbon emission reduction targets for 2020, the judges…
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LIVE CHAT on EPA Determination that Global Warming Pollution Endangers Public Health
Join David Doniger, NRDC's chief global warming attorney, at 1 p.m. Eastern today, April 20, for a special online chat. Doniger will take questions on Friday's official determination by the EPA that global warming pollution…
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Terms of Endangerment: EPA to Cut Global Warming Pollution
At long last, the Environmental Protection Agency today officially recognized that the carbon pollution from our cars and power plants leads to killer heat waves, stronger hurricanes, higher smog levels, and many other direct and…