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Joe Biden, September 19, 2023 at the UN General Assembly

Without a corresponding constriction on US production of fossil fuels, their lessened use in the United States may result in an increase, perhaps a substantial increase, in the export of oil, gas and coal to nations without similar controls. Dan Galpern, General Counsel & Executive Director, CPR Initiative On Aug. 8, 2023, I submitted a … Read more

Wildland fires in Canada were tamped down a bit last week, particularly in north-central Quebec where a large low-pressure system was “wandering around the Hudson Bay area,” delivering some rain. Nonetheless, a great swath of Canada’s wildland remains on fire, particularly in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and even in Quebec. We produced the arresting night … Read more

In May, together with the United States Department of Justice, we filed a “Joint Stipulation of Dismissal” of our federal lawsuit. We can summarize the proceedings to that point. In June 2022, our plaintiffs’ group filed our Petition to Phase Out Greenhouse Gas Pollution. In its September 14, 2022 response, EPA denied our petition, in part, on … Read more

A bench trial began on Monday in Helena before Judge Kathy Seeley of the Montana First Judicial District Court. In Held v. State of Montana, the question now is whether a statute barring state agencies from considering impacts to the climate system infringes on the inalienable rights established in the state constitution to “a clean … Read more

What is the United States Supreme Court up to, with respect to the climate and environmental crises? Is its conservative majority hell-bent on inserting itself as the nation’s chief environmental regulator, displacing the Environmental Protection Agency – indeed, stripping EPA of authority that Congress plainly sought to confer? Or is the current majority merely, in … Read more

Listen to KZFR 90.1 Chico, Ecotopia’s recording from Tuesday, March 21, 2023. General Counsel & Executive Director of CPR Initiative Dan Galpern spoke with Ecotopia hosts Susan and Stephen Tchudi about CPR Initiative’s Petition to EPA to Phase Out Greenhouse Gas Pollution, the latest on CPR Initiative’s Citizen’s Climate Lawsuit, and his upcoming event, Legal … Read more

By Dan Galpern, CPR Initiative General Council & Executive Director The rule of law, a prerequisite to justice and fairness, is also fundamental to the ability of governments to attend to their primary duty — “the care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction.” (Thomas Jefferson, March 31, 1809, To the Republicans of … Read more

A Message from CPR Initiative Board President Donn J. Viviani

CPR Initiative Submits Freedom of Information Act Request to EPA

Indeed, EPA Is Invited! Even with new federal investments contained in the IRA and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, alongside existing and proposed EPA rules to control GHG emissions from various sectors, CPR Initiative and the City of Boulder believe that additional federal action is needed on climate. Accordingly, by letter of October 21, 2022, we invited EPA to attend … Read more

On September 13, 2022, on the South Lawn of the White House, following a month of political planning, in an event that reportedly “had all the markings of a pep rally,” President Biden led a celebration of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Sharing the stage with House Speaker Pelosi, Senate Leader Schumer, and West Virginia … Read more

Frank Talk: Necessary, But Not Sufficient On August 31, and again on September 7, every individual Petitioner and I met with key Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials. We aimed to discern if the Agency retained any substantial question or concern with respect to our Petition to Phase Out Greenhouse Gas Pollution to Restore a Stable … Read more

The climate-related investments in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, as agreed to Wednesday by Senators Manchin and Schumer, simply do not transform it into a climate bill. Does the Act amount to “the greatest pro-climate legislation that has ever been passed by Congress,” as Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer proclaimed? Or else, is it … Read more

To encourage more public engagement, I now commit to ride my recumbent trike (with an electric assist) one mile for each endorsement received, another mile for each campaign sponsorship, and yet another for each public comment submitted through our portal, in support of our Petition. One mile for each, totaling at least 2,857 miles by the September 14 deadline.

On June 16, 2022, we will file with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) our Petition to Phase Out Greenhouse (GHG) Pollution to Restore a Stable and Secure Climate. The decarbonization demand is ambitious, but no more than is required to secure our children’s future.

Beyond West Virginia v. EPA:The President Needs to Act, Without Further Delay, to Arrest Dangerous Climate Change The right to privacy is on the Supreme Court’s chopping block this month. To judge by its leaked draft, the Court, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, is preparing a “maximalist assault on progressive constitutionalism” – to appropriate … Read more

December 31, 2021 Dear Friends, I don’t know how to address you otherwise, but I do know this: Sometime in 2021 you signed on to Climate Protection and Restoration Initiative’s petition to President Biden to phase out dangerous fossil fuel greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions without delay. I did, too. I also know that on Monday … Read more

I am pleased to announce that, on Thursday, December 23, 2021, we submitted a draft petition with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S Regan demanding EPA action to halt additional fossil fuel greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removal of legacy emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4). We provided the Petition Seeking A Phaseout … Read more

Introduction Admittedly I was a wee bit surly when I made it, at last, to my Heathrow hotel. It was late on Nov. 15. I’d been traveling first by train, and then, the last 10 hours, by foot, laden with a 60-pound pack, scurrying from one meeting to the next, over several London bridges. It … Read more