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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… Continue reading CPR Initiative on The Radio with Ecotopia KZFR 90.1

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… Continue reading Towards the Return of First Principles, at Year’s End

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… Continue reading EPA Invited to Boulder Climate Action Hearing

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… Continue reading EPA Blew It: But We Will Not Take “No” for an Answer

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… Continue reading Our Meeting With EPA

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… Continue reading A Real Climate Breakthrough? Or,
Kicking the Can Down the Road – Hard

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… Continue reading Beyond West Virginia v. EPA

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… Continue reading An Appeal From A Concerned Grandfather

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… Continue reading Second Major Initiative: Phaseout and Removal of Legacy Fossil Fuel GHG Emissions

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… Continue reading Promises Vague and Elusive*

It was by foot that I drew an intermediate end to this Road to the White House No-Excuses Tour. Soon enough I will post a few considerations about what we have achieved, and what we have begun. But here, in a break from pattern, I simply share that, to judge from the evening of October… Continue reading Afoot in DC, at Night

The dye is nearly cast, or so it is said. A couple of Senate holdouts – Senators Joe Manchin (West-Virginia) and Krystin Sinema (Arizona) – are posturing aggressively and, at times, dismissively, to distinguish themselves from progressive Democrats. In the process, they appear set to derail the entire legislative package that House and Senate Democratic… Continue reading Impasse Without A Cause

Talks over the last 10 days — at the University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Missouri at Kansas City and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor – have been notable for the discussion they provoked. And for a circle that, in my mind, was drawn. As to that circle, I recalled that, as… Continue reading Road to the White House No-Excuses Tour Continues

Along the Road to the White House No-Excuses Tour, CPR Initiative General Counsel & Executive Director Dan Galpern is using the Personal Air Monitor or PAM developed by 2BTechnologies for mapping air pollutants encountered en-route. According to 2BTech, “PAM is designed to measure only the air pollutants for which sensors are highly reliable, which includes… Continue reading Mapping Air Pollutants With 2BTechnologies Personal Air Monitor

In case I did not mention this before, this Road to the White House No-Excuses Tour is not fundamentally about me making a bike trip. It is about galvanizing the public to urge the White House to take real action on climate without further delay. Having said that: I write at 5am from Boise, Capital… Continue reading A Mistake, Not An Excuse

Yesterday’s kick-off event for the Road to the White House No-Excuses Tour went well. Professor Mary Wood was amazingly eloquent, though too generous in her introductory remarks. Atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis was equally amazing by her clear explanation of how global warming-induced disturbances in an already chaotic jet-stream produced the extreme heat and fires afflicting the… Continue reading Justice Breyer Is Just Plain Wrong