Video Archive
Catch up on the most pressing carbon issues and proposed solutions to our climate crisis by watching partners and representatives of the CPR Initiative across YouTube and Vimeo.
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Recent Events & Statements
Full recording of CPR Initiative’s November 1, 2022 Public Hearing on Climate Action in Boulder, Colorado, with links and timestamps for each speaker.
August 8, 2022 Zoom meeting to discuss how our Petition to Phase Out Greenhouse Gas Pollution fits into recent developments, such as the Schumer / Manchin IRA and SCOTUS decision.
July 8, 2022 Zoom Webinar to discuss the impacts of the Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v EPA on our Petition to Phase Out Greenhouse Gas Pollution.
In a statement in advance of our July 8, 2022 webinar, CPR Initiative General Counsel and Executive Director Dan Galpern offers A Meaningful Antidote to Climate Despair.
Interviews & Guest Appearances
A Citizens’ Suit for the Ages
On a recently-published Climate Emergency Forum program titled “The Legal Battle to Save the World,” Dan Galpern and Donn Viviani discuss our climate lawsuit against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Plaintiffs include experts Viviani, James E. Hansen, John Birks, Richard Heede, and Lise Van Susteren, along with the public interest groups Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions and Climate Protection and Restoration Initiative. Galpern serves as lead counsel.
The far-reaching citizens’ lawsuit seeks to compel EPA to undertake rulemaking aimed at phasing out lethal greenhouse gas pollution.
Saving the EPA From Itself
Join special guests Dan Galpern and Donn Viviani of Climate Protection & Restoration Initiative (CPR Initiative) as they discuss EPA’s recent negative response to their Petition to Phase Out Greenhouse Gas Pollution with Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Charles Gregoire of the Climate Emergency Forum.
WV v. EPA – How Much Law Remains
Special guest Dan Galpern, legal and policy adviser to climate scientist James E. Hansen and founder of Climate Protection & Restoration Initiative (CPR Initiative), joins Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez to provide an important follow up to both the videos ‘Climate Change under U.S. Law – Part 3’ and also the more recent video ‘A Petition to Phase Out Greenhouse Gas Emissions.’ This program provides information about the decision reached, on June 30th, 2022, on the West Virginia versus EPA SCOTUS case and its implications for the CPR petition, which was submitted to the EPA on June 16th, 2022.
Climate Change Under U.S. Law – Part 3
Special guest Dan Galpern, legal and policy adviser to the climate scientist James E. Hansen and the founder of Climate Protection & Restoration Initiative (CPR Initiative), joins Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez in Part 3 of a multi-part series on ‘Climate Change under U.S. Law.’
This program focuses on the potential implications of the West Virginia versus EPA case which was heard by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 28th, 2022. The decision is pending.
Climate Change Under U.S. Law – Part 2
Special guest Dan Galpern, legal and policy adviser to the climate scientist James E. Hansen and the founder of Climate Protection & Restoration Initiative (CPR Initiative), joins Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez in Part 2 of a multi-part series on ‘Climate Change under U.S. Law.’
Climate Change Under U.S. Law – Part 1
Special guest Dan Galpern, legal and policy adviser to the climate scientist James E. Hansen and the founder of Climate Protection & Restoration Initiative (CPR Initiative), joins Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez in Part 1 of a multi-part series on ‘Climate Change under U.S. Law.’
This program focuses on the various facets of CPR’s first initiative, which proposes to protect the climate by introducing a rising carbon fee on oil, gas, and coal using existing federal U.S. law.
Eco-Migration
As global powers continue to emit greenhouse gases and our planet continues to warm, water levels will continue to rise, fires will continue to burn, crops wither in fields, and humans desperate for a place to live and food to eat will continue to be forced from their homes. Raya Salter and Dan Galpern join Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez to discuss eco-migration.
COP Compliance & The Rule of Law
Legal challenges increase commitments, promote collaboration and force compliance using the rule of law, including existing international law, US law and litigation.
National commitments for climate action are essential, yet COP negotiations have led to empty promises. Urgent international collaboration is needed to equitably implement climate solutions. Please sign the petition to President Biden on carbon fees to phase out dangerous GHG emissions.
CPR Initiative has also petitioned the EPA to compel oil, gas and coal companies to clean up their mess by removing excess “legacy” carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) in the air – or else pay into a carbon removal fund to ensure that happens.
Sue the ******, Solve the Problem
Today we discuss with Dr. James Hansen and his legal advisor Dan Galpern, the approaches to reducing our carbon emissions by legal actions. Worth a watch. One successful lawsuit in the form they are describing could really put a crimp in the fossil fuel industry’s plans to kill us all for the sake of profit.
Recorded on December 5, 2019 at COP-25 in Madrid, Spain
Suing the B@stards
On today’s program we have with us attorneys Dan Galpern and Sarah Mead over-viewing for us the opportunities for taking action on climate change by bringing both corporations and governments to court. Please share this program with any attorneys you know, especially the ones who have children. They would be the most likely to take such legal actions since it is their children’s world that is being stolen from them by a destructive alliance of politics and money.
Making the Carbon Majors Pay for Climate Action
Dr. James Hansen and his legal advisor, Daniel Galpern, Esq., discuss making the fossil fuel companies, the ‘Carbon Majors’, pay for the damage they have done to society, not only in terms of climate change and all of its impacts, but also health impacts. This Climate Matters show, videotaped at COP-23 in Bonn, Germany, furthers the idea that the polluters must pay for the damage their pollution causes.