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  • On this Earthday +1 . . . .

    The Trump II administration’s disavowal of the U.S. commitment on climate takes many forms. There is, of course: But none of the many Trump II depredations on climate…

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  • A Moral Question

    Earlier today, a twice-elected U.S. President declared that “[a] whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”   The declaration was consistent with the same…

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  • ‘Crying through the bloody mist’

    No Kings Rallies, March 28, 2026 Americans — battered, aggrieved, outraged, and determined — arose as millions, gathering and marching today in “No Kings” events held from coast…

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  • Members of Congress: Terminate This War

    By unanimous vote, the CPR Initiative Board of Directors calls on Congress to “impose a moratorium on any further prosecution of, and otherwise terminate the present war against…

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  • ‘Protest and Survive’: observations on the war, climate change and the rule of law

    (Note: Reprinted with the kind permission of the Eugene Weekly.) Until recently, most citizens scarcely imagined that a Trump II assault on the rule of law would extend…

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  • Beyond Indecision: E.P. Thompson, Daniel Ellsberg, and Martin Luther King

    The Eugene Weekly kindly ran my piece today, ‘Protest and Survive’: Observations on the War, Climate Change, and the Rule of Law. In it, I draw connections that…

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  • Illegality All Around: Whither the U.N. Climate Treaty?

    On February 27, the Trump II Administration undertook two actions that strike at the heart of the rules-based international order — or what is left of it. One…

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  • The Global Fallout From America’s Climate Retreat

    Guest opinion by Robert Sussman. Originally published as part of the Environmental Policy Institute’s Environmental Forum. Reprinted here with the kind permission of EPI and the author. ———…

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  • EPA Versus the World

    One news report after another states that, by its repeal of the Endangerment Finding, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has terminated its own authority to restrict climate pollution.…

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  • On Unilateral Withdrawal

    Remain II An open question — one not squarely addressed in my last entry here, Remain in the Climate Treaty — is whether the President may unilaterally lawfully…

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  • Remain in the Climate Treaty

    The caption’s wallpaper depicts the demolition of the East Wing, clearing space for a privately-funded, gilded ballroom. It is an instance of a central theme: short-sighted or chaotic…

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  • When the Law Returns

    One astoundingly bright development stands out, upon review of the international scene during 2025. If nurtured and utilized in the new year, moreover, it could help turn the…

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  • A Clarion Warning on Migration and Climate

    Note: Dr. Eelco J. Rohling is editor-in-chief of Oxford Open Climate Change, Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, NL, and a Member of the Board…

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  • A Failure Nearly Complete: COP 30

    From beginning to end, the recently-completed UN climate conference, in Belém, Brazil, failed to deliver. It is an open question, however, whether that failure is better characterized as…

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  • Now, In Honor of My Mother

    My mother, Lois Dale (Salk) Galpern, died yesterday, October 17, 2025, at 6:55am eastern time, in my arms. I caught her final breath. She was 93. She was…

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  • To Protect the Nation

    At the close of the public comment period, CPR Initiative along with Dr. Donn J Viviani, James E. Hansen, John Fitzgerald, Dr. John Birks, Dr. Lise Van Susteren,…

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  • Dan’s photo of Arny Galpern’s oil painting of Lake Winnemucca, in the Sierra Nevada along the Pacific Crest Trail.

    In Honor of My Father

    [My words delivered to my father’s community the day after his funeral.] My father, Arnold Galpern (Arny), died a few minutes ago, at 10am, September 24, 2025. He…

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  • Up Through the Atmosphere*

    Early this month, the Environmental Protection Agency filed its Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards in the Federal Register. Despite its banal title, EPA’s…

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  • The Sum of Many Parts

    Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opened a several-day public hearing over its “reconsideration” of its 2009 Endangerment Finding and its proposed “repeal all greenhouse gas(GHG) emission standards…

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  • Unwarranted: The Case Against Repeal

    CPR Initiative, including 10 Members of its Boards of Directors and Advisors, strongly counsel the Environmental Protection Agency against repeal of existing GHG emissions standards and guidelines for…

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  • In Search of America

    The searing natural beauty that consecrates nearly every mile of these still formally united states struck me virtually every daylight hour, as I drove recently, coast to coast,…

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  • Declaration of Independence

    Reprinted from the National Archives In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes…

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  • A Finding Doubly Endangered

    More than a minor coda

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  • Our Endangered Climate and The Rule of Law

    A Special presentation at the University of Puget Sound on Thursday, April 3, 2025, at 12:30PM with CPR Initiative’s General Counsel & Executive Director Dan Galpern.

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