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  • Think Globally Act Locally

    CPR Initiative’s Board Members are active on the state level as well as the national scene. Board President Donn Viviani wrote the below Op-ed in the Hawaii Star…

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  • Agencies Can, and Must, Protect the Nation

    Loss of Chevron Deference is No Excuse

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  • Now a King, Above the Law

    Former President Trump has promised repeatedly that, should he retake office, he will assume dictatorial powers, if only on Day One, in order to launch a massive expansion…

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  • On the Duty to Tell the Truth About Oil, Gas and Coal

    Our unenviable predicament with respect to our planet’s climate system is the direct consequence of scores of critical decisions taken by government and industry. Can we expect to…

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  • Public Hearing on Climate Action: Hayward, CA

    Wednesday, August 7, 2024 Co-hosted by CPR Initiative and the City of Hayward, California

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  • “A Key Assumption”

    Mark. It. Down. April 25, 2024 On this day, oral argument was held before the Supreme Court, in Trump v. The United States. The critical question: whether former…

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  • A Real Methane Fee (Not)

    I had hoped that EPA’s proposed methane Waste Emissions Charge, intended to implement a part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act — and to complement the just-published oil…

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  • Supreme Illogic: Our High Court’s Tortured Ballot-Access Ruling

    Several months ago, from Dubai, I offered an elementary observation in a talk to a number of climate activists: We simply cannot, and must not, depend on the…

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  • CPR Initiative’s Third Public Hearing on Climate Action

    We are pleased to announce publication of our Third Public Hearing on Climate Action. Please see here for the full archive. (The hearing index to it is still…

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  • Not a King, and Not Immune:
    the DC Circuit Court’s Clarion Order

    On Tuesday, in a closely reasoned and narrow ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously rejected the most extravagant assertions of immunity from…

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  • Watch the Recording: CPR Initiative’s 3rd Public Hearing on Climate Action

    Held on January 25, 2024 at the Community Environmental Hub, in Santa Barbara, California. Co-hosted by CPR Initiative and the Community Environmental Council of Santa Barbara.

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  • Contending with Global Warming in the Pipeline,
    and Beyond

    At the outset of COP28, CPR Initiative’s Dan Galpern warned that the nations had “better not fail,” and specifically pointed to the recent study, “Global Warming in the…

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  • COP28 ‘breakthrough’ elevates litigation as vital route to climate action

    by Justin Catanoso on 13 December 2023 originally published on Mongabay Even as organizers of the UN climate summit in Dubai, known as COP28, cheered a “breakthrough” agreement “transitioning away…

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  • Tipping Again

    On December 6, 2023, smack dab in the middle of COP28, a powerful, clearly written, and rather comprehensive report, Global Tipping Points, was released by the University of…

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  • A Petrostate-Captured COP

    In my last post, here, I raised what I considered a singularly-critical question arising  from the recently-concluded COP28:  Why did the recently-concluded 28th Conference of the Parties to…

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  • Was it the ‘Beginning of the End’? COP28 & the Aspirational Fossil Fuel Phase Out

    I fervently hoped to be proven wrong. In a blog post on Nov. 30, two days before my arrival in Dubai, I had predicted that the 28th Conference…

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  • New and Young Voters: Do not Sit It Out

    I direct myself to new and young eligible voters in the United States, though I speak today from Dubai—a city-state that is suffused right now with a toxic…

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  • 3rd CPR Initiative Hearing on Climate Action

    CPR Initiative Public Hearing on Climate Action in Santa Barbara, California on January 25, 2024. Co-hosted by the Community Environmental Council.

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  • Breathless in Dubai

    The relevant authorities here declared yesterday to be “COP28 Health Day.” An explanation is warranted. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate (UNFCCC, or “Framework Convention”) was produced…

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  • A Debacle Brewing in Dubai

    We are sleepwalking towards catastrophe no longer. . . . Instead, we are now sprinting toward it, eyes wide open.

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  • Time to “sit up and take notice”

    James Hansen warns of global warming in the pipeline The renowned climate scientist James E. Hansen, along with a slew of colleagues, have gone and done it again.…

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  • Watch the Recording: CPR Initiative’s Second Public Hearing on Climate Action

    Held on September 29, 2023 in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Co-hosted by CPR Initiative, the Environmental Law Program at the University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson School of Law, and…

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  • “Let Us Bend the Arc of History”

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

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  • University of Pennsylvania Public Lecture

    September 20, 2023 | 12PM to 1PM

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