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    Promises Vague and Elusive*

    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…

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    Report: Road to the White House No Excuses Tour & COP26

    Zoom Webinar Event Hear from CPR Initiative Executive Director & General Counsel Dan Galpern report back on what has been achieved through the recent Road to the White…

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    What Climate Levers are Left to Pull? An Idea From Out of Center Field

    This Glasgow climate summit is at full pitch now—the world leaders have mercifully packed up their boilerplate and left, and now more serious business is underway. Well, somewhat…

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    COP26: Are climate declarations and emission reduction pledges legally binding?

    Republished with permission of Mongabay. Written by Justin Catanoso on 11 November 2021. The 2015 Paris Agreement is not a treaty between nations, but rather a voluntary accord between…

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  • Atmospheric Recovery Litigation: Making the Fossil Fuel Industry Pay to Restore a Viable Climate System

    Written By Mary Christina Wood & Daniel M Galpern Originally Published in Environmental Law Review (Journal of Lewis & Clark School of Law) (2015) Abstract: At its core,…

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    Climate Change 101: Urgency and Response

    We have only just begun to awaken to the unfolding calamity inherent in human-induced global climate change. . . [B]inding international measures adequate to counter GHG emission trends…

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    Afoot in DC, at Night

    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…

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    Community Event: Boston, MA

    ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE NO-EXCUSES TOUR Boston, MA. Friday, October 8th. Join us for this Road to the White House No-Excuses Tour community event. CPR Initiative General…

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    The Home Stretch

    Join us on October 13th at 12:00PM (ET) From The Road to the White House No Excuses Tour A Special Presentation by Dan Galpern, CPR Initiative General Counsel…

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    Community Event: Washington, DC

    ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE NO-EXCUSES TOUR Washington, DC. Thursday, October 14th. Join us for this Road to the White House No-Excuses Tour community event. CPR Initiative General…

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    Impasse Without A Cause

    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…

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    Road to the White House No-Excuses Tour Continues

    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…

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    Mapping Air Pollutants With 2BTechnologies Personal Air Monitor

    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…

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    Community Event: Boulder, CO

    ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE NO-EXCUSES TOUR Boulder, CO Thursday, September 23rd. Join us at this No-Excuses Tour Event. CPR Initiative General Counsel Dan Galpern will give a…

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    Community Event: Kansas City

    ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE NO-EXCUSES TOUR Kansas City. Monday, September 27th. Stopping Irreversible Climate Change, and What’s Love Got to Do With It? A Road to the…

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  • A Mistake, Not An Excuse

    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…

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    Justice Breyer Is Just Plain Wrong

    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…

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    Community Event: Ann Arbor, MI

    ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE NO-EXCUSES TOUR Ann Arbor, MI What We Can Do Right Now to Arrest Dangerous Climate Change Friday, October 1, 2021. Join us for…

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    Community Event: Burlington, VT

    ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE NO-EXCUSES TOUR Burlington, VT. Tuesday, October 5th. Join us at this Road to the White House No-Excuses Tour Event. CPR Initiative General Counsel…

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    What Can We Do to Arrest Dangerous Climate Change?

    Join us For A Special Presentation by Dan Galpern,General Counsel & Executive Director of CPR Initiative For the Family, Friends & Community ofClimate Activist & Author Hilary Salk…

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    Community Event: Royalton, VT

    ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE NO-EXCUSES TOUR Royalton, VT. Wednesday, October 6th. Join us at this Road to the White House No-Excuses Tour Event. CPR Initiative General Counsel…

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    In Appreciation for Your Support

    Certain states of affairs are beyond our control. Sartre impressively labeled the category “coefficients of adversity.” But many challenges that seem insurmountable are really capable of resolution, if we…

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  • Road to The White House No-Excuses Tour

    At CPR Initiative we have been pressing hard for a rising fee on big oil, gas and coal (Sign the Petition). But now, with broad swaths of western…

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    Community Event: Kick-off of the Road to the White House No-Excuses Tour

    An all-out Climate Protection and Restoration Initiative effort to galvanize the nation to protect and restore our climate system.

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