Issues
Obama selects his team on environment
By John M. Broder
Dec. 11, 2009.
…Browner, a lawyer, is well known in Washington and around the country as a forceful environmental advocate and experienced capital player. She is married to Tom Downey. a former New York congressman.
"She was a really strong administrator in really tough times," said Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign, an environmental group….
Political Habitat: After the Ball
By Peter Dykstra
Mother Nature Network
Jan. 21, 2009
Quotation of the Day
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Congress in the Driver’s Seat
Washington Post Staff Writers
February 4, 2009
Obama counters Bush on auto standards
Jan. 17, 2009
By Lisa Wangsness
…"He’s telling the states that they can lead, the feds that they’re going to have to follow, and really telling the whole world that the knuckle-dragging US is lifting its knuckles off the ground and we are going to take the global warming issue very seriously," said Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign…
Commentaries by the Safe Climate Campaign
Tea Party Misses Target
(Richmond Times-Dispatch)
October 22, 2010
By Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang
WASHINGTON In their zeal to live free from outside interference, the Tea Parties are shooting at the wrong target.
They would be right to be angry with an oil industry poisoning their water, an auto industry polluting their air, and agribusiness providing unsafe food.
Instead they are attacking the government, the only entity that can protect their water, their atmosphere, their food.
Board of Advisors
SAFE CLIMATE CAMPAIGN BOARD OF ADVISORS
James P. Barrett, Ph.D.
Economist, Consultant
Chair of the Board
Redefining Progress
Jos Dings
Director
Policy Solutions
Policy Solutions
Fuel Economy and Tailpipe Greenhouse Gas Standards
When the United States was considering its first attempt to save oil more than three decades ago, a Ford Motor Co. official testified against the bill before Congress.