Issues

2009 Car Book “Best Bets”

February 25, 2009

Subcompact

Honda Fit
Hyundai Accent
Audi A4

Compact

Honda Civic/Civic Coupe
Kia Spectra
Pontiac Vibe
Toyota Matrix
Volvo S40

Intermediate

Acura TSX
Ford Fusion/Mercury Milan
Hyundai Genesis
Kia Optima
Lincoln MKZ
Mitsubishi Galant
Nissan Altima
Nissan Maxima

Large

Acura RL
Mercury Grand Marquis

Minivan

Our Mission

February 12, 2009

The goal of the Safe Climate Campaign is to fight global warming by slashing greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve this we run a tough advocacy campaign to accomplish three broad, mutually reinforcing interim goals:

Safe Climate

February 11, 2009

Science, Sources, Solutions, and Impacts

 A Safe Climate for All of Us

Earth to Washington

February 10, 2009

By David Corn

Higher CAFE standards loom as Detroit 3 fight for survival

February 10, 2009

By Harry Stoffer

Nov. 17, 2008

 

…One such advocate, Dan Becker, said he has been lobbying congressional offices to require any aid recipient’s vehicles to average 40 mpg by 2015 — nearly 60 percent higher than today.

"That’s my benchmark," said Becker, formerly of the Sierra Club and now director of the advocacy group Safe Climate Campaign….

A Power Duo, Dingells Battle on Two Fronts

February 10, 2009

By John M. Broder

Nov. 15, 2009

…A few outsiders, however, are willing to speak up. Dan Becker, an environmental lobbyist who has spent 30 years trying to force Detroit to build cleaner and more fuel-efficient cars, said his single biggest obstacle in that time had been Mr. Dingell….

Read the entire story…

Obama selects his team on environment

February 10, 2009

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

February 10, 2009

By Peter Dykstra

Mother Nature Network

Jan. 21, 2009

 

Quotation of the Day

February 10, 2009

Quotation of the Day. 
Jan. 11, 2009.
 
I think the days of the gasoline engine are numbered, even if we don’t know exactly what that number is. DANIEL BECKER, head of the Safe Climate Campaign, part of the Center for Auto Safety. [1]

 

Congress in the Driver’s Seat

February 10, 2009

 

By Kimberly Kindy and Kendra Marr

Washington Post Staff Writers
February 4, 2009