Supreme Illogic: Our High Court’s Tortured Ballot-Access Ruling, with Some Direct Implications
Several months ago, from Dubai, I offered an elementary observation in a talk to a number of climate…
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Dan is an environmental and climate attorney and policy analyst. Since 2011, Dan has served as legal and policy adviser to the climate scientist James E. Hansen – including with respect to administrative, criminal and civil state and federal actions in California, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, Washington D.C., Colombia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Uganda, and the United Kingdom.
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Dan is founder, general counsel, and executive director of Climate Protection and Restoration Initiative. The public interest, non-profit group’s website is CPRClimate.org. CPR Initiative seeks to arrest the climate crisis by its advocacy of stringent enforcement of bedrock domestic environmental and international law, and through engagement with the informed public. An archive of Dan’s blog at CPR Initiative is freely available here.
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Dan’s expertise and counseling has served me well for over a decade.
DR. JAMES E. HANSEN
Director of Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions, a program of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York City
An experienced and dedicated attorney, who really cares.
DONN J. VIVIANI
Board President of Climate Protection & Restoration Initiative, and a veteran EPA Scientist with 30 years of service
A wealth of knowledge and passion for the law and public interests.
JOHN M. FITZGERALD
Board Vice President of Climate Protection & Restoration Initiative, and a retiring lawyer with extensive experience in litigation and legislation
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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 Col…