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Carl Pope is Treasurer of America Coming Together and Executive Director of the Sierra Club, "an organization of 700,000 environmental activists. Pope has spent 30 years in the environmental trenches, and worked to enact such statutes as the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, the Superfund and California Desert Protection Act."

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Carl Pope: The Beginning of Accountability

In one of the most intriguing court decisions in years, the federal district judge who has presided over most of the cases involving responsibility for the damages caused by Hurricane Katrina, Stanwood Duvall, ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers was ...

From CARL POPE, Huffington Post,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Army Corps of Engineers

Carl Pope: Tax the Guy Behind the Tree

I was the second witness yesterday morning as the EPA opened its hearing process on Clean Air Act regulation of greenhouse pollutants. The first was from the American Petroleum Institute (API). He made one point over and over: the EPA shouldn't use the ...

From CARL POPE, Huffington Post,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency,  U.S. Congress,  American Petroleum Institute,  John Kerry,  George W. Bush

Carl Pope: The First Green Veterans Day

People are often very surprised when I explain to them that the Sierra Club now proudly counts among its friends and partners a whole host of veterans organizations -- as well as military families themselves. And certainly the Club had -- and still has ...

From CARL POPE, Huffington Post,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sierra Club,  Ken Burns,  John Muir

Carl Pope: The Election You Didn't Read About

Clear across the country, more "change we can believe in" happened in North Carolina. The city of Charlotte hadn't elected a Democratic mayor in two decades -- not, in fact, since Harvey Gantt, the city's first African-American mayor, stepped down. ...

From CARL POPE, Huffington Post,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sierra Club,  Harvey Gantt,  U.S. Republican Party,  Michael Bloomberg,  Mike O'Brien

Carl Pope: When a Tree Falls in a Forest...

The revival of logging proposals on the Tongass is one of the surest signs that "business as usual" is making a comeback in Washington. So watch closely what Secretary Vilsack does -- it's a sign of just how emboldened the old boy network is feeling ...

From CARL POPE, Huffington Post,  10 Nov 2009

Carl Pope: The Best and Worst of Times

A year ago the American people voted for change. Central to what persuaded them was then-candidate Barack Obama's promise of a new way of thinking about energy and the environment, a restored respect for scientific integrity, and the leveraging of ...

From CARL POPE, Huffington Post,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Lisa P Jackson,  Steven Chu,  U.S. Congress

Carl Pope: Playing by Polish Rule

Want to reply to a comment? Hint: Click "Reply" at the bottom of the comment; after being approved your comment will appear directly underneath the comment you replied to All comments on this article are pre-moderated. This means that every comment ...

From CARL POPE, Huffington Post,  3 Nov 2009

Carl Pope: Is California Really Solving Its Water Crisis?

Sadly, I must disagree. Looking at the big picture, we are still headed for disaster -- and to understand why, we need to go back almost 40 years. In 1973, a month after I had moved to the West Coast, I flew down to Southern California for a Sierra ...

From CARL POPE, Huffington Post,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sierra Club,  Salton, Inc.

Carl Pope: Stop the Hand-Wringing -- 20% Is NOT Hard

Then this year, as a result of the Obama administration's stimulus package, its adoption of even more aggressive vehicle fuel-economy and emission standards for 2016, the cancellation of more coal-fired power plants  , and the economic downturn, EIA ...

From CARL POPE, Huffington Post,  29 Oct 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress

Carl Pope: The River's Going to Do...

The intriguing thing about a conference chock full of present and former officers from the Army Corps of Engineers is that you get all the data you need, but you have to connect the dots yourself. At sessions focused on Hurricane Katrina during the ...

From CARL POPE, Huffington Post,  26 Oct 2009

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