Daniel J. Weiss 
The Basics
- Name: Daniel J. Weiss
- Location: Washington, D.C.
More About Me
Daniel J. Weiss is a Senior Fellow and the Director of Climate Strategy at American Progress, where he leads the Center's clean energy and climate advocacy campaign. Before coming to American Progress, he spent 25 years working with environmental advocacy organizations and political campaigns.
Daniel J. Weiss’s Posts
Senators opposed to Clean Energy Jobs Act are ignoring bill’s benefits to Americans -- Part 2 0
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days agoThe Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (CEJAPA), by an 11-1 vote. Earlier this week, we outlined six benefits of the bill and explained why the bill should be passed by the committee. Here are nine more benefits as the legislation moves forward.The ‘party of no’ becomes the ‘party of slow’ 1
Posted 2 weeks, 5 days agoSenate Republicans are demanding lengthy economic analyses of progressive clean energy policy, despite having spent careers voting for and against major energy legislation without such delay.Senators opposed to Clean Energy Jobs Act are ignoring bill’s benefits to Americans -- Part 1 2
Posted 3 weeks agoWhile the obstructionists attempt to block progress, they will also stop many provisions that would benefit Americans. Daniel J. Weiss lists a number of important benefits that government and academic analyses determined about ACES that also apply to the CEJAPA.the spiraling cost of inaction
Global warming triggers more disasters 4
Posted 3 months, 1 week agoThe ferocity of tropical storms and spread of wildfires will increase as the planet warms. Nonetheless, House opponents of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, H.R. 2454, spoke during the bill's June debate as if there were little urgency for action or costs to delay reductions in global warming pollution.
EPA: Waxman-Markey will lower electricity bills 0
Posted 5 months agoThe main argument conservatives and big oil and coal companies use against the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) is that it would cripple American households with a crushing energy tax. To make that claim, they have distorted cost estimates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and conducted their own biased studies. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency obliterated these phony numbers with the release of its economic analysis of H.R. 2454. The EPA estimated the bill would actually lower household electricity bills