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 Stories About: climate AND interview AND Terry Tamminen
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Terry Tamminen: Legal strategies to address climate change
There are some good ones |
David Roberts |
17 Jan 2007 |
Gristmill |
| DR: Let's talk legal issues. I can see the analogy between cigarettes causing lung cancer and burning oil causing asthma. You have a reasonably distinct causal chain. You can reasonably point to knowledge on the part of the oil companies. But when it comes to global warming, you have a long and tenuous causal chain, and ambiguous knowledge on the part of the bad actors. It's a kind of second-order externality. Do you think these global warming suits against, ... |
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| Topics: climate, interview, Terry Tamminen (all these topics) |
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One Nation, Under Terry
An interview with California environmental adviser Terry Tamminen |
David Roberts |
04 Jan 2007 |
Main Dish |
| Terry Tamminen is a compact, affable man. With his bluntness and lack of pretense, it's easy to see why Arnold Schwarzenegger trusted him. The California governor brought Tamminen on as his environmental adviser in 2003, elevated him to secretary of the state EPA, and then appointed him a senior cabinet adviser in 2004. In part due to Tamminen's behind-the-scenes influence and t ... |
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| Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, climate, interview, politics, state politics, Terry Tamminen (all these topics) |
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