Don Lieber

About

Don Lieber has written for the United Nations, The Associated Press, The International Campaign to Ban Landmines, The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, E-The Environmental Magazine, and numerous non-profit organizations involved in international humanitarian affairs, the environment, and the arts. He contributes environmental reporting regularly to several blogs including DeSmog. Based in New York, he is also the bass player for the band WIFEY.

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On December 17, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a ban on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in New York State. Citing the health risks associated with fracking, Cuomo said โ€œIโ€™ve never had any...
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โ€œThe Peopleโ€™s Climate Marchโ€ is quickly approaching. ย The level of organization for Sunday's event is more impressive than any other rally โ€” climate or otherwise โ€” this writer has ever witnessed in...
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Is President Obamaโ€™s โ€œall of the aboveโ€ energy policy a success? Or a climateย failure? A report issued recently by Bank of America declared the United States has now surpassed Saudi Arabia as the w...
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Protests erupted in Spain last week at the site of the first major delivery of tar sands crudeย importedย from Canada via the United States.ย ย  According to a news report by EurActiv.com, an online ne...
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A well-deserved show of gratitude to the efficient and reliable fossil fuel sources of American energy independence โ€” oil, coal and gas โ€” is in order, following a truly remarkable string of success...
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My writing for DeSmog, and other blogs, has focused on the problems related to climate change. ย The burning of fossil fuels is at the root of theseย problems.ย  The fossil fuel industries (oil, coal,...
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With scant media attention, climate scientists from Stanford University have concluded that climate change is occurring 10 times faster than at any time in the past 65 million years, and the curren...
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George Shultz, who served as Ronald Reaganโ€™s Secretary of State from 1980 through 1984, is urging strong action on climate change and urging the US to move away from oil. ย ย ย  In an interview in the...
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The deadly oil train disaster in Lac Megantic, Quebec on July 5, which (as of this writing) has left 33 people dead, with 17 still missing, and contaminated over 60 miles of local drinking water so...
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President Obama, during his climate speech last week, surprised many observers by his unexpected remarks about the Keystone XL pipeline.ย ย  The President, for the first time, placed a clear conditio...