Climate Policy Director for the New America Foundation and author of Lives per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction; Former Special Advisor for Energy and the Environment in the Office of Governor Schwarzenegger; former Secretary of Environmental Protection at the California Environmental Protection Agency
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