Daniel Lashof is the Science Director of NRDC’s Climate Center. Dr. Lashof has written extensively on many aspects of the global warming problem and national energy policy. His recent publications include Dangerous Addiction: Ending America’s Oil Dependence, A Responsible Energy Policy for the 21st Century, and The Role of Biotic Carbon Stocks in Stabilizing Greenhouse Gas Concentration at Safe Levels. Dr. Lashof was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry and has served on the National Research Council’s Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry. Dr. Lashof has followed international climate negotiations since their inception and attended the Kyoto and Hague Climate Conferences as an observer. Dr. Lashof is frequently asked to testify on aspects of global warming and energy policy before various Congressional Committees, and has appeared on the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour and Crossfire, among other television and radio broadcasts.

Before joining NRDC, Dr. Lashof served on the staff of the US Environmental Protection Agency where he was the lead author and editor of the report to Congress Policy Options for Stabilizing Global Climate. Dr. Lashof obtained his A.B. magna cum laude in Physics and Mathematics from Harvard University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the interdisciplinary Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.

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