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President Barack Obama announced the appointment of Harvard Professor Daniel P. Schrag to serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), in a speech at the National Academy of Sciences earlier this week...
...Choosing our current Energy Secretary as our Commencement speaker is a testament of how important energy and climate issues are in society today,” said Daniel P. Schrag, an environmental science and engineering professor who also heads the University’s Center for the Environment. “I think hearing his perspective on how [the nation’s] efforts are progressing will be fantastically important...
...dirty lie” while listing grievances with coal as an energy source. As two of the activists held the banner, another questioned the speaker, CEO of Arch Coal Steven F. Leer, on the viability of coal as a solution to climate change. When moderator Daniel P. Schrag, an earth and planetary sciences professor and director of Harvard University Center for the Environment, asked the objector his name, the man replied, “coal kills.” Several audience members responded to this statement with applause. The interruption concluded when Schrag asked the Rising Tide representatives to leave...
...supporting the “Future of Energy” lecture series. Since then, the bank has extended its funding in order to support two other lecture series: “Green Conversations” and “Biodiversity, Ecology and Global Change.” Daniel P. Schrag, the Center for the Environment’s director, said that Bank of America’s funding has been central to the expansion of the center’s activities. “Only about a quarter of our budget comes directly from the provost...
...Having a president and a vice president who actually think that climate change is a serious issue cannot be a bad thing,” said Daniel P. Schrag, the director of the Center for the Environment and a professor of earth and planetary sciences...