"The Climate War" (True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth)

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Chair’s Air Pollution Seminar

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm PDT
Coastal Hearing Room, Second Floor
1001 I Street, Sacramento

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"The Climate War"
(True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth)

Eric Pooley

Deputy Editor
Bloomberg Businessweek

Eric Pooley, Deputy Editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, will present his findings from three years of research into the political terrain surrounding efforts to combat climate change. His access to key players and decades of experience as a journalist led him to write the widely acclaimed “The Climate War."

Eric Pooley is Deputy Editor of Bloomberg Businessweek.  Mr. Pooley has been recognized with many awards and honors, including a 2001 National Magazine Award (for Time’s single-topic issue on the September 11 attacks, which he helped edit), the 1996 Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency (for his coverage of the Clinton Administration), and four Henry R. Luce awards from Time Inc.  He is also a three-time finalist for the National Magazine Award in categories ranging from General Excellence (for his editorship of Fortune) to Public Service (for a Time cover story that temporarily shut down an unsafe nuclear power plant in Connecticut).

Mr. Pooley has written about climate politics for Time, Slate, Bloomberg News and other publications. In the fall of 2008 he studied press coverage of the issue at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he was a Kalb Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.  He was a featured commentator in Heat, the 2008 PBS Frontline global warming documentary, and has appeared on Nightline, Charlie Rose, The CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Larry King Live, Anderson Cooper 360, All Things Considered, and many other programs.

In 2002 Mr. Pooley was named editor of Time Europe, the London-based international edition of Time, and three years later he became managing editor of Fortune, responsible for all global editorial operations of the magazine.  In 2007 he left Time Inc. and began work on The Climate War.  In 2009 he began writing a climate and energy column for Bloomberg News, and in February 2010 he was named deputy editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

Mr. Pooley began his journalism career as a freelance reporter in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he was an award-winning feature writer, political columnist and senior editor for New York magazine.  He joined Time in 1995 as its White House correspondent and went on to serve as the magazine’s chief political correspondent and national editor.  He is a magna cum laude graduate of Brown University and lives with his wife and two daughters in New York.

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