August 2, 2018
Friends, The Trump administration said this morning it wants to freeze fuel efficiency standards for vehicles made from 2022 to 2025 at current levels and revoke a Clean Air Act waiver that allows California to set its own GHG specifications. Here is the release and a link to the draft rule. This morning EPA’s Bill […]
July 30, 2018
Friends, Starting today with sports since August is close and over the weekend, Geraint Thomas survived the Pyrenees to win his first Tour de France title, concluding his transformation from a support rider into a champion of cycling’s biggest race. The Welsh rider with Team Sky won over Tom Dumoulin and teammate/defending champ Chris Froome. […]
July 30, 2018
Friends, The British Open was exciting with Tiger Woods reemerging as a challenger. His Saturday round put him on top of a major tournament for the first time since 2010. In the end, it was Italian Francisco Molinari, who played alongside Tiger on Sunday and remains red hot, who pulled away to win the famed […]
July 16, 2018
Friends, I hope you had a chance to catch either/both the World Cup Final or Wimbledon. The Friday semifinal between Jason Isner and Kevin Anderson was epic. And then the Djokovic-Nadal Semi was just as crazy. And Anderson knocked out Federer in similar fashion ibn the quarters. In the end, all the extra play couldn’t […]
July 9, 2018
Friends, While we were all celebrating the lighter traffic during July 4th week, EPA head Scott Pruitt resigned and Andy Wheeler has taken his place as acting head. So much to say… Tryin’ to make some sense of it all, I feel like I’m Stuck In the Middle With You …but my friends in the […]
July 2, 2018
Friends, Wasn’t going to do an update today but decided to do a short one because of the crazy World Cup Games, the news about LeBron and – even more interesting – some policy news around the July 4th travel season, the Kigali amendment to the Montreal Protocol on HFC reductions and Trump tweets over […]
June 25, 2018
Friends, It has been a great FIFA World Cup so far. Last week, there was some really great games and some big surprises, including Poland out, Argentina on the brink of elimination and Germany barely surviving with a super late goal to sneak past Sweden. More action this week, including Uruguay-Russia today, a huge games […]
June 18, 2018
Friends, The winner of the 2018 US Open for golf this year was Shinnecock Hills. Yes, Brooks Koepka took home the trophy for the second straight year – which is amazing and rare – but the course really was the overall winner, proving tougher than even many of the greatest players in the world could […]
June 11, 2018
Friends, What a sports weekend…. C-A-P-S, Caps, Caps, Caps. As you know, I am a Detroit guy but kudos to my second hometown who won their first Stanley Cup ever on Thursday and it was a thrilling ride for DC. The WaPo has the Day-In-The-Life and the Caps after-party details with Cup. And the party […]
June 6, 2018
Friends, After a fun trip through SoCal (yes, my kids always love that we drive right past things like the San Onofre nuclear plant, San Gorgonio Wind Park and Andeavor’s LA Refineries), we are ready to get back to the action. Before that though, it is exciting to see the energy in DC and Vegas […]