DANIEL A. LASHOF is the director of NRDC's climate center. He is active in the areas of national energy policy, climate science and solutions to global warming. Dan is involved in developing federal legislation to place enforceable limits on carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping pollutants and to reduce America's dangerous dependence on oil. He has followed international climate negotiations since their inception and is a lead author of the Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the role of land-use change and forestry in exacerbating or mitigating global warming. Dan has testified many times before Congress about energy policy and global warming. He holds a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from Harvard University and a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught environmental science as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland and is the author of numerous articles on climate change science and policy. Press contact: eyoung@nrdc.org, 202-289-6868 NATHANIEL LAWRENCE is a senior attorney and director of NRDC's forest project. Since joining NRDC in 1989, he has worked principally on the conservation of federal forestlands, through litigation, media outreach and advocacy in Congress and the executive branch. Niel's areas of focus include old growth forests, biodiversity, forest health, terrestrial wildlife and water quality. He oversees NRDC's efforts to save wildlands and wildlife in national forests in the interior West, Alaska, Sierra Nevada and elsewhere and has participated in numerous planning processes, appeals and lawsuits. He holds degrees from Harvard Law School and the University of Oregon. Press contact: cnoble@nrdc.org, 415-875-6100 PETER LEHNER is the executive director of NRDC. He is responsible for guiding NRDC's policy positions and advocacy strategies, supervising litigation and managing NRDC's six offices. Before returning to NRDC, Peter served as chief of the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney General's office for eight years. He supervised all environmental litigation by the state, prosecuting a wide variety of polluters and developing innovative multi-state strategies targeting global warming, acid rain and smog-causing emissions from the country's largest electric utility companies. Peter previously served at NRDC as a senior attorney in charge of the water program. Before that, he created and led the environmental prosecution unit for New York City. Peter received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Harvard College and is a graduate of Columbia University Law School, where he continues to teach environmental law. He also has extensive experience in sustainable farming and green business in Central America. Press contact: jpowers@nrdc.org, 212-727-2700 LARRY LEVINE is an attorney in the New York/ New Jersey Harbor Bight project, working on a variety of issues pertaining to water quality, public health and marine ecosystems in the New York and New Jersey coastal region. He was previously a litigation fellow at NRDC and a clinical fellow in environmental law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Larry is a graduate of Yale Law School and Tulane University. Press contact: jpowers@nrdc.org, 212-727-2700 MELISSA LIN PERRELLA is a staff attorney working to improve air quality in Southern California through state advocacy and enforcement of domestic laws, including the Clean Air Act and the California Environmental Quality Act. Before joining NRDC, she worked in private practice as a general litigation associate. Melissa is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and the University of California, Berkeley. Press contact: jlass@nrdc.org, 310-434-2300 BENJAMIN LONGSTRETH is a senior attorney with NRDC's litigation program. Ben clerked for Chief Judge John M. Walker of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and worked in the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He graduated from Columbia Law School and Williams College. Prior to attending law school, he spent several years working on policy issues for NY/NJ Baykeeper. Press contact: singre@nrdc.org, 202-289-6868 DERON LOVAAS is vehicles campaign director and deputy director of the smart growth and transportation program. He currently directs NRDC's oil security issue campaign and served as chief lobbyist on the federal transportation bill. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Deron coordinated Sierra Club's Challenge to Sprawl campaign and managed Zero Population Growth's sprawl educational outreach program. He also worked on transportation and air-quality planning at Maryland's Department of the Environment. Press contact: jbovey@nrdc.org, 202-289-6868 If you are not a member of the press, please write to us at nrdcinfo@nrdc.org.