Howard Learner
is a Founder and Executive Director of the Chicago-based Environmental Law and Policy Center
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Learner is the founder and executive director of the Chicago-based Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC), an organization that describes itself as "protecting the Midwest's environment and natural heritage."
Background
Howard Learner is the founder and executive director of the Chicago-based Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC), an organization that describes itself as "protecting the Midwest's environment and natural heritage." Before founding ELPC, Learner was the General Counsel of Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, a public interest law center, specializing in complex civil litigation and policy development. He is an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University Law School, where he teaches an advanced environmental law seminar.
A longtime environmental advisor to President-elect Obama, Learner recently outlined what he viewed as likely policy goals of the Obama administration. His first action item: "put America on a leadership path for solving global warming problems: the moral, business, economic, policy, political and technology challenge of our generation." "It's time for Congress to enact strong federal legislation to reduce global warming pollution and provide stronger incentives for clean energy development solutions," he added.
Other areas of emphasis he articulated were (i) development of national policies to significantly boost energy efficiency standards; (ii) enactment of a national Renewable Energy Standard policy that "ramps up wind and solar power, and other clean energy to be 10% of the nation's energy supply by 2012 and 25% by 2025"; and (iii) investment in transit and high-speed rail.
Learner holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan.
