David B. Sandalow

David B. Sandalow is the Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs at the Energy Department, a position he has held since 2009.^[1]

Prior to his appointment, he was a Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, as well as an Energy and Environment Scholar, at the Brookings Institution. He also chairs the Energy & Climate Change Working Group at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).^[2]

He is J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 1982; B.A., Yale College, 1978

He was Executive Vice President, World Wildlife Fund ( World Wide Fund for Nature WWF-US) 2001-2003.

He was Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. State Department. (Brookings Bio picture )

He was Attorney, Office of General Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Freedom From Oil

He wrote Freedom From Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction .^[3]

It includes a Presidential Plan to End Oil Dependence starts with a Clean Vehicle Executive Order, priming the pump by:

• Offering to buy 30,000 plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) at an $8,000 premium.
• Committing after their delivery that half the vehicles purchased by the federal government will be PHEVs. That's a much stronger version of Pres. Bush's Order, which has had no impact.
• Legislation to retool US auto factories and assume some auto industry health costs.
• Consumer tax credits of $8,000 for the first million PHEVs and $4,000 for the second million.
• Replacing CAFE standards with Fuel Reduction and Energy Efficiency (FREEdom) standards
• A Federal Battery Guarantee Corporation to help manufacturers provide 10-year battery warranties for the first million cars The book ends with a Presidential speech calling for "new ways of doing business that create jobs, cut pollution and make us stronger," and "proposing a grand bargain with American automakers. If you invest in advanced technologies, we'll invest in you."

He is also editor of the 2009 Brookings Institution book Plug-In Electric Vehicles: What Role for Washington?^[4]

See also

• Jon Wellinghoff

References

1. ^ Department of Energy.gov, http://www.energy.gov/organization/davidsandalow.htm
2. ^ Department of Energy.gov, http://www.energy.gov/organization/davidsandalow.htm
3. ^ Freedom From Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction, McGraw Hill, ISBN 0071489061, 2007-10-01. (http://www.calcars.org/books.html#ffo )
4. ^ David B. Sandalow, ed (2009). Plug-In Electric Vehicles: What Role for Washington? (1st. ed.). The Brookings Institution. ISBN 978-0-8157-0305-1. http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/2009/pluginelectricvehicles.aspx. 

See also

• OnPoint, 16 October 2007: Brookings Institution's David Sandalow lays out plan to end United States' oil addiction

Government offices
Preceded by Eileen Claussen	Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs October 28, 1999 – January 19, 2001	Succeeded by John F. Turner

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