Peter Lehner

Peter Lehner, executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, also teaches environmental law at Columbia University Law School. Chief of the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s office for eight years, he created and led New York City’s environmental prosecution unit.


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In Deep Water
The Anatomy of a Disaster, the Fate of the Gulf, and Ending Our Oil Addiction
by Bob Deans, Peter Lehner
Paperback | $13.95 US / $20.95 CAN

When Deepwater Horizon’s well blew out on April 20, 2010, the resulting explosion claimed eleven lives. Over the next two months, an estimated 200 million gallons of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico, a haven of biodiversity and … Continue reading →