13 Facts About Rafe Pomerance

Rafe Pomerance was born on July 19,1946 and is an American environmentalist.

Rafe Pomerance is a Distinguished Senior Arctic Policy Fellow of the Woodwell Climate Research Center.

Rafe Pomerance is a grandson of Maurice Wertheim and Alma Morgenthau, and great-grandson of Henry Morgenthau Sr.

Rafe Pomerance began his environmental career in 1972 working for the Urban Environment Conference under Senator Phil Hart where they worked on issues of lead in gasoline and reforming the highway trust fund.

Rafe Pomerance joined the Friends of the Earth in 1975 lobbying for clean air and was its president for four years until 1984.

Rafe Pomerance left the department in 1999 and founded a non-profit, Climate Policy Center where he led a successful effort to get the Federal Government to found the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, which was signed into law in 2007.

Rafe Pomerance is an advisor to Rethink Energy Florida and their project "Keep Florida Above Water".

Rafe Pomerance has served as President of the Board of American Rivers, Chairman of the Board of the League of Conservation Voters, and the Potomac Conservancy.

Rafe Pomerance first became interested in climate change after reading a 1978 EPA report, "Environmental Assessment of Coal Liquefaction: Annual Report".

Rafe Pomerance teamed up with scientist Gordon MacDonald and began scheduling meetings with government officials to discuss the issue of climate change.

Rafe Pomerance joined the World Resources Institute in 1986 and continued to attempt to fight for climate change policy.

Rafe Pomerance is considered by the Climate Institute an "Unsung Hero of the Climate Wars".

Rafe Pomerance's lobbying efforts in the 1980s were the subject of a 2018 New York Times article entitled "Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change".