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On the Way: More MPG NET Gain for the Pew Environment Group a Good Year for Election Reform? Public Pensions on the Precipice Notes from the President VOLUME 11 / NUMBER 1 / SPRING 2008 TrThe Pew uCharitabs le Trtusts On the Way: More MPG NET Gain for the Pew Environment Group A Good Year for Election Reform? Public Pensions on the Precipice Notes from the President investments in cleaner vehicle tech - The Pew Center on the States also nologies. produces its own research and analysis , Helping drive the effort was the as in Promises with a Price , the first re- National Environmental Trust, begun por t of its kind to examine the pension , in 1994 by Pew and other donors. Over health-care and other retirement bene - Open Roads the years, NET built an experienced fits owed by each of the 50 states to staff of public-policy and campaign their employees over the next three professionals who played a central decades. Currently, the obligations role in both U.S. environmental policy far exceed the funds available. Pay - istory shows that the auto - discussions and international treaty ing the impending bill will require a mobile had a slow start. In negotiations. The Pew Environment significant outlay of taxpayer dollars, H1509, Leonardo da Vinci described a Group partnered with NET on many and the states must muster the politi - device that, centuries later, would be public- education campaigns . Now, Pew cal will to make the necessary invest - called a predecessor of the internal has added NET’s expertise and effec - ments. The report presents irrefutable combustion engine, whose incremen - tiveness through a merger that literally data and then describes some of the tal development in the 19th century creates a whole greater than the sum fiscally responsible steps that states made the automobile possible. Then of its parts. “We are poised to enter a can take, with examples from those innovation came fast and furious. new era in Pew’s environmental demonstrating leadership. One aspect of the growing indus try, history,” says the group’s managing however, lost ground: fuel efficiency. director, Josh Reichert, “and we are small note to mark two In 1903, a touring car reached 15 better equipped than ever to produce anniversaries. This issue of miles per gallon. Some 70 years later, enduring results.” Trust marks a full decade of cars averaged only about 13 miles per publication. In the first gallon. tate governments are pulling a Aissue, we said that the new magazine In 1975, in the wake of an oil crisis, heavy load with an expanding would describe “the work, commit - Congress set standards for fleet- wide array of responsibilities. Edu - ment, passion and persistence of our efficiency, known as corporate aver - cation now includes preschool, partners and the people they serve.” age fuel economy or CAFE. The goal Sthe criminal-justice systems must That it has done—in a way that recalls was 18 miles per gallon in 1978 models, control costs without sacrificing public advice to an author from one of our rising to 27.5 by 1985. safety, and policy makers seek to founders, J. Howard Pew, back in 1963 . Since then, the world has changed strengthen government performance. Mr. Pew returned an unsolicited book in many ways. Terrorism has become The states are also facing new issues, manuscript because of the “technical” a threat in virtually every country. The such as global warming. For these presentation of the material: “It must world’s known reserves of petroleum and other concerns, the Pew Center be told,” he counseled the writer, “in are expected to last only several more on the States is an invaluable navigation story form.” Compelling narratives decades at current consumption levels. system, helping states steer a steady and images have been Trust ’s stock in And human-caused greenhouse gas course over often-difficult terrain. It trade, conveying our approach and emis sions—in part due to transporta - conducts trustworthy research, brings solutions to crucial matters of our era. tion—have been confirmed as a factor in together a variety of perspectives and Sixty years ago, The Pew Charitable global warming. Yet the long-outdated advances nonpartisan, pragmatic solu - Trusts was established. The four found - standard of the 1975 law remained in tions for pressing problems. ing philanthropists invested their hopes, place until Dec ember of last year, when Two center initiatives are featured values and an entrepreneurial spirit in a new federal law set the goal of 35 miles in this issue. One is electionline.org, the new institution, and these quali - per gallon by 2020. which Pew established as a neutral ties remain our con stant compass, The Pew Campaign for Fuel Effi - clearinghouse for information about even though the conte mporary world ciency helped Congress reach this election reform after the voting deba - is markedly different from theirs. In destination by providing the public and cle during the 2000 presidential elec - this anniversary year, we rededicate policy makers fact-based maps for the tion. This effort evolved to provide ourselves to their vision and mandate debate. Like all of Pew’s work, the unbiased and accurate information to apply the power of knowledge to campaign’s case was strictly nonparti - and guidance to federal, state and local serve the public interest. san: Increased standards will reduce election officials on trends, important our dependence on oil, enhance security, issues and best practices in conducting Rebecca W. Rimel save consumers money and stimulate elections. President and CEO Trust / Spring 2008 1 Tr us t The Pew Charitable Trusts VOLUME 11 NUMBER 1 SPRING 2008 Fueling Victory 2 During last year’s policy debate on fuel Trust economy, the Pew Campaign for Fuel Efficiency helped the public’s voice get Published three times a year by more miles to the gallon. The Pew Charitable Trusts © 2008 The Pew Charitable Trusts Deep Green ISSN: 1540-4587 9 The National Environmental Trust merges with the Pew Environment The Board of Group to create an even more effec - The Pew Charitable Trusts tive advocacy organization. Robert H. Campbell Susan W. Catherwood Gloria Twine Chisum Many Happy Returns Aristides W. Georgantas 12 J. Howard Pew II The nonpartisan electionline.org tracks J.N. Pew IV, M.D. problems and changes in the voting Mary Catharine Pew, M.D. process and recommends improvements. R. Anderson Pew Sandy Ford Pew Rebecca W. Rimel Promises, Promises Robert G. Williams 19 Ethel Benson Wister Will the 50 states and the City of Philadelphia be able to meet growing President and CEO costs of pensions and retirement benefits? Rebecca W. Rimel Two studies raise flags. Managing Director of Communications Deborah L. Hayes Departments The Pew Charitable Trusts serves the public interest by providing information, advanc - Editor NOTES FROM THE PRESIDENT Inside ing policy solutions and supporting civic Marshall A. Ledger front life. Based in Philadelphia, with an office Open roads. cover in Washington, D.C., the Trusts will invest $283 million in fiscal year 2008 to provide Senior Writer organizations and citizens with fact- Sandra Salmans based research and practical solutions LESSONS LEARNED for challenging issues. Editorial Assistants Boreal forest campaign. The Trusts, an independent nonprofit, is Colleen A. Miller 23 the sole beneficiary of seven individual Renee S. Wagoner charitable funds established between 1948 and 1979 by two sons and two daughters of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew One Commerce Square PROGRAM INVESTMENTS and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew. 2005 Market Street, Ste. 1700 The official registration and financial Philadelphia, PA 19103-7077 26 information of The Pew Charitable Trusts Phone 215.575.9050 may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll-free, within Pennsylvania, 1.800.732.0999. On the Internet: BRIEFINGS Registration does not imply endorsement. www.pewtrusts.org Prison population, founding fathers’ writings, what makes a great exhibi - 30 Design/Art Direction tion?, Kohut in The New York Times Lewis & Nobel Design online, English Short-Title Catalogue , making historic house museums relevant and solvent. Cover art: Hayes Valley Traffic by Rob Cox. Oil on Canvas, 2008, 20 x 16 inches. Detail. 2 Trust / Spring 2008 Hayes Valley Traffic by Rob Cox. Oil on Canvas, 2008, 20 x 16 inches. Trust / Spring 2008 3 The Pew Campaign for Fuel Efficiency’s successful drive helped raise fuel economy standards for the first time in more than three decades. By Colin Woodard hen it comes to petroleum, the United States is in a bind. WThe substance accounts for 40 percent of the nation’s energy supply—and powers 97 percent of its transportation—yet only 3 percent of world reserves are within its borders, and the country is vulnerable to anything that might disturb the flow from elsewhere. Seventy percent of U.S. oil con - sumption goes to the trans portation sector, where it is consumed less efficiently than peer nations: Aver - age automotive fuel economy is 35 percent lower than in the European Union and 48 percent below Japan’s, with menacing effects to both climate and the environment. The United States is a nation that, in President George W. Bush’s words, “is addicted to oil.” But last December, the nation took an important step in treating that addic tion when Congress passed an energy bill, which Bush promptly signed, that raises automobile fuel efficiency standards to 35 miles per gallon by 2020. The measure, the first congressionally mandated increase in federal fuel economy standards in 32 years, 4 Trust / Spring 2008 is a boon for the economy, security economy: corporate CEOs, retired and the environment. By 2020 it will senior military officers, religious save an estimated 1.1 million barrels leaders and consumer advocates. “We of oil a day, $23 billion in annual con - collectively saw a window of op portu - sumer fuel costs and 190 million metric nity,” says Kevin Curtis, who was then tons of greenhouse gas emissions each at the National Environmental Trust, year, or as much as forty coal plants.
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