Articles by Joseph Romm
Joseph Romm is the editor of Climate Progress and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
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Did Time's Bryan Walsh cut-and-paste a faulty critique of Obama’s clean energy efforts?
Exhibit 1, from an SF Chronicle op-ed by the disinformers of The Breakthrough Institute, published July 27: China alone is reportedly investing $440 billion to $660 billion in its clean-energy industries over 10 years. South Korea is investing a full 2 percent of its gross domestic product in a Green New Deal. And Japan is […]
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GOP Lobbyist: ‘As an article of Faith,’ it is ‘pretentious’ to believe in global warming
In April, Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) said he knows with 100% certainty that humans can’t cause devastating sea level rise because God said in the Bible he would “never again” devastate humans with a flood again (see Rep. Shimkus: “Man will not destroy this Earth. This Earth will not be destroyed by a flood.” Rep. […]
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What’s in a name? For the slimehead and toothfish, a makeover leads to rampant overfishing
“If the slimehead were still a slimehead, it wouldn’t be in this kind of trouble,” begins a good WashPost story today on overfishing of the Orange roughy and other fish with popular nom de plumes. As lakes and oceans have been depleted by heavy fishing, the seafood industry tried to dress up what was left […]
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The only way to win the clean energy race is to pass the clean energy bill
Some 1970s-era liberals and old-school enviros think massive government spending is the only way to achieve the clean energy transition. They could not be more wrong, as a particularly uninformed post by the otherwise cutting-edge Grist online magazine makes clear. As a climate bill, Waxman-Markey is at best a B-, but as a clean energy […]
