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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NASA’s James Hansen arrested in protest on mountaintop removal
Two years ago, the nation’s top climate scientist wrote, “It seems to me that, as yet, it is difficult to use actions of our government as grounds for civil disobedience, however egregiously stupid those actions are” (see Hansen on “civil disobedience”). But like all of us, his positions have evolved over time. Author Jeff Biggers […]
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Obama on ACES: “I believe that this legislation is extraordinarily important for our country.”
This week, the House of Representatives is moving ahead on historic legislation that will transform the way we produce and use energy in America. This legislation will spark a clean energy transformation that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and confront the carbon pollution that threatens our planet. So said President Obama in the […]
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Shame on the New York Times for running ExxonMobil’s greenwashing ad once again
If I may paraphrase Sir Thomas More in the masterful A Man for All Seasons: It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the world. But for ExxonMobil? The NYT apparently thinks that the way to preserve its declining fortunes is by selling (what’s left of) its soul to ExxonMobil. As you can […]
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House Dems release 1,201-page climate bill with floor debate scheduled for Friday
In the whipsawing environment that is the House of Representatives, the vote for Waxman-Markey is back on for this week, scheduled for Friday. My sources put the odds of an actual vote at 70-30. The updated American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) is here (a big PDF). E&E News (subs. req’d) reports: House Democratic leaders […]
