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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WSJ front-page shocker: U.S. Foresees a Thinner Cushion of Coal"
Okay, it isn’t a shock to long-time readers that the US Geological Survey sharply scaled back projections of economically-recoverable US coal (see “Are we approaching peak coal? Part 1” and “Part 2“). As I reported in January, the USGS concluded: The coal reserves estimate for the Gillette coalfield is 10.1 billion short tons of coal […]
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Washington Post launches attack on clean energy and climate bill for promoting building efficiency
Memo to Washington Post: Please, please trade editor Fred Hiatt to the Wall Street Journal editorial page where his penchant for allowing unfact-checked crap into the paper – and for writing it himself – would no longer hurt the reputation of a (once) great newspaper. There are lots of reasons for progressives and the progressive […]
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Everything you wanted to know about Waxman-Markey allocations
UPDATE: At the end, I’m going to respond to what has now become a widespread myth that because Waxman-Markey supposedly mutes the electric price signal to consumers, it hurts the cause of energy efficiency. The Subcommittee on Energy and Environment will hold a hearing titled, “Allowance Allocation Policies in Climate Legislation: Assisting Consumers, Investing in […]
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Anti-science conservatives are stuck in denial; for climate science activists, the reverse is true
The five stages of grief describes “a process by which people allegedly deal with grief and tragedy, especially when diagnosed with a terminal illness or catastrophic loss,” as Wikipedia puts it: 1. Denial 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance l have been meaning to blog on this since I heard a very brilliant […]
