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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Judge Sonia Sotomayor on energy & environment
President Obama has chosen federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. The African American Environmentalist Association has an extended discussion of her energy and environmental views, reprinted below: Judge Sonia Sotomayor [above] wrote an opinion in Riverkeeper v. EPA, 475 F.3d 83 (2d Cir. 2007), that the EPA was not permitted to engage […]
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Duke Energy: We can ‘decarbonize’ without painful electricity price hikes
Major coal utilities are now publicly endorsing electricity decarbonization, an all but unimaginable position even 12 months ago. And although Duke is a member of USCAP, which was the basis of Waxman-Markey, it remains remarkable that the company has joined the call for strong climate action (see How does Duke CEO Jim Rogers sleep at […]
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Toles on GOP global warming denial
And a shout out to Toles for his shout out to Dust-Bowlification (see “NOAA stunner: SW faces permanent Dust Bowls” and “Climate change drives SW Dust Bowl sooner than expected“).
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Memorial Day, 2029
The two worst direct impacts to humans from our unsustainable use of energy will, I think, be Dust-Bowlification and sea level rise, Hell and High Water. But another impact — far more difficult to project quantitatively because there is no paleoclimate analog — may well affect far more people both directly and indirectly than either […]
