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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EIA projects wind at 5% of U.S. electricity in 2012, all renewables at 14%, thanks to Obama stimulus
The renewables safe sources of energy that never run out are coming! And if it was braggin’ time for wind when wind power hit 1.25% of U.S. electricity generation in 2008, what’ll it be in 2012, when it hits 5%, as projected by the Energy Information Administration? Well, it’s probably time for a tougher renewable […]
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Nobelist Krugman strongly endorses Waxman-Markey
The man who is arguably the most credible progressive expert on economics has begun to seriously weigh in on the clean energy and global warming bill (see Krugman: Climate action “now might actually help the economy recover from its current slump” by giving “businesses a reason to invest in new equipment and facilities”). In today’s […]
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Breaking: Obama to raise new car fuel efficiency standard to 39 mpg by 2016
UPDATE: The NYT story is not entirely accurate, and, separately, sources tell me there appears to be a little confusion as to exactly what mpg standard is set for what class of vehicles (see below). UPDATE2: The numbers appear to be 39 mpg for cars, 30 mpg for light trucks (see here). For all those […]
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A summary of the climate bill
Let me start by warning/notifying readers that this week will see a lot of posts about Waxman-Markey. The name of this blog is Climate Progress — and I so rarely get to blog on actual climate progress! This is, after all, the first bill to require reductions in global warming pollution ever considered by a […]
