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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Green investment does create jobs
Robert Pollin has issued a direct rebuttal, “Green Investments and Jobs,” to the Heritage Foundation’s lame “debunking” of Green Recovery, a study Pollin co-authored for the the Center for American Progress. My line-by-line response to the disanalysis by Heritage’s Donald Kreutzer is here. Pollin, co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at U. Mass-Amherst, concludes: […]
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IEA: Oil price to rebound to $100 when economy recovers, then soar to $200 by 2030
The staid International Energy Agency is poised to bring a note of sanity back to the oil discussion next week, according to the Financial Times: Oil prices will rebound to more than $100 a barrel as soon as the world economy recovers, and will exceed $200 by 2030, the International Energy Agency will say in […]
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Three key energy and climate questions and why conservatives just don’t get why they lost, part 1
Obama ran on clear and detailed energy and climate plans. The election poses three over-arching questions: On solutions: Does Obama have a clear mandate to enact his plans to transform our energy and climate policy? On science: Will the transformation he is actually able to enact be sufficient to avert the worst climate impacts (and, […]
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The ‘historic’ 2008 election drinking game
Of all the drinking games I have ever proposed (Note to self: Do I have a drinking game problem? Nah, I can quit anytime), the one for election day coverage this year is certainly the most likely to leave you unconscious on the floor for the longest period of time: Take one shot every time […]
