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Stories by Joseph Romm

World's Biggest Polluters Strike a Deal: U.S. and China Agree to Comprehensive Clean Energy and Climate Plan

The overall plan is much more ambitious in scope and depth than anticipated.
Posted on Nov 18, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

What's Next After Taking Out Van Jones? Fox News Blurts Out Agenda to Sabotage the Environment

The job destroyers and climate destroyers of the right wing most certainly smell blood -- and what they want to do is no joke.
Posted on Sep 8, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

Leaked Memo: Big Oil Planning Bogus 'Energy Citizen' Rallies to Oppose Clean Energy Legislation

It looks like they're borrowing some plays from the health care reform astroturfers.
Posted on Aug 17, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

NYT: Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security

Intelligence analysts say that we'll need our military to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics.
Posted on Aug 13, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

Top 5 Ways the 'Birthers' Are Like the Global Warming Deniers

Both are impervious to the evidence and both get their disinformation from the same right-wing sources.
Posted on Aug 8, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

Clean Energy Bill Survives: Political Realists Rejoice, Climate Science Realists Demand More

Now the next challenge: how to stop this bill from being weakened as it winds itself through the House and the Senate.
Posted on May 22, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

Obama to Raise Fuel Efficiency Standards: Biggest Step Gov Has Taken to Fight CO2

It looks like the Waxman-Markey bill is not the alpha and the omega of energy policy -- this is big news, too.
Posted on May 18, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?

Finally someone is listening to Lester Brown and his warnings of a collapse in our food supplies, as a new article reveals in Scientific American.
Posted on May 12, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

Has Anyone in U.S. History Made More Americans Less Safe Than Dick Cheney?

One could write an entire book on Cheney's single-handed efforts to destroy a livable climate for the next 50 generations of Americans.
Posted on May 11, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

On Earth Day, Forget About the Planet -- We're the Ones Who Are Screwed

Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves. It's time to dump Earth Day.
Posted on Apr 22, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

Why Do Conservatives Hate Your Children?

A look at conservatives' willful effort to destroy the health and well-being of your children and grandchildren and the next 50 generations.
Posted on Mar 21, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

Why the Global Economy Is a Ponzi Scheme and We Are All Bernie Madoffs

As Thomas Friedman agrees in the next article, we have constructed the grandest of Ponzi schemes by living off future generations.
Posted on Mar 10, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

Obama Must Stop Dirty Coal -- But What Will He Replace it With?

It is incumbent on progressives to propose a realistic alternative to new coal plants -- here's our best options.
Posted on Feb 19, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

What's Green About the New Stimulus Deal?

There's lots of good news -- from a tax credit for renewables to the $50 billion nuclear industry giveaway being axed. Here's the highlights.
Posted on Feb 13, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

Stephen Chu: "We're Looking at a Scenario Where There's No More Agriculture in California"

Eight years of disinformation and muzzling U.S. climate scientists has left the public largely unaware of the catastrophes ahead.
Posted on Feb 11, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

How Did $50B Worth of High-Risk, Job-Killing Nuclear Loans Get into the Stimulus?

The same budget gimmicks that got us into the credit mess are creeping into the stimulus.
Posted on Feb 11, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

Australia Faces Collapse as Climate Change Kicks in: Are the Southwest and California Next?

Australia is the canary in the coal mine for climate-driven desertification.
Posted on Feb 2, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

Must-read Obama Speech Warns of "Irreversible Catastrophe" from Climate Change

In a rousing speech Obama makes it clear that "no single issue is as fundamental to our future as energy."
Posted on Jan 26, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

Obama: "We Will Double the Production of Alternative Energy in the Next Three Years"

Obama's speech lays out some bold energy plans. Here's the highlights and the speech itself.
Posted on Jan 8, 2009, Source: Climate Progress

Global Warming's US Impacts and "Permanent Drying" in the Southwest

A new report from the USGS (i.e. the Bush administration!) is a stunner.
Posted on Dec 18, 2008, Source: Climate Progress

Top 5 Reasons Steven Chu is a Great Energy Pick

Most importantly his "views on climate change would be among the most forceful ever held by a cabinet member."
Posted on Dec 15, 2008, Source: Climate Progress

Is Australia Making Its Drought Worse by Turning to Desalination Plants for Water?

Unfortunately it is a classic case of "climate feedback" as desal plants cause more emissions and ocean acidification.
Posted on Nov 13, 2008, Source: Climate Progress

Why Bail Out the Car Companies When They Bailed Out on Us?

Detroit has been lobbying against the future of all Americans who want to end our oil addiction.
Posted on Nov 12, 2008, Source: Climate Progress

Palin: McCain Won't Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Sarah Palin just helped clarify McCain's double-talk on global warming: He doesn't think the government should do anything to stop it.
Posted on Oct 29, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

Hill Dems Blow It for Obama with Energy Bill

A big blunder by Congressional Dems on the energy bill has resulted in a huge triumph for McCain.
Posted on Sep 22, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

Palin Is a Global-Warming-Denying, Polar-Bear-Dissing, Pat Buchanan Acolyte

Definitely not a VP choice for anyone wanting to win environmental voters.
Posted on Aug 29, 2008, Source: Climate Progress

Why Biden Is Such an Important Pick for the Climate

The Dems now have someone who gets global warming and who is one of the most qualified people be a global leader.
Posted on Aug 26, 2008, Source: Climate Progress

What is the Carbon Footprint of McCain's Countless Homes?

If McCain can't even keep count of the number of homes he has, you can bet he has no idea on their environmental impact.
Posted on Aug 22, 2008, Source: Climate Progress

Did McCain Just Lose Colorado?

McCain might have just lost Colorado after saying he wanted to renegotiate a 1922 water deal and take water from Colorado and New Mexico.
Posted on Aug 18, 2008, Source: Climate Progress

Obama Gets High Marks for New Energy Plan

This is the best energy plan ever put forward by a nominee, especially in comparison to the plan by John "Nothing but Nukes" McCain.
Posted on Aug 5, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

Peak Oil Is a Problem We Can Solve Now

The peak oil problem will not "destroy suburbia" or the American way of life. Only unrestrained emissions of greenhouse gases can do that.
Posted on Apr 10, 2008, Source: Climate Progress

Internet Boosting Energy Efficiency

The Internet is producing more than a business revolution -- it is also generating enormous environmental benefits.
Posted on Jun 27, 2000, Source: Grist.org