Stories by Joseph Romm
Posted on Dec 28, 2010, Source: Climate Progress
Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX), an "unconditional champion of fossil fuels," kicks off the witch hunt.
Posted on Apr 26, 2010, Source: Climate Progress
Apparently the Washington Post doesn't think that preserving the health and well-being of countless future generations is 'hot-button' enough for the media.
Posted on Apr 19, 2010, Source: Climate Progress
Come hear everyone from James Hansen to James Cameron, from Sting to me. Let's show the Tea Partiers what a real crowd looks like.
Posted on Jan 27, 2010, Source: Climate Progress
Palin has chosen to use her Facebook page -- a medium devoid of critics -- to further push her "Drill Baby, Drill!" ideology. Why are we not surprised?
Posted on Nov 18, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
The overall plan is much more ambitious in scope and depth than anticipated.
Posted on Sep 8, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
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 Aug 17, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
It looks like they're borrowing some plays from the health care reform astroturfers.
Posted on Aug 13, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
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 8, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
Both are impervious to the evidence and both get their disinformation from the same right-wing sources.
Posted on May 22, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
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 18, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
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 12, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
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 11, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
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 Apr 22, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves. It's time to dump Earth Day.
Posted on Mar 21, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
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 10, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
As Thomas Friedman agrees in the next article, we have constructed the grandest of Ponzi schemes by living off future generations.
Posted on Feb 19, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
It is incumbent on progressives to propose a realistic alternative to new coal plants -- here's our best options.
Posted on Feb 13, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
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 11, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
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
The same budget gimmicks that got us into the credit mess are creeping into the stimulus.
Posted on Feb 2, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
Australia is the canary in the coal mine for climate-driven desertification.
Posted on Jan 26, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
In a rousing speech Obama makes it clear that "no single issue is as fundamental to our future as energy."
Posted on Jan 8, 2009, Source: Climate Progress
Obama's speech lays out some bold energy plans. Here's the highlights and the speech itself.
Posted on Dec 18, 2008, Source: Climate Progress
A new report from the USGS (i.e. the Bush administration!) is a stunner.
Posted on Dec 15, 2008, Source: Climate Progress
Most importantly his "views on climate change would be among the most forceful ever held by a cabinet member."
Posted on Nov 13, 2008, Source: Climate Progress
Unfortunately it is a classic case of "climate feedback" as desal plants cause more emissions and ocean acidification.
Posted on Nov 12, 2008, Source: Climate Progress
Detroit has been lobbying against the future of all Americans who want to end our oil addiction.
Posted on Oct 29, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
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 Sep 22, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
A big blunder by Congressional Dems on the energy bill has resulted in a huge triumph for McCain.
Posted on Aug 29, 2008, Source: Climate Progress
Definitely not a VP choice for anyone wanting to win environmental voters.
Posted on Aug 26, 2008, Source: Climate Progress
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 22, 2008, Source: Climate Progress
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 18, 2008, Source: Climate Progress
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 5, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
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 Apr 10, 2008, Source: Climate Progress
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 Jun 27, 2000, Source: Grist.org
The Internet is producing more than a business revolution -- it is also generating enormous environmental benefits.