Joe Romm

Missing the SuperFreaking Point (and Ignoring the Business Case for Green)

Andrew Winston | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green


Andrew Winston

The authors of SuperFreakonomics fail to mention that the process of shifting to a low-carbon economy has enormous upsides completely aside from the benefits to climate balance.

Joe Romm's Strategy to Lose the Clean Energy Race

Jesse Jenkins | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green


Jesse Jenkins

On Monday, Joe Romm of Climate Progress publicly attacked us for publishing an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle called "Will America lose the clean energy race?"

DoE's Chu Wants to Gut Long-Term/Long-Range Fuel Cell Vehicles Program in Favor of Short-Term/Short-Range Plug-In Hybrids

Peter Hoffmann | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green


Peter Hoffmann

American car makers and the government didn't take the Japanese seriously with their funny little, cheap-to-run, quality cars. Ditto with the Koreans, Toyota and Honda.

Joe Barton Begins "Guerrilla Warfare" On Climate Bill

The Washington Independent | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics


The markup session for the landmark Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill is underway in the House Energy and Commerce Committee (live webcast from C-...

Energy Boon or Dirty Boondoggle: Which Would You Choose?

Ben Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green


Ben Carmichael

In instances of collective forecasts, consensus is rare. Opinions diverge, camps form and passions run hot. How can we avoid a decline in oil production from being disruptive?

NOVA's "The Big Energy Gamble": The Challenge of Climate Narratives

Ben Carmichael | Posted 02.28.2009 | Green


Ben Carmichael

This is the problem of narrating climate change: it lacks the natural elements that make for a gripping story. Our earth's climate is a reality unfit for reality TV.

What Pickens Has Right, What He Has Wrong

ClimateProgress | Posted 08.05.2008 | Green


Everybody's been talking Pickens lately, but ClimateProgress gets down and dirty. For some of the most complete analysis of the "Pickens Plan," read o...