{"id":523918,"date":"2010-04-12T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81845"},"modified":"2010-04-12T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:00:06","slug":"10-joe-romm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523918","title":{"rendered":"10. Joe Romm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"uafg\" title=\"Time magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/0,28757,1924149,00.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-81847\" title=\"romm\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/romm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"193\" \/>Time magazine<\/a> called Romm, editor of <a id=\"e-ou\" title=\"Climate Progress\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/\">Climate  Progress<\/a>, &#8220;the Web&#8217;s most influential climate change blogger.&#8221; He  has past served as a key force to rally progressives behind Democratic  proposals. When the House last month approved a clean energy and climate  bill, <a id=\"pruo\" title=\"Romm urged readers\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2009\/05\/21\/waxman-markey-approved-house-energy-and-commerce-committe\/\">Romm offered readers<\/a> a reason  why to support the bill, even if they didn&#8217;t believe it did enough to  address climate change: &#8220;Many people have asked me how I can reconcile  my climate science realism, which demands far stronger action than the  Waxman-Markey bill requires, and my climate politics realism, which has  led me to strongly advocate passage of this flawed bill.&#8221; Legions of  followers will soon be looking to Romm, a former assistant Secretary of  Energy and a current Center for American Progress senior fellow, to  parse the upcoming legislation as well as to make them comfortable with  its flaws.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/81846\/9-william-kovacs\">Next: 9. William Kovacs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time magazine called Romm, editor of Climate Progress, &#8220;the Web&#8217;s most influential climate change blogger.&#8221; He has past served as a key force to rally progressives behind Democratic proposals. When the House last month approved a clean energy and climate bill, Romm offered readers a reason why to support the bill, even if they didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}