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Articles by Joseph Romm
The Deadly Connection Between AI Data Centers and PFAS
The Trump-AI-fossil-fuel industrial complex is aimed at unrestricted data center growth, no matter the costs. And the costs are many—including a new generation of forever chemicals now being unleashed on the public.
Another AI Dirty Secret: How the Data Center in Your Backyard Is Being Supported by the World’s Largest Petrochemical Companies
The list of members of the AI Infrastructure Coalition, the group spearheading the industry counteroffensive to public opposition to data centers, may surprise you. It’s not just tech giants, like Meta and Google; it’s also some of the largest fossil fuel companies in the world.
Trump’s Oil and Gaslighting Playbook, Hat Tip to Taylor Swift
With a new report from the Department of Energy, the Trump administration is singing the same old song—denying the reality of human-caused climate change—that the fossil fuel industry has been singing for over half a century.
Unchecked Global Warming Would Ruin New York. EPA Chief and Would-Be Governor Lee Zeldin Does Not Care.
Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA Administrator, who aspires to be governor of New York, is doing everything he can in his new job to speed up global warming, which will devastate the state that he—and I—were born and raised in.
“Elon Ate My Cat”: A Reformed Musk Fanboy on Tesla’s Plunging Car Sales
Tesla sales are crashing in the biggest electric vehicle markets—California, Europe, and China—even as non-Tesla EV sales are growing steadily, and Chinese EV sales are in overdrive.
“Protect What We Love”: At the Katrina Super Bowl, the First Ever Climate Ad Plea for Immediate Action
The first ever Super Bowl ad making a plea for immediate climate action will be seen by millions on February 9. It airs as America’s newly elected President Trump has been stuffing his cabinet with science deniers and reversing every federal effort to reduce the carbon pollution that drives ever-worsening climate disasters.
What Fathers Owe Their Children
If you are a parent with a Gen Z teen, then you know climate change matters a lot to them. As it should, since they are the ones who will have to live with the ever-worsening consequences of our inaction. So, what will you tell your children you are doing to stop this slow-motion train wreck?
For Better School Indoor Air Quality, CO2 Monitors Offer an Easy Solution
The biggest air pollution threat to our children—and our teachers—is the chronic exposure to bad air they get over the academic year in old and poorly ventilated school buildings. One low-cost solution: a CO2 monitor in every classroom.
Taylor Swift Can Be the Climate Hero We Need Now
Taylor Swift has described climate change as one of the “horrific situations that we find ourselves facing right now.” Here are three steps we’d like to see her take to raise the urgency of the climate issue.