About the Author

Joseph Romm is the founder and executive director of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions and a fellow at the Center for American Progress. Under President Clinton he was acting assistant secretary at the Department of Energy, heading the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The author of the award-winning The Hype About Hydrogen, he holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT and lives in Washington, D.C.

Reviews

"Urgent, reasoned, and informative ... America had better listen up--this may be our last chance to stop global warming." -- James Hansen, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies