Joseph Romm

former Energy Department official

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Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he oversees their ClimateProgress blog; former official in the Energy Department (1995-1998); author of Hell and High Water: Global Warming: The Solution and the Politics

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Responding to rising gasoline prices,  President Bush  and candidate  John McCain  are calling on Congress to end the moratorium on drilling for oil off-shore.

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