Romm  

Dr. Joseph Romm is a leading expert on clean energy technologies. He is author of the report The Car and Fuel of the Future: A Technology and Policy Overview, for the National Commission on Energy Policy (July 2004), and of The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate. Romm was principal investigator for the National Science Foundation project, "Future Directions for Hydrogen Energy Research and Education." From 1995 through 1998, he served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, where he helped manage a $1 billion program for working with businesses to develop and use advanced transportation and clean energy technologies. Romm is executive director and founder of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, which helps businesses and states adopt high-leverage strategies for saving energy and cutting pollution. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T.

 
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