Brad Johnson

Brad Johnson is the editor of Hill Heat, a climate politics and policy website. Previously Brad was the Campaign Manager for Forecast the Facts, a grassroots climate advocacy organization, and Editor for ThinkProgress Green at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Brad holds a bachelor’s degree in math and physics from Amherst College and master’s degree in geosciences from the Massachusetts Institute for Technology. He is the co-author of Technomanifestos and the founder of HillHeat.com.

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House committee votes to deny climate change

On March 15, 2011, Republicans in the House energy committee voted not once (archived), not twice, but three times (archived), against amendments (archived) recognizing that climate change is real, despite the broad scientific consensus that ” climate change is happening (archived) and human beings are a major reason for it.” They then unanimously voted (archived) in favor of the Upton-Inhofe bill to repeal the EPA’s scientific endangerment finding on greenhouse pollution.

Source: Grist (2011) Read More

GOP Budget Amendments Would Destroy Health, Economy, Planet

Brad Johnson is a climate researcher-blogger at the Center for American Progress Action Fund . He blogs at the ThinkProgress Wonk Room on the climate crisis, energy policy and building a green economy.

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What The Frack? Gas Industry’s Multimillion-Dollar Campaign Demonizes Hydraulic Fracturing Bill

As opposition mounted, gas companies launched multimillion-dollar public relations campaigns promoting shale as economic salvation and energy independence. Slick ads and sponsored studies emphasized jobs and lower prices. Critics countered with air samples and water tests. The messaging battle revealed a deeper reality: billions were at stake, and public perception mattered almost as much as geology.

Source: The Wonk Room (2009) Read More

Climate Zombies Now Run The House

Giant new oil and gas wells that require astonishing volumes of water to fracture bedrock threaten America’s fragile aquifers.

Source: The Wonk Room (2011) Read More