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Brad Johnson’s Biography

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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.co…

Brad Johnson’s Journalist Portfolio

What’s Wrong With Obama’s Clean Power Plan?

What’s Wrong With Obama’s Clean Power Plan?

The modest accomplishments for climate and environmental justice in the Clean Power Plan will have little mea…

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'Energy Independence' Will Destroy the Planet

'Energy Independence' Will Destroy the Planet

We are now entering a new era of climate schizophrenia, with energy policy that accelerates climate change ce…

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How One GOP-Controlled Committee Is Waging A War On Science

How One GOP-Controlled Committee Is Waging A War On Science

At a March 26 hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Republican congressmen t…

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Wally's World

Wally's World

On Aug. 8, 1975, geoscientist Wallace Smith Broecker published " Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global W…

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Scientific Society Objects to Investigation of Its Anti-Science Members

Scientific Society Objects to Investigation of Its Anti-Science Members

The American Meteorological Society's executive director, Keith Seitter, has condemned a Congressional invest…

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BP's Secret Army Of Oil Disaster Contractors

BP's Secret Army Of Oil Disaster Contractors

The true story of the BP disaster is how private contractors, not the government, are handling the response. …

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Articles

Al is the Grassroots Conservative Choice for Montana

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By Brad Johnson
| Flathead Beacon Verified
I am proud to endorse Dr. Al Olszewski for Congress. I was proud to support Al in 2020 and again in 2022, and I am proud to support him again now because he is the grassroots conservative choice for Western Montana. Al is a veteran, a physician, and a former state legislator with an extensive public voting record in the Montana House and Senate. He does not just talk like a conservative when it is convenient. He has a real record to prove it.
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A Republican Party member's disappointment in Daines

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By Brad Johnson
| The Western News Verified
I have known Steve Daines since he was a junior in high school and I could not be more disappointed in what he has become. I remember a very different Steve Daines. Back when he was president of the College Republicans at Montana State University, I watched him organize a dorm voter registration drive. It was energetic, effective, and genuinely grassroots. Looking back, it may have been the last truly selfless political act of his career. Somewhere along the way, Steve changed.
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I knew Sen. Steve Daines before the swamp did

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By Brad Johnson
| Daily Inter Lake Verified
I have known U.S. Sen. Steve Daines since he was a junior in high school, and I could not be more disappointed in what he has become. I remember a very different Steve Daines. Back when he was president of the College Republicans at Montana State University, I watched him organize a dorm voter registration drive. It was energetic, effective, and genuinely grassroots. Looking back, it may have been the last truly selfless political act of his career. Somewhere along the way, Steve changed.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Tweetdeck, Ruby on Rails.

Why did you become a journalist?

Our democracy can't function without an informed citizenry; and the story of climate change is too often mistold.