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Adam James

Special Assistant

Adam James is a Special Assistant for Energy Policy at American Progress, where he works on CAP's clean energy and climate advocacy campaign. Specifically, Adam will be working on domestic clean energy financing and international climate policy.

In the fall of 2010, Adam interned at CAP, providing research support for the Energy team, as well as writing blog posts for CAPAF’s ClimateProgress.org. Later, Adam conducted research for the second edition of the book Environmental Pragmatism, which incorporates a wide variety of frameworks and techniques to deal with environmental problems.

Adam received his B.A in philosophy from George Mason University, where his work focused on environmental ethics.