About Teryn
Teryn Norris is a leading young energy policy analyst and strategist. Currently a public policy major at Stanford University and Director of Americans for Energy Leadership, he has developed and advanced clean energy policy at the federal and state level, and his writing has appeared in the Harvard Law & Policy Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, Yale Environment 360, Huffington Post, and other publications. As a former Project Director at the Breakthrough Institute, he supported successful advocacy to achieve a $150 billion clean energy investment platform for Barack Obama's presidential campaign and co-authored the National Energy Education Act proposal, which helped create the Obama administration's RE-ENERGYSE initiative. He is co-author of several policy reports, including the widely acclaimed “Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant,” and his work has been featured by the New York Times, WhiteHouse.gov, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Financial Times, Newsweek, CNN, CNBC, BusinessWeek, Fortune Magazine, and other media outlets. He is founder of Breakthrough Generation, the young leaders initiative of the Breakthrough Institute, and he co-directed its fellowship program in 2008 and 2009 to train a group of the nation’s leading college and graduate students. Before joining the Breakthrough Institute and transferring to Stanford, Teryn worked with Environment California to advance the California Global Warming Solutions Act. He served as president of his class at Johns Hopkins, where he led a successful student campaign to achieve a university-wide climate initiative, and he served on the Johns Hopkins President's Task Force on Climate Change. Contact: Email and Twitter
[Transcript of "official" Hilton campaign speech] “Okay so here’s my energy policy. Barack wants to focus on new technologies to cut foreign oil dependency, and McCain wants offshore drilling. Well why don’t we do a hybrid of both candidates’ ideas? We can do limited offshore drilling, with strict environmental oversight, while creating tax incentives to get Detroit making hybrid and electric cars. That way the offshore drilling carries us until the new technologies kick in which will then create new jobs and energy independence.
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No Paris! Not you too! How is it that removing the multi-decades ban on off-shore drilling in the U.S. has now become Paris Hilton’s “compromise” position? Whew.