Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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New Kaiser poll reveals voter priorities
These answers are from a new Kaiser Foundation poll: —– What do you think is the most important problem for the president and Congress to address? Is there another problem you think is almost as important? (open-ended) Issue Rank Total Republicans Democrats Independents 1 Iraq (54%) Iraq (53%) Iraq (62%) Iraq (52%) 2 Health care […]
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Big Coal slimes Kansas governor Sebelius
The fossil fuel lobby is panicking. Kansas was recently the site of a bold repudiation of coal — Roderick L. Bremby, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, established a new precedent by denying a coal plant permit on the basis of CO2, with the full backing of Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius. Look […]
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‘Clean coal’ proposals are getting canceled right and left
Remember clean coal, vaunted savior of, um, coal? Turns out cost, unproven technology, and rising opposition to carbon emissions are conspiring to nip a lot of clean coal projects in the bud. This, of course, is just the latest piece of evidence that coal can’t hack it in a carbon-constrained market needs more subsidies.
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Sparks fly when the mayors meet the Congressfolk
The last event at this weekend’s mayors conference was a field hearing by the House global warming committee. The witnesses were: Mayor Bloomberg, City of New York Mayor Diaz, City of Miami, Florida Mayor Nickels, City of Seattle, Washington Mayor Palmer, City of Trenton, New Jersey Committee hearings tend to be pretty staid affairs, but […]
