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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An interview with California environmental adviser Terry Tamminen
Terry Tamminen is a compact, affable man. With his bluntness and lack of pretense, it’s easy to see why Arnold Schwarzenegger trusted him. The California governor brought Tamminen on as his environmental adviser in 2003, elevated him to secretary of the state EPA, and then appointed him a senior cabinet adviser in 2004. In part […]
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The Salt Lake City mayor is doing amazing green things
I just got done with a long and interesting conversation with Salt Lake City’s hard-charging mayor, Rocky Anderson. If you haven’t been following the guy, check out this remarkable article in The Nation. Prepare to have your accustomed-to-bad-news socks knocked off. Since his election in 1999, he’s implemented a comprehensive plan to green the city […]
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It’s all about energy, again
The Financial Times reports that Bush will make energy a central theme of his State of the Union speech. The Bushies are consciously hyping it: Al Hubbard, chairman of the National Economic Council, who is co-ordinating White House energy policy, has also raised expectations. In a speech at De Pauw University he predicted "headlines above […]
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No
As international attention focuses on Iran, everyone’s shared assumption is that it’s a huge and rising danger, thanks to [cue ominous music] the power of oil. And indeed, with so much oil, why would it need to build nuclear power plants? Clearly those are for weapons. Fear Iran! Nay, invade it, quick, before it eats […]
