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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The Al Gore way
It's called moral leadership. Maybe you remember it from last century.
Sir Richard said his new commitment grew out of a visit to his London home a few months ago by former Vice President Al Gore ...
"You are in a position maybe to make a difference," Sir Richard said Mr. Gore told him. "If you can make a giant step forward other people will follow."Update [2006-9-22 9:59:46 by David Roberts]: ThinkProgress has footage of Gore and Branson discussing the issue on ABC.
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NYC will get sustainability commission
So, as forecast in this earlier post, NYC Mayor Bloomberg this afternoon announced some big sustainability stuff. Read about the details on StreetsBlog.
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It’s rampant
The ethical abyss at the Department of Interior has been much in the news lately, with the dept's Inspector General testifying to Congress that "short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior."
Now the NYT reports that Interior's own investigators are in open rebellion; in a series of lawsuits, they "contend that they were blocked by their bosses from pursuing more than $30 million in fraudulent underpayments of royalties for oil produced in publicly owned waters in the Gulf of Mexico." Political sops to oil companies? Say it ain't so!
In a set of follow-up posts, the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) blog offers links to many of the lawsuit documents and complaints (see also here).
What a mess.
