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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  • As Keystone XL victory looms, a ‘top enviro’ games out how to lose

    Some guys just don’t know how to win gracefully.Over at Rolling Stone, Jeff Goodell has a piece gaming out scenarios for the Keystone XL pipeline. It’s worth a read. Just to briefly recap: There was a cut in payroll taxes. It was set to expire at the end of the year, thus raising taxes on […]

    David Roberts Energy

  • 11 from ’11: The most-clicked Grist stories of the year

    Can’t … resist … clicking …Photo: Lindsey TurnerWe’ve had a few year-end lists here at Grist. Here are our choices for top stories of the year, top cities stories of the year, and top food stories of the year. But what about you, the great unwashed masses, surfing the great unwashed interwebs? What are your […]

    David Roberts Culture

  • Friday music blogging: Pistol Annies

    I’m not what you’d call a big country music fan, though my once-fervent hatred for the genre has softened a bit as I’ve grown older. It does seem — from this outsider’s perspective — that country is a little less uniformly bland than it used to be and there’s more room for iconoclasts and experimenters. […]

    David Roberts Uncategorized
  • Listen pup: The new EPA mercury regulations are a Big Deal.
    Listen pup: The new EPA mercury regulations are a Big Deal.

    New EPA mercury rules are a bona fide Big Deal

    Wednesday, at long last, the EPA unveiled its new rule covering mercury and other toxic emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants. Anyone who pays attention to green news will have spent the last two years hearing a torrent of stories about EPA rules and the political fights over them. It can get tedious. After […]

    David Roberts Energy