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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Federal court case allows mining “fill” dumped in freshwater
A recent federal court decision (PDF) confirms and seems to expand the validity of the Bush EPA's redefinition of mine waste as "fill," allowing a gold mine to dump millions of tons of the crap into a freshwater lake north of Juneau, Alaska. This could set a truly disturbing precedent. More at Brudaimonia.
(And PS: "Brudaimonia"? That's some quality philoso-blogospheric geekery.)
Update [2006-8-8 13:7:28 by David Roberts]: Ah, I see our very own Corey blogged about the case a year or so ago. Good background.
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Malcolm Gladwell on geothermal home heating
Malcolm Gladwell, of all people, has a long post up on geothermal home heating, of all things, including a fairly detailed explanation of the technology from his father, of all people.
(Gladwell, for those of you living under a rock, is the author of such wildly successful pop-theory books as The Tipping Point and Blink.)
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Limitless sequestration?
Revkin points us to a new study that purports to identify exactly the undersea conditions necessary for "a limitless, low-risk repository for carbon dioxide."
