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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Gay sex and global warming
"If only gay sex caused global warming" is not only the most humorously titled, but one of the most psychologically and sociologically astute analyses of global warming I've ever seen in the confines of a newspaper op-ed.
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Kunstler
For those of you who can't get enough of Mr. Doomy Gloomenstein, there's an interview with James Howard Kunstler up on Worldchanging.
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Big Three Automakers shun hybrids for flex-fuel hoo-hah
It looks like America's Big Three automakers have decided that "flex-fuel" vehicles -- i.e., vehicles that can run on an ethanol blend -- are their ticket to green credibility.
Aargh.
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More House shenanigans
Hm, turns out that Interior Appropriations bill has some nastiness in it too:
The Senate Appropriations Committees has included language in the FY 07 Interior Appropriations Bill to exempt some logging projects on the National Forests from the normal citizen comment and appeal requirements. Section 426 of the Senate Interior Appropriations bill provides that projects "categorically excluded" by the Forest Service do not need to be subjected to public notice, comment and appeal. In recent years, the agency has greatly expanded the size of logging projects that can be "categorically excluded."
