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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Does the RES stand a chance?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may still try to pass a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES). Does it have a shot, or will Republicans pull the football?
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Coal industry flack combines chutzpah and illogic into tasty agitprop stew
A letter to The New York Times from Steve Miller, head of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, is dense with illogic and deception.
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The environmentalist's paradox: we do better while the earth does worse
More people have more money, health, mobility, food, and security than ever before in human history. The natural world, however, is going to sh*t.
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Richard Burr: objectionable and vulnerable
In my depressing-ass post yesterday, I noted that Lisa Murkowski's departure from the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee would leave Richard Burr (R-N.C.) as the ranking Republican. Burr, I said, "seems unobjectionable." It has been pointed out by certain interested parties that despair is no excuse for abandoning standards altogether. As it happens there is plenty about Burr's record to which one might reasonably object.
