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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Can the renewable electricity standard be saved?
Last week, Harry Reid announced a pared-down energy bill, and it didn't include a key policy: the renewable electricity standard that would require utilities to get some of their power from clean energy. Now a coalition of groups is pressing him to put it back in.
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On the death of the climate bill
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has officially announced that there will be no climate bill this year. What's happened is total and complete surrender. There's no silver lining in this cloud.
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Home Star teeters on the edge
Remember Home Star, the killer bill that would incentivize thousands of home energy retrofits across the country, reduce energy bills for struggling homeowners, put some of America’s hardest hit trades back to work, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions? The one backed by a coalition of more than 1,700 organizations including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce […]
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How to make energy programs work better (for free!)
I’ve written before (more than once) that energy reformers should pay more attention to behavior. Instead there is an almost universal obsession with technology and economic cost, narrowly construed. If you think of people as rational interest maximizers, as per reigning economic folk theory, price is all that matters. You want to change behavior, you […]
