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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Cleaning some of the Fox off of Van Jones
Van JonesA while back I lampooned a Glenn Beck segment on Van Jones, who’s an advisor to the White House Council on Environmental Quality. According to Beck, Jones is the man on the inside for a vast cryptosocialist conspiracy involving the Apollo Alliance, Color of Change, the Center for American Progress, George Soros, ACORN, Al […]
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Could Waxman and Markey have used the EPA threat more effectively?
Should Waxman and Markey have kicked off House climate-bill negotiations with a stronger ask? The bill they introduced was effectively the U.S. Climate Action Partnership proposal, which already reflected years of negotiation and compromise. The idea was that the difficult work of negotiations had already been done — enviros and business both on board! — […]
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Friday music blogging: Gomez
Gomez is one of those bands that for a brief moment in the late ’90s and early ’00s aaalmost reached the big time, and then … didn’t. But when their moment of almost-fame passed, they didn’t quit. They’ve soldiered on ever since as a solid second-tier draw, touring incessantly and releasing a modest-selling album every […]
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Could we replace the nation’s pavement with solar panels?
Solar Roadways A while back I mentioned Solar Roadways, a clean-energy idea that appears kind of kooky, at least on the surface. (See what I did there?) The notion is to replace paved surfaces with rugged, specially built solar panels. The Solar Road Panels would contain not just solar panels but LED lighting (to enable […]
