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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  • University president quits Massey board after green group campaign

    After a 14-week campaign by green groups, Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee stepped down from the board of directors of mountaintop-removal mining company Massey Energy today. Ohio Citizen Action, then Sierra Club, Greenpeace USA, Earthjustice, and Friends of the Earth, said that Gee’s relationship with Massey worked against his school’s efforts to develop […]

    David Roberts Technology

  • Deforestation in Waxman-Markey

    I really like Title VII Part E of the Waxman-Markey bill, which puts aside some pollution permit value to reduce international deforestation. (It’s separate from Part D, Offsets.) There are plenty of set-asides in the bill for energy producers, industrials, refineries, all sorts of private interests. VII-E is one of the few set-asides for public […]

    David Roberts Politics

  • Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein gets climate bill wrong

    In a laudable attempt to draw more elite media attention to the Waxman-Markey bill — which, like all things “environmental,” has not exactly been a preoccupation of the political cable/blog/op-ed axis — Washington Post business writer Steven Pearlstein makes a hash of a few important facts. Pearlstein says the Waxman-Markey bill will create “create dozens of […]

    David Roberts Politics

  • The Daily Show on fuel efficiency standards

    Jon Stewart was brilliant as usual on Obama’s new fuel efficiency standards: [vodpod id=Video.1652252&w=425&h=350&fv=autoPlay%3Dfalse]

    David Roberts Politics