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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New CEQ head Nancy Sutley on transit and green jobs
I am loving the level of transparency and interactivity from the Obamites so far, but I must say, this is directionally heartening but somewhat short on specifics. Sutley likes transit, green jobs, and efficiency. But what's the administration going to do about them?
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Magnetically levitated wind turbines
Some surprisingly cool green tech, brought to you by ... Jay Leno?
(via Jetson Green)
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New York Times creates dedicated environmental reporting team
This is extremely kick-ass news: The New York Times is creating a dedicated unit of eight reporters, with their own full-time editor, to cover environmental stories.
Columbia Journalism Review has all the details:
That editor is Erica Goode, a former behavior and psychology reporter turned Health editor who has been at the Times since 1998 and spent her last year in Baghdad covering the Iraq War. Her impressive team comprises Andrew Revkin and Cornelia Dean from Science, Felicity Barringer and Leslie Kaufman from National, Elisabeth Rosenthal from Foreign, Mia Navarro from Metro, and the Washington bureau's Matthew Wald, who writes for the paper's Energy Challenge series (another multi-department project).
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Lou Dobbs works to make CNN viewers less informed
Will you look at the monumental, paleolithic, mind-boggling idiocy that's appearing on CNN in prime time?
Amazing. But there's more:
"Advocates of global warming." They're called scientists, you neanderthal. Christ. What year is it?