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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Tennessee ash spill more than three times larger than originally thought
NYT: “Coal Ash Spill Is Much Larger Than Initially Estimated“ Initially authorities said there were 2.6 million cubic yards of ash in the pond, and 1.7 million spilled. Now they’re saying 5.4 million cubic yards have spilled — more than double the original estimate of the total in the pond. Fills you with trust in […]
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American taxpayers help pay for coal sent to China
Lee Buchsbaum writes that U.S. coal producers increasingly find it more profitable to export their product: With the falling dollar, selling to Asia, Europe or South America is giving coal producers a higher return than selling into the United States. "If I were running a coal company and I looked at what’s happening on Capitol […]
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Deep Christmas thought
Watching my kids’ absolute, uncontainable delight as they play with cheesy, old, used Star Wars toys that my wife and I Santa got off eBay, a thought occurred to me. I’ve argued before that “materialism” isn’t really the right word for what plagues affluent developed countries. We don’t seem to care about material — that […]
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Merry Christmas!
A very merry Christmas to all you Gristians — if you celebrate it anyway. Hell, even if you don’t. Nothing wrong with being merry, right? In honor of the occasion, I give you the single greatest Christmas song ever recorded: “Merry Christmas from the Family,” by Robert Earl Keen.
