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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Is Obama the ‘environmental president’?
Some folks are upset about Jonathan Chait's column in New York magazine arguing that Obama is making real progress on climate change. I think Chait mostly gets it right.
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Cap-and-trade puttering along quite nicely in the Northeast U.S.
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative produced $1.6 billion in economic value for participating states, a new study finds. Yes, carbon trading can be good for the economy.
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What would ‘wartime mobilization’ to fight climate change look like?
It would look like a lot of big government, according to a pair of new papers. And it would take a very strong climate movement to get there.
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The medium chill, revisited
Two years later, we offer a look back at "the medium chill" and a consideration of what it means to live a meaningful life.
