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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Obama’s new climate czar on various environmental issues
Carol Browner is set to become Obama’s czar point-person on climate and energy issues. To get a flavor of her thinking, check out the short videos she did for the On Day One project. Here she urges the next president to reassert the importance of independent science: Here she urges the next president to reverse […]
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A carbon tax has efficient sticks, but what about carrots?
I’m finding the carbon tax vs. cap-and-trade debate unsatisfying, for several reasons. Here I’ll try to get at just one of them. In broad terms, you want greenhouse gas policy to do two things (well, more than two, but let’s focus): penalize the emission of GHGs and reward the prevention of GHG emissions. Sticks and […]
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Rachel Maddow takes on ‘clean coal’ and its carolers
Good stuff: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.1011990&w=425&h=350&fv=launch%3D28167243%26width%3D400%26height%3D320]
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Obama’s environmental team is centered around a long-time Gore acolyte
When Obama and Biden met with Al Gore on Tuesday, they were purposefully bland about what was discussed. Now that Obama has revealed his green team, it appears they may have been asking Gore’s blessing. Of the four environment/energy appointees announced (or leaked), three worked in the Clinton/Gore EPA, and one, Carol Browner, was a […]
