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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Al Gore offers a five-part plan for solving the climate and financial crises
Al Gore has a fantastic op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times. There’s lots of good stuff, but one thing I was particularly pleased to see is this dismissal of the rush lately toward dirty domestic fuel: Some still see this as a problem of domestic production. If we could only increase oil and coal production […]
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New New Deal
The Campaign for America’s Future on the possibility of a new New Deal:
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Obama mulls Energy Security Council
The latest, according to "sources close to the transition," is that Obama is thinking of creating an Energy Security Council, modeled on the National Security Council. This was, of course, one of Hillary Clinton’s signature proposals, though she called it the National Energy Council. Interestingly, the idea seems to be coming from John Podesta, who […]
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Friday music blogging: The Knux
I used to be quite enthusiastic about hip-hop, but in the last five or so years it just seems to have gotten pretty crappy — more and more simplistic ring-toney bluster and less and less creativity. (You kids get off my lawn!) I rarely have the patience to wade through new stuff to find what’s […]
