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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WRI updates chart of greenhouse gas targets in 110th Congress
As Kate reported in June, there’s a new climate bill in the mix in Congress, a fairly ambitious bill from Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.). The World Resources Institute has dutifully update its "Comparison of Legislative Climate Change Targets in the 110th Congress." Here’s the short story (click […]
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Pipeline to nowhere
Remember the natural gas pipeline that played such a big role in Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech? The one God himself blessed? One of the few actual accomplishments on her resume? Turns out not so much: The pipeline exists only on paper. The first section has yet to be laid, federal approvals are years away and […]
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Big emissions gains require big investments; get over it
I’m not particularly invested in white roofs — the subject of several stories yesterday, reporting research showing that painting roofs white in several major urban areas would have a surprisingly large effect on warming — but Keith Johnson’s response on Environmental Capital makes me grind my teeth: The scale and cost of any program that […]
