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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Sen. Boxer’s summary of her Manager’s Amendment to Lieberman-Warner
On Friday, Senate Environment and Public Works Chair Barbara Boxer circulated a document summarizing her “substitute amendment” to the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. This is likely the version of the bill that will go to the floor. We’ll post some analysis of how the bill has changed shortly, but for now, here’s Boxer’s entire summary […]
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Permit auctions: the mark of progressive cap-and-trade
I missed this last week, but Kevin Drum is doing God’s work explaining the difference between cap-and-auction and cap-and-giveaway to the progressive masses. I did the same thing here, but as usual used way too many words.
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Clean energy kills
“You try to cap emissions and you kill more people than die if you don’t cap emissions. We will have killed people. We care about this issue the same way why we care about abortion. It kills people.” — Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, founder and national spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of […]
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ACEEE on the carbon-free energy source no one talks about
What if there were a source of carbon-free energy that in a single year in the U.S. drew $300 billion in private investment, supported 1.6 million jobs, and generated 1.7 quads of energy, roughly equivalent to the total energy required to run 40 mid-sized coal plants? We would drill anywhere, dig up anything, go to […]
