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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Oil industry barely hangs on, thanks to brave Republican defense of subsidies
You may recall that a couple of months ago, Republicans in the Senate threatened a filibuster to defend about $13 billion in oil company subsidies. In other news, Exxon Mobil just posted the largest annual profit by a U.S. company in history — $40.6 billion. It also set a record for the largest ever quarterly […]
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Kansas Republicans against global warming
A prominent Republican Kansas legislator comes out in support of Sebelius and against his ideological brethren on the subject of Kansas coal plants: When every Academy of Science in every developed, industrialized nation agrees, and when the overwhelming number of scientists throughout the world state man-made global warming is a reality, then I would ask […]
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Lockheed Martin signs exclusive contract with Eestor for energy storage units
Oh! I forgot to pass on some interesting news that came my way recently. Defense mega-contractor Lockheed Martin has signed a contract with mysterious ultracapacitor company Eestor to use its energy storage devices in "military and homeland security applications." This seem huge. The buzz around Eestor — more here — has been intense, and the […]
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Environmental Capital
In case you didn’t know: The Wall Street Journal has started an environmental blog called Environmental Capital. It’s quite good. See, for instance, this post on the climate talks going on in Hawaii, and the centrality of global trade considerations thereto.
