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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Mine safety agency realizes it hasn’t been penalizing law-breakers
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration recently discovered that it has failed to follow up thousands of safety citations with actual, you know, penalties. Seven years now, since 2000, some 4,000 citations for safety violations have been followed up with … bupkis. Oopsie! Said Matthew Faraci, MSHA spokesflack, "Given that this seems to have […]
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WV Supreme Court to get out of bed with Blankenship, reconsider his case
A while back, loathsome mountaintop-mining outfit Massey Energy was hit with a $50 million judgment in a West Virginia court, in a ruling that they had illegally driven other area mining companies out of business. They appealed to the W. Va. Supreme Court, which overturned the ruling in a vote of 3-2. Later, pictures turned […]
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Robust SOTU debunkery
Wow, if you want a full-meal-deal debunking of the SOTU, point your browser over to ThinkProgress. They’re dismantling the poor thing line by line. There’s the section on energy: Bush said: "Let us fund new technologies that can generate coal power while capturing carbon emissions. Let us increase the use of renewable power and emissions-free […]
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Responses to the SOTU …
… from Clinton, Obama, and Edwards. None of them mention climate or energy. Here’s Obama’s on video:
