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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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  • The renewable portfolio standard will return

    The Renewable Portfolio Standard will return to Congress. Multiple Dems have vowed that the RPS will return as a separate bill when Congress is back in session. I believe them exactly 87 percent. Despite the recent energy bill debacle, the RPS is not entirely political poison. Some 29 states have adopted one (a confusing patchwork!) […]

  • Green lists from 2007

    Remember when we published our Top 15 Green Stories of 2007? Literally the day before the holiday break? So no one read it? That was awesome. Now go read it. When you get back, here are a few other random greenish lists I’ve stumbled across: Plenty magazine: Plenty’s picks for top environmental stories of 2007 […]

  • Why not Eilperin?

    After four separate posts bashing Peter Baker’s craptastic WaPo piece, I come to a simple question: Why did they have Baker write this piece instead of their environmental reporter Juliet Eilperin? She’s incredibly sharp, one of the best green reporters working today. I doubt she would have gone along with the spin as easily as […]

  • Tom Carper totally knows the president

    (An on we go, in a series on the WaPo piece so bad it required numerous separate gripes.) Tom Carper would like you to know that he’s a) committed on global warming, and b) tight with the president: People find all sorts of ways to lobby President Bush. Sometimes it comes in the form of […]