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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Countries strike climate deal in Bali
Apparently they’ve reached some kind of agreement at Bali. Sounds like the last 24 hours have been a real white-knuckler: BALI, Indonesia (CNN) — The United States made a dramatic reversal Saturday, first rejecting and then accepting a compromise to set the stage for intense negotiations in the next two years aimed at reducing carbon […]
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Friday music blogging: Wussy
I only heard about this band, Wussy, a few weeks ago, but I’m enjoying the hell out of them. It’s a nice mix of alt country twang and fuzzy, Sonic Youthy drone rock. The song is called “Jonah” and the album’s called Left for Dead, but, er, looking now I see it doesn’t actually come […]
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Louisiana’s Sen. Landrieu votes against party, for Big Oil
When the energy bill went before the Senate yesterday morning, it had been stripped of the Renewable Energy Standard, but it still retained the tax package, which would have reversed $13.5 billion in tax breaks to oil and gas companies to help pay for $21 billion worth of investment in renewable energy. Republicans, as always, […]
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Arlen Specter proclaims importance of fighting climate change in Bali; votes against it in D.C.
In a letter to the president (PDF), 52 members of Congress expressed their disapproval of the U.S. stance in Bali: The clear implication is that the United States will refuse to agree to any language putting the United States on an established path toward scientifically-based emission limits … We write to express our strong disagreement […]
