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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Max Baucus wrangles a sweet deal for Montana rural co-ops in the Lieberman-Warner bill
One bit of shenanigans that went on in the backroom negotiations over Lieberman-Warner was the effort by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) to exempt his state’s rural electricity cooperatives from the bill’s tough emission reduction targets. Now the Great Falls Tribune has picked up the story: Montana’s senior senator inserted a provision into a climate change […]
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Hillary Clinton struggles to explain away her previous opposition to corn ethanol
Over the years, Hillary Clinton has voted against subsidies and mandates for corn ethanol in the Senate a number of times. If you know anything about corn ethanol, you know that’s a good thing. When Clinton released her (otherwise excellent) energy plan this week, it contained a whole boatload of … subsidies and mandates for […]
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Colleges and universities team up with Clinton Global Initiative to green their campuses
This morning, at the US Green Building Council’s Greenbuild International Conference, hosted by Greenbuild 365, Bill Clinton made a significant announcement: Signatories to the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment — of which there are 427 at last count — will join the purchasing pool for energy efficient products and services that was established […]
