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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No carbon reduction program is a silver bullet
Something about NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg’s arguments for a carbon tax struck me as a little too glib, too pat. Barack Obama’s energy advisor Madhuri Kommareddi does as good a job as anyone of explaining why, arguing that a cap-and-auction system beats a carbon tax on the merits: Why this system instead of carbon tax? […]
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An exciting bill people are talking about
I give you RCESA: Two members of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, U.S. Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), today introduced legislation in the House that would make renewable electricity produced in rural areas available to urban energy users. Specifically, their Rural Clean Energy Superhighways Act would improve electricity […]
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Notable quotable
“If the internet goes down, global warming will triumph for sure.” — Bill McKibben
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New Kaiser poll reveals voter priorities
These answers are from a new Kaiser Foundation poll: —– What do you think is the most important problem for the president and Congress to address? Is there another problem you think is almost as important? (open-ended) Issue Rank Total Republicans Democrats Independents 1 Iraq (54%) Iraq (53%) Iraq (62%) Iraq (52%) 2 Health care […]
