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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Credits will be auctioned and limits tightened
This is extremely heartening: Europe is moving toward making significant changes to its emissions-trading system that could force large polluters to pay for most, if not all, permits to produce climate-changing gases, European officials said Monday. Although the European carbon-trading arrangement is considered to be among the world’s most functional, the countries that administer it […]
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Conservatives like Bush’s climate plan because greens don’t
The conservative National Review likes the president’s new climate change strategy. Not because it will work to reduce emissions, mind you. Because it irritates environmentalists and Europeans.
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More on nuclear shillery
A while back I mentioned a great article by Diane Farsetta about the nuclear industry’s big PR push and the gullibility of the journalists covering it. Now there’s a similar piece in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, from Amanda Witherell, and it contains this delightful tidbit: A survey by Diane Farsetta, a senior researcher at […]
