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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Watch him dance
Watch as Multiple-Choice Mitt tries to say sensible things about energy independence without taking a stand on any particular scientific or policy issue: (via Hugg)
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Take a magical tour of discovery!
Ugh. I’ve got about 50 things stacked up to write about, but I’ve finally been struck by the illness that’s been floating around Seattle. I can’t breathe, my muscles ache, and my head is … fuzzy. I feel stoopid. Anyway, here’s a bunch of random stuff: I giggled and clapped so much my wife came […]
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This one’s funny
Ah, this is rich. Between 1980 and 2004, the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities made upgrades to its three power plants. In at least 15 cases, it failed to apply for or receive New Source Review permits beforehand, or monitor emissions afterwards, putting it in violation of the Clean Air Act. In Nov. 2004, […]
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He thinks the poor people in New Orleans didn’t do enough of it
How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn’t get out of the way of a […]
