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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Which way do you want emissions to go?
Here’s a question for you. You know global warming is a serious problem that will have substantial and growing impacts on our economy, health, and well-being. You know global warming is driven by human greenhouse-gas emissions. Over the coming decade, do you want emissions to continue rising, or to start falling? Up or down? Under […]
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This one in North Carolina
I think you have to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal to see this, but I’ll excerpt the relevant bit: North Carolina regulators balked at a big power project fueled by coal, which furnishes half of U.S. electricity but is on the defensive over worries about pollution and global-warming gases. The state utilities commission gave […]
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Slim
Continuing on the subject of what Dems should plan in terms of global warming legislation over the next two years, here’s some insight on what conservatives are planning: At the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday, right-wing activist and anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist urged conservatives not to work to accomplish anything in the current Congress. “Get […]
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