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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My radio silence
I said the other day that I'm going to start blogging more and then I went silent. What's up?
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Chris Hayes on the absurdity of oil subsidies
Guest hosting for Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes unspools a nice, long segment on the latest failed attempt to remove oil company subsidies. It’s worth watching the whole thing:
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More on ramping down baseload power and ramping up storage
Baseload is going the way of VHS. We must shed our aversion to innovation so we can start actually planning for the energy system we want.
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Black people get asthma so everybody else can get cheap power
African Americans are more likely than whites to live near coal-fired power plants -- and, not coincidentally, they have a 35 percent higher rate of asthma.
