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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Money: not everything
A little while ago, AEI got widely pilloried for offering scientists $10,000 for a critical assessment of the policy-relevant portions of the IPCC report. Meanwhile, Virginia Tech just paid Robert Kennedy Jr. $20,000 for an hour-long speech criticizing President Bush’s environmental record. Point being, there’s lots of money sloshing around, and while funding sources are […]
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Decent
Today, Hillary Clinton addressed the Apollo Alliance to introduce some new legislation that would call for a Strategic Energy Fund. Here’s where the fund would get its money: The legislation eliminates oil company tax breaks and ensures that they pay their fair share of royalties for drilling on public lands. The legislation also places a […]
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Starts with an Al
David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, says what’s on everyone’s mind.
