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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19 tweets that explain how we’re stifling electricity innovation
A rant about the abysmal state of innovation and progress in the U.S. electricity sector.
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We can solve climate change, but it won’t be cheap or easy
Climate modeling often shows that it's possible to decarbonize at low cost. But "possible" is a long way from practical, or likely.
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The Exelon-Pepco merger: Big, nuke-heavy utility looking for new ratepayers to fleece
Giant utility company Exelon has a failing business model and a plan to prop it up. Both ratepayers and clean energy will get screwed in the process.
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![U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 20, 2015.]()
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Republicans edit climate-denial mockery out of Obama’s State of the Union
Obama poked the GOP for their overused "I'm not a scientist" dodge. Seems they didn't like it one bit.
