Influencer David Roberts - featured
David Roberts (@drgrist)
Bio: Seattleite transplanted from Tennessee; now blogging for Grist about energy politics. Climate hawk, deficit dove.
Location: Seattle, WA
Mojo: 504
Kansas considers pulling plug on renewable energy standards
CJOnline.com
2 mentions — 4 months ago
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State legislative attempts to weaken or repeal Kansas' renewable energy standard would be a setback to businesses eager to broaden wind power production or a victory to politicians uneasy with requirements that utilities develop greener portfolios.A law adopted in 2009 as part of a compromise between the Republican-led ...
An oil tax could be one of the least painful ways to trim the deficit
washingtonpost.com
2 mentions — 4 months ago
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Like it or hate it, policymakers in Washington are still obsessed with the deficit. That’s why think tanks keep churning out clever plans to cut spending and raise taxes.And here’s a new paper from the Council on Foreign Relations offering an interesting twist on the theme. Using economic ...
First Solar May Sell Cheapest Solar Power, Less Than Coal
Bloomberg
9 mentions — 5 months ago
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By Ehren Goossens & Christopher Martin -2013-02-01T00:01:00ZFirst Solar Inc. (FSLR), the world’s largest thin-film solar manufacturer, may receive the lowest rates ever for selling U.S. solar power, less than electricity from new coal plants, for a project it purchased in New Mexico, according to a regulatory filing. First Solar bought the 50-megawatt Macho Springs project from Element Power Solar, according to a statement yesterday. El Paso Electric Co. (EE) agreed to buy the power for 5.79 cents a kilowatt-hour, according to a Jan. 22 procedural
Three States Pushing ALEC Bill To Require Teaching Climate Change Denial In Schools
DeSmogBlog
4 mentions — 5 months ago
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The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) - known by its critics as a "corporate bill mill" - has hit the ground running in 2013, pushing "models bills" mandating the teaching of climate change denial in public school systems. January hasn't even ended, yet ALEC has already planted its ...
Coal museum installs solar panels to save money (obviously)
Grist
6 mentions — 6 months ago
Wales’ National Coal Mining Museum located at Big Pit, Blaenavon, Nr Abergavenny in south Wales, now has 200 photovoltaic solar panels erected on the Big Pit museum’s roof with another 200 solar panels installed on the National Collection Centre in Nantgarw.Why? Because solar panels save money, obviously. I ...