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David Roberts

Writer

I write about energy and climate change.

We have to accelerate clean energy innovation to curb the climate crisis. Here’s how.

By David Roberts October 31, 2020

Big Oil’s hopes are pinned on plastics. It won’t end well.

By David Roberts October 28, 2020

The absurd controversy over Joe Biden’s “transition away from the oil industry”

By David Roberts October 27, 2020

Geothermal energy is poised for a big breakout

By David Roberts October 21, 2020

What’s causing climate change, in 10 charts

By David Roberts October 16, 2020

How Joe Biden could reorient foreign policy around climate change

By David Roberts October 9, 2020

What Joe Biden was trying to say about the Green New Deal

By David Roberts October 7, 2020

On climate change, oil and gas companies have a long way to go

By David Roberts September 25, 2020

Noam Chomsky’s Green New Deal

By David Roberts September 21, 2020

4 astonishing signs of coal’s declining economic viability

By David Roberts September 16, 2020