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A Lott of B.S.
Saying the U.S. is facing an energy crisis, Republicans in the Senate yesterday proposed an overhaul of the country’s energy policy that would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas drilling and provide billions of dollars of tax incentives and spending to spur additional domestic oil exploration. Senate Majority Leader […]
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Sherpas Attack
Nepali sherpa climbers will be paid to bring trash down from Mount Everest under a new program by the Nepal Mountaineering Association. Bhumi Lal Lama, an official with the group, says sherpas may earn up to $6 for each pound of garbage they carry from various upper camps to base camp. The worst site is […]
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Smoggy Went a Courtin' and They Did Fail, Uh-huh
In one of its most significant environmental decisions in years, the U.S. Supreme Court today rejected industry arguments and unanimously upheld the way the federal government sets clean air standards. The trucking and manufacturing industries argued that the U.S. EPA should consider compliance costs and not just health benefits in setting the standards. But Justice […]
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Believe It or Not, We're Walking on Air
Thanks to your votes, Grist was the winner of the Alternet New Media Hero Award contest. Shucks, we can hardly believe it. Thanks again for all your support — we sure do appreciate it (and maybe we can leverage the award into more funding for compact fluorescent bulbs in the office).
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Taipei Personalities
About 10,000 Taiwanese who don’t want construction to resume on Taiwan’s fourth nuclear power plant marched in protest through Taipei this weekend, calling for a national referendum on the issue. The plant, already one-third complete, was initiated by the Nationalist Party, which still holds a significant majority in the legislature despite losing the presidency to […]
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Second Class Citizen
Al Gore spent his second class as a professor at Columbia University’s journalism school focusing on how the media cover global warming. Before the class, students were given materials suggesting that the vast majority of the world’s climate scientists believe global warming is occurring, and they were asked questions like, “Is it your view that […]
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In the Driver's Seat
With buddies of the auto industry now in charge of the White House, automakers said last week that they will no longer lobby to freeze federal fuel-efficiency standards. The Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards have remained unchanged since 1975, and the industry until last year had been successful in blocking the Clinton administration from even […]
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What's Good for G.M. Is Bad for California
General Motors sued California on Friday to overturn the state’s zero-emissions-vehicle mandate, which requires automakers to produce a limited number of ZEV vehicles in 2003 and increase the number in following years. The lawsuit claims that the California Air Resources Board didn’t take seriously automakers’ concerns about the mandate’s cost or consider a reasonable alternative […]
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The Rain in Spain Falls Wherever the Government Wants
Tens of thousands of demonstrators, including musicians and children, took to the streets of Barcelona yesterday to protest a massive $23 billion water diversion project in Spain. The plan, which is now before the country’s parliament for final approval, would divert the Ebro River in the northeast and involve the construction of 120 dams to […]
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Sunita Dubey, Toxics Link India
Sunita Dubey is a regional coordinator based in New Delhi for Toxics Link India, an information clearinghouse for toxics and related issues. Monday, 26 Feb 2001 DELHI, India As usual, I wake up with Monday blues. It takes me almost an hour to reach my office. Typically I enjoy observing the hustle and bustle of […]
