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Climate-change protesters hit the streets, fish are disappearing, and more
Read the news items highlighted in this week’s podcast: Teach a Man to Fish, and … Oh, Never Mind And I’ll Blow Your Case Down Adventures in Agriculture Hauntingly Familiar Under the Macroscope Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Mother Knows Best Bread Basket Case The Moral of the Story Home […]
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Who will control them if the Dems win
If, as widely expected, the Dems take the House tonight, it will represent a fundamental shift in power in D.C. A big part of that will be control over key committees. Here are the main green-related committees, and the House member who stands to take over in a Dem-controlled House:
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Key races on the green front
In today's Senate showdowns, there's plenty to be anxious about on the enviro front. Muckraker's got the nitty gritty on key races here, but a quick rundown of races to watch out for:
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We’re all going
So Texas Governor Rick Perry thinks all non-Christians are going to hell?
That's a bitter pill to swallow from someone who's doing everything he can to create hell on this earth.
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Allen Johnson rallies Christians to fight against mountaintop-removal mining
Allen Johnson. As its not-at-all euphemistic name would indicate, mountaintop-removal mining makes no effort to disguise its impact. Coal-mining companies brazenly invade Appalachian communities, blow the tops off mountains, send massive coal trucks careening up and down narrow roads, spew coal dust into the air and mining waste into the water, and terrorize residents who […]
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Who’s On First?
Officials in suburban Detroit point fingers over contaminated park You remember when Katrina hit, and officials spent their time blaming each other instead of helping people? This is sort of like that, only smaller, and with less wind. Unsuspecting families in a Detroit suburb have played in a contaminated county park for years while city, […]
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Vote for Grist!
Our Election Day coverage offers hope and a blogging blitz Here at Grist, we love Election Day. There’s a certain buzz in the air, a feeling that all Americans face a united calling. Yeah, yeah, we know only 38.2 percent of Americans bother to vote — but we’re doing our dangedest to remain optimistic. So […]
