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Featured Friend: Jeff I.
Each month, we showcase one of our beloved Friends with Benefits — folks who have donated to support our work. Want to take your relationship with Grist to the next level? Just donate any amount to join the fun. Jeff I. “Here’s a picture with me and my oldest boy and best friend. I support Grist because […]
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Harvard professor has it right: U.S. climate push requires intense grassroots support around ‘cap-and-dividend’ bill
Theda Skocpol hits the nail on the head: We need cap-and-dividend, a wonky-sounding policy that nonetheless gets regular people excited.
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Lawmakers call for end to animal-deafening, oil-finding offshore surveys
Not that this means the surveys will actually stop.
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Pacific Northwest paying high price for carbon emissions
It is ironic that despite relatively progressive clean energy policies the West Coast is paying an unusually high price for global carbon emissions. Ocean water off the Pacific coast has absorbed so much carbon that it is becoming acidic enough to melt the shells of sea creatures. Our national and global addiction to fossil fuel […]
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Keystone XL decision unlikely before June — and that’s good news
The economics of tar sands got tougher in both the U.S. and Europe today.
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Chevron reports record profits — and will spend some of them undermining California pollution standards
It's a lovely system we've got going here.
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Sometimes a driverless car is not just a driverless car: Thoughts on widgets and systems
Driverless cars are coming soon, offering an opportunity to think about the difference between swapping out technological widgets and changing whole systems.
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu to resign
The move, widely expected, means there are vacancies at the top of all three major agencies that deal with energy and environmental issues.
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Toppled U.K. wind turbines likely an act of sabotage
Our story from yesterday gets a little more complex and interesting.
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Burger King maybe served customers burgers with horse meat in them
When testers started looking for telltale horse DNA, they found it.
