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Newt’s win in South Carolina bodes well for climate
Newt Gingrich defied cynicism and tapped into voter anger to win South Carolina. That's what it will take to achieve large-scale climate solutions, too.
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Shocking but true! The director of ‘Revenge of the Electric Car’ wants to chat with you!
Chris Paine, director of the documentaries "Who Killed the Electric Car?" and "Revenge of the Electric Car," chatted with Grist readers.
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Natural gas: A bridge to nowhere
Natural gas might have been a "bridge fuel" to a low-carbon future 30 years ago, but today it does little to solve the climate problem, especially without a price on carbon.
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Old dumps, new tricks: Turning landfills into nature preserves
The Brookfield landfill was a neighborhood menace for decades. Now, it’s becoming a park with woods and wetlands -- something the experts didn’t think could be done.
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Twisted pipeline: GOP conspires with TransCanada to keep Keystone alive
Congressional Republicans are now openly acting as advocates for foreign oil interests, colluding with TransCanada lobbyists to push their tar-sands agenda.
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Featured Friend: Ben B.
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. Ben B. “I give to Grist because you’re one of the few worthy lights in the murky, besmirched, […]
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Can healthy food come from unhealthy workers?
From cramped, unclean housing to a lack of paid sick days, more and more evidence is linking poor treatment of workers in the food chain to unsafe food.
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Use of wood for home heating explodes as oil prices climb
Good news for biomass-based energy enthusiasts: Heating with wood is making a comeback. If tree carcasses are good enough to power the trucks of energy-starved North Korea, they’re good enough for homesteaders in Maine! And more to the point, heating oil has gotten super expensive.
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Chinese firms selling solar panels for less than cost
Here comes that trade war over solar panels we’ve been hearing about — the one that will have unfortunate consequences for the domestic rollout of solar power. A forthcoming study by the federal government could finally set this snowball in motion. The study reveals that Chinese solar panel makers are selling their wares at a […]
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Giant companies get real about climate adaptation
Who’s got billions of dollars and isn't going to wait for the GOP to arrive in the 21st century before they drop a significant portion of it on preparing for our climate-changed future? These guys.
