Articles by Grist staff

Not In My Back Yardarm

Biggest U.S. oil-tanker company slapped with $37 million in dumping fines They would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling pipe fitters: the nation’s largest oil-tanker company, Overseas Shipholding Group, will pay $37 million for gooping up U.S. seas. For nearly five years, the company’s ships dumped waste oil and sludge […]

And they (heart) us!

You may find this hard to believe, but there are people we love even more than we love ourselves -- our readers! Especially those of you who help us fight the good fight by sending a li'l dough our way now and then.

And how do we show our love in return, aside from imparting daily wit and wisdom? By giving away nifty prizes to donors whose names are randomly drawn out of our recycled hemp hat!

Below, we show off a couple of unsolicited photos that came after our last fund drive. Look how attractive and intelligent and funny (and did we mention attractive?) our readers are! (And see, we really do give away those prizes!)

We’ll Miss the Mall

From the campaign trail, John Edwards outlines big energy plans Today we learned something: there are other Democrats running for president besides Hillrack O’Clinton. Surprised? So were we! Seems a charming southerner, name of John Edwards, is on the campaign trail. And though he’s just your run-of-the-mill white fella, the former North Carolina senator is […]

Everything’s Up To Date in Kansas City Power & Light

Sierra Club makes groundbreaking deal with Midwest utility If a groundbreaking deal between an electric company and the Sierra Club is any indication, we can all get along. Aww. The green group has agreed to quit a six-year campaign against a new Missouri coal plant being built by Kansas City Power & Light; in return, […]