Articles by Grist staff

With This Ping, I Thee Dead

Judge temporarily restricts Navy’s sonar use to protect whales The U.S. Navy is temporarily forbidden to use high-intensity sonar in war-game exercises off the coast of Hawaii, a federal judge declared on Monday. She ruled that environmental groups had provided “considerable convincing scientific evidence that the Navy’s use of … sonar can kill, injure, and […]

Gave Proof Through the Night That Our Mag Was Still There

Grist takes a vacation to celebrate Independence Day We Gristers are proud, patriotic, exhausted Americans, and damn, we need a vacation. We’ll be sipping American beer and watching American fireworks on Monday and Tuesday, so fellow Americans (and our international audience, we love you too) will have to live without Daily Grist. We shall return […]

A Lawn Time Coming

EPA may implement California small-motor standards across U.S. The U.S. EPA indicated yesterday that it was leaning toward approving California’s proposal to require catalytic converters on small motors like those in weed whackers and lawn mowers, eliminating the equivalent of emissions from 800,000 cars. Even better, the agency suggested it may implement the high standards […]

A Bitter Drill

House votes to end moratorium on offshore drilling The House voted yesterday to end the 25-year-old ban on oil and gas drilling off most of the U.S. coast. The highly contentious debate broke down more along geographic lines than partisan ones, as states standing to make money from the drilling largely supported it. Under the […]