Articles by Grist staff

Don’t Hook Now

Senate passes bill to strengthen fisheries oversight The Senate passed a bill this week that would ramp up fisheries oversight, require annual catch limits, develop a uniform environmental review for fisheries management plans, and boost the role of scientific advisory committees. The legislation, passed unanimously, renews and improves the 30-year-old Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management […]

Refining Fault

Green groups sue EPA over refinery emissions rules Yet again, environmental groups are suing the U.S. EPA for issuing rules the enviros say will increase pollution. In the old days, refineries and other industrial plants were required to submit a malfunction contingency plan to the EPA; under a rule that went into effect in April, […]

An Irritating Truth

EIA predicts world will continue to guzzle energy According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, growing public consciousness of the impending worldwide energy crisis is going to … well, have basically no effect at all. World energy demand will surge 71 percent between 2003 to 2030, predicted the EIA yesterday, and energy-related carbon dioxide emissions […]

All the Right Moves

Grist needs more help getting a move on If you’ve been following our saga over the last week or so, you know that Grist is about to make two big moves: the physical kind, which will land us in a new office space, and the, uh, metaphysical kind, which will lead to all kinds of […]