Articles by Grist staff

OK, We’ll Just Drill Over Here Instead

Bush administration opens up Alaska wildlife habitat to drilling The Bush administration’s lust for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge having gone unrequited, it’s going to stick its derricks in some sloppy seconds: The Department of Interior is opening up hundreds of thousands of acres of other Alaskan wildlife habitat to drilling. The land around Teshekpuk […]

Sicken-Me Elmo

California may restrict two chemicals used in plastic baby goods In its continuing quest to make the rest of the country look environmentally retrograde, the California legislature is considering a bill that would ban the use of two controversial chemicals in baby products. Specifically, it would prohibit phthalates, used to soften plastic items like chew […]

A Char, Char Better Thing That I Do

New study finds salvage logging bad for burned forests The timber industry and Bush administration officials contend that salvage logging post-wildfire is the quickest path to reforestation, but a new study refutes that claim. Published in Science, it found that logging of burned trees after the 2002 Biscuit fire in Oregon — the biggest wildfire […]

The Green Mileage

Mileage estimates likely to decline under EPA’s proposed new system The U.S. EPA has proposed new standards for calculating auto fuel-economy ratings, expected to reduce by 5 to 30 percent the mileage estimates in window stickers on new cars and trucks. Ouch. It’s the first ratings overhaul since 1985, intended to reflect changes in driving […]