Articles by Grist staff

What, Too Busy Screwing Up New Orleans?

EPA abandons big cleanup plans near New York City’s Ground Zero The U.S. EPA is ditching ambitious cleanup plans for post-9/11 lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, disbanding a panel of scientists, community leaders, and local officials that has met for 20 months on the matter. The panel’s efforts — to devise a comprehensive decontamination plan for […]

Steamroll on Columbia

Idaho senator axes funding for agency that studies endangered salmon Well, that’s one way to deal with scientific findings you don’t like! Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) has wiped out funding for the Fish Passage Center, a 12-person, $1.3 million agency widely respected by salmon-conservation experts. The center has documented shrinking fish numbers in the Columbia […]

Leggo My Negotiation

U.S. gums up works at Montreal climate talks Representatives of the world’s governments are currently gathered in Montreal for a historic summit on the most pressing problem facing civilization: global warming. And the U.S.? “The United States is opposed to any such discussions,” says Harlan Watson, who bears the somewhat misleading title of “chief U.S. […]

Carbon Choppy

Northeast greenhouse-gas pact delayed The long-negotiated and much-anticipated — by us climate geeks anyway — cap-and-trade climate pact among nine Northeast states, originally set to be announced this week, has been delayed. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) has extended negotiations, saying that with recent spikes in energy prices, the plan would raise the cost of […]