Articles by Grist staff

Watts On, Watts Off

Japanese manufacturing leads the world in energy efficiency When oil supplies contract, oil-dependent economies suffer — and Japan prospers. Investors are bullish on Japan’s manufacturing sector, which has been investing in energy efficiency since the oil crisis of the early 1970s. Faced then with few domestic energy sources and near total dependence on foreign oil, […]

The Mold Song and Dance

EPA failing to inform or protect folks returning to post-Katrina mess The U.S. EPA has the authority to assess and manage environmental disasters, but activists and even some EPA staffers allege that so far agency testing of water, air, and soil in the Gulf Coast has been insufficient, and its health warnings too weak, to […]

A Refine and Pleasant Misery

House energy legislation would undermine parts of Clean Air Act You just can’t keep a bad bill down. Provisions cut from the energy bill that was passed this summer have lurched back to life; they now stumble forward under the banner of the Gasoline for America’s Security (GAS) Act, due for a House vote today. […]

Rock, Hudson

GE finally agrees to clean up PCBs in Hudson River Are we ecomagining things? General Electric Co. has finally agreed to dredge the PCBs it long ago dumped in the upper Hudson River of New York state, nearly 30 years after the contamination was discovered. With 43 miles of tainted river bottom to tend and […]