Articles by Grist staff

Urbana Renewal

Illinois commission votes to expand state’s clean energy sources The Illinois Commerce Commission has approved a sustainable-energy initiative designed to increase the state’s reliance on renewables, especially wind power. The plan is voluntary, but if it is fully embraced by all of the state’s utilities Illinois could see 8 percent of its electricity produced via […]

Brussels Pouts

European Union commissioners duke it out over green legislation Today’s meeting of the E.U.’s European Commission is a make-or-break moment for the union’s sustainable-development policies, according to eco-advocates. Since taking office last November, commission president José Manuel Barroso has delayed initiatives on pesticides, the marine environment, air quality, and more, saying they might prevent the […]

Why Does He Hate Toads?

SCOTUS nominee John G. Roberts not a green’s first pick President Bush’s new Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. has a distinguished conservative pedigree: He clerked for conservative Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist and was deputy White House counsel during the Reagan administration. With only two years under his belt as a federal judge, […]

The Winner of Your Discontent

Grist reader who’s not you headed to Iceland Have you been waiting anxiously by your email, clicking the “get messages” button, unable to sleep or even look away, hoping and praying that you’re the big winner of Grist‘s Great Ice-Scape contest, headed on a carbon-neutral eco-tourism adventure to sunny Iceland? Well, um, sorry. You’re not. […]