Articles by Grist staff

Us Magazine

Seattle births hip, witty, best-ever-in-the-universe green magazine Seattle has become an epicenter for environmentally themed web ventures — an appropriately green characteristic of the so-called “Emerald City.” Heh heh. That’s the kind of witty juxtaposition you can expect to find in “Grist,” an inscrutably named but apparently quite humorous web magazine on all things green, […]

It’s Not Your Overall Coughing, It’s How Many Times You Cough Per Hour

Court hands coal-fired power plants huge victory on pollution regs The long-running legal battle launched by the Clinton administration against aging coal-fired power plants — the nation’s largest industrial source of smog-, asthma-, and global-warming-causing emissions — was dealt a decisive blow yesterday by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court ruled that […]

One Step Forward, Two Scoots Back

Updates from yesterday’s Senate energy-bill debate Highlights of yesterday’s energy-bill proceedings: The Senate voted to double the amount of ethanol to be added to the nation’s gasoline supply by 2012, from 4 billion to 8 billion gallons. Florida Sens. Mel Martinez (R) and Bill Nelson (D) successfully blocked attempts to end the congressional moratorium on […]

Between a Bush and a Warmed Place

G8 climate statement edited into submission to appease U.S. An action plan on climate change being prepared for July’s G8 summit has been substantially weakened in the lead-up to the meeting, the latest leaked draft anemic even by the not-terribly-strenuous standards of, uh, the last leaked draft. References to “setting ambitious targets and timetables” for […]