Articles by Grist staff

Buenos Vistas

New EPA effort to cut haze in national parks The U.S. EPA this week released new regulations designed to clean up hazy air in 156 national parks and wilderness areas. The rules aim to eliminate 1 million tons of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide emissions a year by 2014. States must identify the industrial sites […]

Can’t? Well …

Senate adds eco-friendly provisions to energy bill The Senate put a surprisingly green cast on the energy bill yesterday, approving an amendment that would require power companies to generate 10 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020, and another that would direct $14 billion in tax incentives to alternative fuels and energy efficiency. […]

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 […]