Articles by Grist staff

Friends With Benefits

Saudi-owned company set to profit from proposed MTBE liability shield OK, kids, follow the bouncing red ball: The Republican energy bill, pending in the Senate, is advertised as a way to gain independence from Saudi Arabian oil (boing!). Part of the energy bill, included at the insistence of Texas Rep. Tom DeLay (R), is a […]

All That You Can’t Weave Behind

Fashion consumers tending toward greener garb Increasingly, fashionistas “don’t just want to look good in their clothes, they want to feel good in their clothes,” says Ali Hewson, co-creator (with her husband, U2’s Bono) of eco-sensitive clothing line Edun. With a growing number of ethical and green clothing lines hitting the market and making use […]

Subsidy Slickers

Nuke subsidies being added to McCain-Lieberman climate bill The latest draft of the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act proposes hundreds of millions of dollars in new subsidies for the nuclear power industry, in the form of a cost-splitting arrangement that would have the feds shoulder half the expense of developing and getting regulatory approval for three […]

On a Wing and a Mayor

U.S. mayors form coalition to fight climate change, one city at a time A bipartisan coalition of 132 U.S. mayors — led by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels (D), and recently joined by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) — has issued a high-profile rebuke of Bush administration inaction on climate change. The leaders have […]