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  • The Nukes of Hazzard

    Utilities not as hot for new nuke plants as Bush is Not everyone is as cuckoo for new nuke plants as President Bush, not even the nation’s electric utilities. Though some power companies have shown some interest in planning for future nuclear power plants in the U.S., experts concede the stars are not aligned just […]

    Grist staff Technology

  • They Did It Norway

    Norway’s high gas and auto taxes lead to lower gas consumption Americans, who view cheap oil as a divine birthright and throw a tantrum when gas prices exceed $2, would surely view Norway as a strange and alien land if they, ahem, knew anything about it. Despite the Scandinavian country’s huge oil reserves — it […]

    Grist staff Cities

  • Mike Millikin, publisher of green-car blog, answers questions

    Mike Millikin. What work do you do? I am the publisher/writer of Green Car Congress, a site covering technologies, issues, and policies for sustainable mobility. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute “mission accomplished”? My mission is to build a company that offers a portfolio of media products providing detailed […]

    Grist staff Technology

  • Overwhelming Scientific Consensus Grows Overwhelminger

    Climate really changing, oceans reveal to researchers Hey, did you know that the globe is warming? Really and for true! A new study by researchers at NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Columbia University, published in the journal Science this week, concludes that global warming is real. Really. Lead scientist James Hansen calls the […]

    Grist staff Climate & Energy