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  • Burial’s Vetting

    BP spending $100 million to bury CO2 under Sahara, hopes it stays there With the countdown to Kyoto nearing its end, oil and gas company BP is experimenting with burying some of its carbon-dioxide emissions deep underground in the Sahara desert. The burial project’s price tag of $100 million is expected to cover the injection […]

    Grist staff Technology

  • Faith-Based Initiative

    Religious leaders make the environment a “values issue” More than 1,000 Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish religious leaders from some 35 states have signed and begun circulating a statement opposing President Bush’s environmental policies. And evangelicals aren’t far behind, having drawn up an “Evangelical Call to Civic Responsibility” that emphasizes Christians’ duty to care for the […]

    Grist staff Politics

  • Old MacDonald Had a Conniption

    Proposed Bush budget cuts environment spending and ag subsidies Turns out tax cuts for the wealthy aren’t cheap. President Bush’s fiscal 2006 budget, sent to Congress today, would cut the U.S. EPA budget by about 6 percent and the National Park Service budget by nearly 3 percent, part of a broad range of cuts that […]

    Grist staff Politics

  • If Any Man Eat of This Bread, He Shall Live Pesticide-Free

    Church of England going green The Church of England has joined the battle against global warming. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will unveil his green vision for the church and begin discussion on the issue of climate change during a General Synod meeting scheduled for Feb. 17, the day after the Kyoto Protocol goes into […]

    Grist staff Culture