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Patricia Lovera, food safety crusader, answers questions

Patricia Lovera With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am deputy director of the Energy and Environment Program at Public Citizen. We have campaigns on energy (fighting nuclear power and electricity deregulation), against the privatization of our water supplies, and on food safety (fighting food irradiation and other methods of industrialized food production that […]

Bill Moyers hearts us, and we him

Speaking of how great we are and how you ought to give us money: Bill Moyers (who we interviewed here)  loves us. He recently won the fourth annual Global Environment Citizen Award from the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. Meryl Streep gave him the award. Here's the speech he gave (note repeated Grist kudos, not that we're bragging, which we obviously are):

Update [2005-2-10 13:17:50 by Dave Roberts]:In the speech below, Moyers repeats a quote from James Watt that appeared in this story. It now appears that Watt never said any such thing, and a correction has been posted on the story. Moyers later apologized to Watt. The rest of the story, and Moyers speech, stands.

Hey brother, can you spare a dime?

Alaska! You rock!

That's right, the rest of you 49 laggards (you too, D.C.!). Alaska is the first state to go green in the United States of Grist.

Let us explain. Yes, we're doing a fundraiser. We gotta. We're a nonprofit and we rely on your gifts to keep going.

"Well shucks," you're thinking. "I rely on Grist for all my environmental news, served with a side dish of humor. My love for the mag is more than enough to prompt me to make a donation!"

Aww, y'all are sweet. But we like to have a twist. We're just like that. This year, we're sick of seeing that damn red and blue map everywhere, and we're sick of being told that the U.S. is composed of two alien groups who can barely recognize each other any more. We happen to believe Americans share some broad goals and principles -- clean air, clean water, and healthy food come to mind. We're all about unity, folks, and we think you are too.

So donate. When the number of donations from your state reaches its number of electoral votes, it turns from red or blue to green. Let's turn the whole country green!

We'll make a point, and oh yeah, we'll be able to keep bringing you award-winning environmental coverage. It's a win-win!

Original Cinergy

Energy giant Cinergy comes out in favor of greenhouse-gas regulations For some time, enviros have been predicting that with states and other countries starting to regulate their greenhouse-gas emissions, sooner or later large energy companies in the U.S. would begin craving the predictability of consistent federal guidelines. It appears that day is upon us, as […]