Articles by Grist staff

Grateful Deadlock

Congressional paralysis dooms environmental legislation Partisan bickering and electioneering in Washington, D.C., have led to an impasse on nearly all environmental legislation in Congress the past two years — bills that enviros love as well as ones they hate. Other than the “Healthy Forests” initiative and a piece of brownfields funding, Congress has been deadlocked […]

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Airlines start cutting emissions and raising efficiency Once considered burdensome headaches, techniques to cut pollution and increase efficiency are now being embraced by many large airlines. Why? “It turns out that good environmental behavior is also cost-effective,” said Bengt-Olov Nas of Norway’s Scandinavian Airlines System. The principal driver is rising fuel costs: The price of […]

We Feel Pretty, Oh So Pretty

Grist unveils new site and blog, acts like it’s not seeking compliments Regular readers will no doubt have noticed that Grist recently unveiled an all-new website design, with a better search engine, better navigation, and lots of pretty colors. We worked long and hard on it and hope you like it as much as we […]

Pegeen Hanrahan, mayor of Gainesville, Fla., answers questions

Pegeen Hanrahan What work do you do? Earlier this year I was elected to serve as mayor of Gainesville, Fla., for the next three years. Gainesville is a beautiful and diverse city of about 117,000, often called “the city in the forest” because of our heavy tree cover. Gainesville is the home of the University […]