Articles by Grist staff

Green Ketchup

Teresa Heinz Kerry Critical of Bush Environmental Record Teresa Heinz Kerry slammed the Bush administration’s efforts to change clean-air and clean-water rules as “inexcusable and unforgivable” in a speech in Manhattan on Saturday. This may seem a predictable partisan jab coming from the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, but there’s more to Heinz […]

Aguapocalypse

Mexico Faces Coming Water Crisis A dam planned for the Huentitan Canyon northeast of Guadalajara, Mexico, is becoming a flashpoint of political controversy and a grim illustration of the water problems spreading across the country. Guadalajara, like many Mexican cities, has grown sharply in population without adding any new water sources, and now faces periodic […]

A Flighty Wind

Wind Power Sparks Controversy Across Western Europe In Western European countries, where thousands of wind farms are sprouting up across the landscape, fierce bickering has broken out over the benefits and drawbacks of wind energy. In the U.K. and Germany, activists and rural residents are waging a ferocious battle against what the Germans call “Verspargelung […]

Mitt Wit

Mass. Gov. Questions Climate Change and Launches Plan to Fight It When a draft of Massachusetts’ new plan to fight global warming was released, enviros were heartened that a Republican governor was acknowledging the seriousness of the problem. When the final plan was released, however, Gov. Mitt Romney attached a letter to it in which […]