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  • No, Jeff, there’s not a debate about the science of climate change

    Climate change is happening. The science is sound. But plenty of people and organizations with various motives (all dubious) are spending millions to sow seeds of doubt among the American public. Following on our in-depth series, How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic, Grist will launch an occasional feature that tracks the latest global warming […]

    Grist staff Climate & Energy

  • California is new front line of BPA fight

    The following is a guest post submitted by Elisa Odabashian, Director, West Coast Office and State Campaigns, and Dr. Urvashi Rangan, Director of Technical Policy, Consumers Union. It’s the stuff of a good Hollywood movie-a potentially toxic chemical lurking in the bodies of most unwitting Americans; a decade of mounting but scuttled scientific evidence; government […]

    Grist staff Food

  • The cost of cap-and-trade: What MIT really thinks

    The following post was written by David Hone, the climate change adviser for Shell. It it reprinted with Hone’s permission. The experts at the MIT Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change have long been advocates of cap-and-trade as an appropriate policy instrument to drive a reduction in national emissions. They also […]

    Grist staff Climate & Energy

  • Reactions to passage of the House climate and energy bill

    Many folks are praising the House’s passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, but stressing that they want to see it improved in the Senate. Sierra Club: “With today’s historic vote, Congress has taken the first step toward unleashing a true clean energy revolution. … We urged the House to pass this bill […]

    Grist staff Politics