Articles by Grist staff

Moon Lighting

Moon-Driven Tidal Power Delivers Electricity to Norwegian Homes Turns out the sun isn’t the only celestial body that can provide eco-friendly power; the moon is now getting into the game. This weekend, a number of homes in the far north of Norway started getting energy from a sub-sea power station driven by the rise and […]

You Can Ring Myron Ebell, Ebell, Ebell

White House Tries to Undermine Government Research on Climate Change The Bush White House seems to have teamed up with a conservative think tank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, to undermine the credibility of government scientists doing research on climate change. Myron Ebell, a director of CEI, which has received more than $1 million in funding […]

The Endesa Nigh

Indigenous Activists Give Up Fight Over Chilean Dam After a six-year protest, four elderly Pehuenche women have agreed to end their opposition to a $570 million hydroelectric dam to be built on their ancestral land in Southern Chile. After lengthy negotiations with the Chilean government and Endesa, the Spanish-owned power company building the dam, the […]

Sour Home Alabama

Budget Cuts Could Mean Lax Enforcement at Alabama’s Landfills Proposed budget cuts to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management could spell the end of virtually all landfill and medical-waste facility inspections, state officials say. The state plans to cut $1.3 million of the $5 million it normally contributes to the department’s budget; the remainder of […]