Articles by Grist staff

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

How did your rep vote on the House climate and energy bill?

By a vote of 219-212, the U.S. House of Representatives on June 26 passed a landmark climate and energy bill — the American Clean Energy and Security Act, aka the Waxman-Markey bill. Most Democrats voted for the bill — 211 in all — but 44 Dems voted against. Almost all Republicans opposed the bill — […]