Articles by Grist staff

A Bee in Their Bonnet

The chair of the current climate change conference, Dutch Environment Minister Jan Pronk, said yesterday that his “hopes are growing day by day” that an international agreement would be reached. But others at the conference in Bonn, Germany, were far more pessimistic about a positive outcome. It’s not just environmental groups that are pulling for […]

We'll Mop the Floor With Them

The U.S. House Resources Committee voted 26-17 yesterday to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, but Democrats believe they will be able to win enough votes from Republican moderates to defeat the measure on the House floor. Meanwhile, the full U.S. Senate passed a bill yesterday to ban drilling under […]

Top of the R&D Charts

Undercutting an argument made by the Bush administration, a study by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has found that federal research and development efforts to improve energy conservation and efficiency have produced big environmental and economic gains. The academy released a report yesterday detailing how a $13 billion federal investment since 1978 has returned […]

Dental Damn

A coalition of health and environmental groups sued the American Dental Association last month for misleading consumers about the content and safety of dental fillings. The groups say the ADA is duping consumers into believing that amalgam fillings are made of silver, when the major component is actually mercury. A scientist from the University of […]