Articles by Grist staff

Talking 'Bout Power Generation

A coalition of unions, environmental groups, and consumer advocacy groups plans to unveil a plan tomorrow to tackle California’s energy crisis. The coalition members are concerned that labor and environmental protections might be rolled back. In their view, utilities and power generators are the big bad guys whose pursuit of wealth led to the current […]

Credits Where Credits Are Due

In a report scheduled for release next month, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is expected to endorse emissions trading and protecting forests and planting new ones as effective strategies to curb global warming. A final draft of the report says that the cost to industrialized countries for fighting global warming could be cut […]

Drill Bitten

To open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas drilling, President Bush will have to change the minds of seven Republican senators who are on the record as opposed to drilling. Last year, proponents of drilling won a symbolic 51-49 vote. In the fall election, however, anti-drilling forces gained seats, and […]

River on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

The Spanish government approved a controversial plan last Friday to divert one of the country’s largest rivers in the north to the arid regions of southeastern Spain. Environmentalists say the plan to drain the Ebro River will violate European Union laws on water management and ruin the habitat of the Iberian lynx, which is on […]