Articles by Grist staff

I've Got a Little List

The Sierra Club is running an $8 million campaign to promote candidates it likes (mostly Democrats with a few Republicans thrown in) and attack candidates it does not. The group’s good guys include Reps. Brian Baird (D-Wash.), Lane Evans (D-Ill.), Joseph Hoeffel (D-Pa.), Rush Holt (D-N.J.), Jay Inslee (D-Wash), Jim Leach (R-Iowa), Adam Smith (D-Wash.), […]

Yeah, I'm the Tax, Man

Automakers avoided $10.2 billion in taxes on 1999 models of SUVs, pick-up trucks, vans, and minivans because of a loophole in the law establishing fuel-efficiency standards, says Friends of the Earth. Automakers are required to pay a tax on gas-guzzling passenger cars that don’t meet fuel-efficiency standards, but light-duty trucks are currently exempt from the […]

Schoolhouse Rocks

Los Angeles is at the center of small surge in solar energy use. The L.A. Convention Center, which housed the Democratic convention earlier this month, has installed 15,000 square feet of solar panels and has plans for more. City Hall and the Department of Water and Power are next, and the zoo is designing a […]

Holey Ozone, Batman!

The ozone hole over the Antarctic will likely be larger this year than last, as ozone depletion has been usually severe so far this year, the World Meteorological Organization announced yesterday. Ozone depletion normally begins in August, peaks in October, and recovers by early December; the worst depletion was recorded in 1998. This month, four […]