Articles by Grist staff

Bush admin takes first step toward new offshore drilling

The Bush administration took the first step toward new offshore drilling on Thursday, asking for public comments on a proposal to potentially open up an area to drilling some 50 miles off the Virginia coast. Even if leasing is ultimately approved, the area wouldn’t be leased until 2011 at the earliest, according to the Interior […]

Air pollution in California costly and deadly, study says

The polluted air in Los Angeles and California’s San Joaquin Valley costs residents and government some $28 billion annually in health-care and other expenses and kills more people than all the car accidents in those areas, according to a study by researchers at California State University, Fullerton.

Nonbinding agreement reached to breach Klamath River dams by 2020

A nonbinding agreement is set to be signed today to breach four Klamath River dams by 2020 that have been messing with imperiled salmon. source:

Lots of natural gas is chillin’ on Alaska’s North Slope, says USGS

There’s enough natural gas frozen 2,000 feet below the permafrost on Alaska’s icy North Slope to heat 100 million homes for up to a decade, the U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday. Look alive, Palin pipeline!