Articles by Grist staff

A Clean Slade?

Conservative Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) has entered into an odd alliance with the Sierra Club to push for higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light trucks. At a press conference last Thursday, Gorton was joined by Sierra Club official Dan Becker and Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) and Richard Bryan (Nev.) in pushing a resolution […]

Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise

The U.S. EPA and the Energy Department summoned executives from the nation’s biggest oil companies to Washington, D.C., yesterday to make them explain why gas prices are rising markedly in the Midwest, all but accusing the companies of price gouging. The EPA doesn’t buy the oil industry’s excuse that prices are as high as $2 […]

Maine Squeeze

Under pressure from a lawsuit filed by enviros, the federal government has agreed to make a decision by Nov. 17 on whether to list Atlantic salmon in Maine rivers as endangered. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been dithering over the question, though Atlantic salmon populations have been in severe decline for years. In […]

Hannah Stewart, Aquarius Underwater Laboratory

Hannah Stewart is the controlled flow environment specialist on the mission at Aquarius, where a team of six aquanauts will spend nine days in the underwater laboratory 63 feet below the ocean’s surface in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Tuesday, 13 Jun 2000 CONCH REEF, Fla CONCH REEF, Fla. Woke up this morning after feeling […]