Articles by Grist staff

Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise

A House-Senate conference committee yesterday dropped from a major budget bill a controversial provision that could have opened the way for oil and gas drilling in part of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The measure, approved by the Senate last week, assumed that $1.2 billion would be raised from a lease sale of drilling rights […]

Wind Without Sales

Construction is set to begin today on seven towering windmills that together will constitute the largest wind power project in the Eastern U.S. Most wind farms in the nation have been built by utilities, but this $16 million project planned for the rural town of Madison, N.Y., is being built on speculation, without a guaranteed […]

Book 'Em

Vice President Al Gore, in a new foreword to his 1992 book Earth in the Balance, renews his call to eliminate all internal combustion engines and take dramatic steps to curb global warming. Gore’s best-selling book is being reissued next week to mark the 30th anniversary of the first Earth Day, and some Republicans are […]

Spencer for Higher

Greenpeace is claiming moral victory after 13.5 percent of votes cast at BP Amoco’s annual shareholders meeting yesterday supported a Greenpeace-backed resolution that calls on the company to stop oil drilling in the Arctic and increase investment in solar energy. The motion was defeated, as expected, but the level of support it garnered surprised even […]