Articles by Grist staff

Slick Move, EPA

If climate change isn’t reason enough for you to want to give the boot to fossil fuels, take this: Koch Industries, one of the largest U.S. pipeline operators, has been fined $35 million by the EPA for spilling 3 million gallons of oil into lakes and streams in six states, the largest civil fine ever […]

May We Take Your Order?

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) is drafting an executive order that would require the state government to conduct its business in an environmentally sustainable manner, another step forward in a state that passed the nation’s first bottle recycling bill and is known for its progressive land-use planning. The details of the executive order have yet […]

Star Fleet

Southern California air quality officials have proposed a controversial plan to gradually replace the 62,000 cars and trucks in government-owned fleets with state-of-the-art vehicles powered by electricity, natural gas, or other clean-burning fuels. The proposal by the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the first of its kind in the nation, would affect everything from […]

This Time We Really, Really Mean It — Really

A worldwide rise in Earth’s surface temperatures is “undoubtedly real” and appears to have sped up over the last 20 years, according to a major new report released yesterday by a panel of the National Research Council. The panel estimated that temperatures over the last century rose between 0.7 and 1.4 degrees F, a 30 […]