Articles by Grist staff

League of Conservation Voters releases 2008 scorecard

The League of Conservation Voters released its 2008 scorecard Friday which rates members of Congress on their environmental votes this year. Most of the 11 scored votes in the Senate and 13 scored votes in the House were related to energy issues, but the league also looked at how congressfolk voted on climate, public lands, […]

Arctic region sees record-high autumn air temps, other changes

Autumn air temperatures in the Arctic have hit record levels — some 9 degrees Fahrenheit above normal — according to a new assessment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Researchers took a close look at the Arctic’s atmosphere, biology, land, ocean, and sea ice and concluded that “There continues to be widespread and, in […]

Snippets from the news

• European Union sticks to climate timeline amid inter-bloc grumbling; Britain wants to cut emissions 80 percent by 2050, and 15 E.U. countries are on track to meet Kyoto targets. • Council on Foreign Relations releases crisis guide to climate change. • FDA wants to identify medical devices that might contain bisphenol A. • Nevada […]

EPA not great at regulating stormwater pollution, says report

Stormwater pollution from cities and suburbs is fouling the nation’s waterways, and the U.S. EPA is failing to do much about it, says a new National Academy of Sciences report commissioned by the EPA itself. Rain and melted snow run along paved surfaces — which show up more and more frequently these days — picking […]