Articles by Grist staff

L.A.D.P. Green

The Los Angeles Department of Power and Water, the nation’s largest municipal utility, is leaning green. Today the department is launching a “Green Power” program that will let customers get their energy from solar, wind, and biomass power for a 6 percent rate increase. In return, customers will get price breaks and rebates on energy-efficient […]

Spoken Like an Athlete

Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Bradley, speaking to YMCA volunteers and young people in Manchester, N.H., about the environment: “My approach would be to try to clean up what is polluted and prevent what is not polluted from becoming polluted.”

A Slice of Eden Saved by Divine Intervention

Bette Midler (a.k.a. the Divine Miss M) saved the day for New York City community gardens yesterday, swooping in at the last minute with personal funds and money from her private conservation organization to buy and preserve gardens that were headed for the auction block. In all, Midler’s group and the Trust for Public Land […]

Give Me a Home Where the Stealth Bombers Roam

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is trying to stealthily hand over millions of acres of public land to the military permanently, including a southwestern Arizona bombing range that is home to endangered Sonoran pronghorn, enviros charged yesterday. McCain wants to grant the military permanent use of the 2.7 million-acre Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range in Arizona, […]