Articles by Grist staff

Bush admin gets senior-itis, says it won’t decide on emissions before term ends

EPA head Stephen Johnson. Photo: epa.gov Instead of deciding whether greenhouse-gas emissions endanger human health and welfare and formulating standards to reduce them — as the Supreme Court ordered — the EPA will run out the clock for the next few months soliciting more public comment. The Supreme Court ordered the EPA last year to […]

Snippets from the news

• Toyota will build Prius in U.S., suspend truck production. • Biggest U.S. photovoltaic plant to be built in Florida. • Delta smelt may go on endangered list. • New federal rules proposed for offshore fish farms. • Eco-nightclub opens in London.

Your windows could collect solar energy, says study

Have windows? Then you could collect solar energy, says a new study published in the journal Science. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a light-absorbing dye that, when painted on a window, transfers energy via the glass into solar cells at the window’s edges (through a process we don’t pretend to understand). […]

G8 nations agree to cut emissions 50 percent by 2050, presidential campaign ads go on attack over en

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