Articles by Grist staff

Move Your Bloomin’ Ash

Curbing air pollution from coal plants can lead to more ash in landfills The growing pressure to clean up emissions from coal-fired power plants is good for air quality, but it’s got a sooty lining: pollution capture could end up filling landfills with millions more tons of toxic ash. More than one-third of the ash […]

Radioactive Flyer

International safeguards for nuclear materials are flawed, says report As nuclear energy enjoys a renaissance as a touted climate-change fix, a new report identifies significant flaws in the international safeguards meant to keep nuclear materials in reactors (as opposed to, say, the hands of illegal bomb makers). A two-year study by the Nonproliferation Policy Education […]

Bush admin to make mountaintop-removal mining easier, and more

Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: No Peaking Lower the Pollution and Back Away Slowly We Put the Unclear in Nuclear Refine! Be That Way! All Pact and Ready to Go The Invisible Hand Drops Its Harpoon Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Looking for a Miracle […]

U.N.-initiated climate-change meeting kicks off

Some one thousand representatives of government, industry, and research institutions from more than 150 countries came together in Vienna today to kick off a United Nations-initiated week-long hobnob on WTF Should We Do About Climate Change. We’re betting relatively little of substance will come out of it, but check in for updates as the week […]