Articles by Kate Sheppard
Kate Sheppard was previously Grist's political reporter. She now covers energy and the environment for The Huffington Post. Follow her on Twitter.
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Come hang out with us in Austin
Any readers planning to travel to Netroots Nation should be sure to check out Grist’s Austin offerings. We’re partnering with ReGeneration.org to produce video from the event, and we’ll have a booth in the exhibitors’ hall where you can come register to win a Dell Inspiron laptop. Our videos will be posted both here and […]
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Bush to lift executive ban on offshore drilling signed by his father
President George Bush will announce this afternoon that he is lifting the executive ban on offshore drilling that has been in place since his father, George H.W. Bush, signed an executive order as president in 1990. The move is mostly symbolic, however. Unless Congress repeals its long-standing ban on offshore drilling, nothing will change. The […]
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California governor says he’d be willing to serve in Obama’s cabinet
On ABC’s “This Week” yesterday, California’s Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a McCain supporter, suggested that he’d be willing to serve as “energy czar” for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Host George Stephanopoulos asked the governor about a report that he attributed to Newsweek that said Obama would consider Schwarzenegger for a cabinet post, possibly one […]
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A weekly roundup of greenish news from the capitol
• According to a new EPA analysis, the “value of a statistical life” is now worth $6.9 million, which is nearly $1 million less than it was five years ago. This is important politically because when government agencies create regulations about things like air pollution, they use this statistical value to weigh the costs against […]
