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Interesting Stuff That Transpired During Our Publishing Break We’re back, rested, and raring to go! While we were gone: The public comment period on the U.S. EPA’s proposed new mercury […]

Tigris, Tigris, Burning Blight

Iraq’s Once-Mighty Tigris River in Sad Shape Iraq’s Tigris River is horrendously polluted and may be poisoning Iraqis, but no one is sure just how bad the problem is — […]

Guns and Butterflies

Mexican Butterfly Forest Site of Battle Over Deforestation Mexico’s most famous national park, the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, is home to a 10,000-year-old evergreen forest where huge clouds of orange […]

Readers sound off on eco-jobs, old growth, and more

  Kicking Peterson’s Tongass Re: Shake Dat Tongass Dear Editor: U.S. Representative John Peterson (R-Penn.), who commented that old-growth forests don’t support the kind of wildlife he and his fellow […]

Public Disservice Announcement

New EPA Ad Mocks Car Energy Efficiency Automobile fuel efficiency is for losers! This message brought to you by, believe it or not, the U.S. EPA. A new series of […]

Japan-Ease

Japan Weathers High Oil Prices With Energy Efficiency The high price of oil has many countries — including the U.S. — casting about for ways to lower the cost, increase […]

Dispensing With the Peasantries

Electricity Comes to Rural China China’s economy is exploding, with consequences that may only be understood decades from now. In addition to massive hydropower ventures — like the $25 billion […]

Don’t Hiatus Because We’re Beautiful

Grist on a Two-Week Publishing Hiatus Astute readers will have noticed our abject failure to say anything even remotely funny in today’s Daily Grist and wondered, “What’s up?” What’s up […]

Un-Cheneyed Melody

Supreme Court Sends Cheney Energy Task Force Case Back to Lower Court In a clear political victory for the White House, today the U.S. Supreme Court set aside a ruling […]

Jolly Good, Guv’nors

Western Governors Adopt Ambitious Renewable Energy Goals Western governors agreed this week to a resolution calling for development of renewable energy in the region, a plan they hope will stabilize […]