Articles by Grist staff

The Voluntary Duplicity Movement

California May Try Voluntary Fix for Dirty Diesel Engines Comedy? Tragedy? You decide. The story begins in 1998, when California regulators discovered that manufacturers of diesel engines for trucks, buses, and motor homes had been, in effect, cheating to get around clean-air rules, putting computer chips in their engines that made them behave differently when […]

You Big Baby!

Pesticide Ban Leads to Higher Baby Birth Weights A ban on two common household pesticides resulted in a striking decline in the number of underweight infants born in areas where the chemicals had been used regularly, found a study by researchers at Columbia University. In 2000, the U.S. EPA banned indoor applications of chlorpyrifos and […]

GOP pollster says voters want action on clean water

Some like it clean. Polling guru and GOP spinmeister Frank Luntz has uncovered a fact likely to rattle and bewilder some Republicans in Congress: Americans prefer clean water. An emphatic memo [PDF] sent out by the Luntz Research Companies in February spotlighted Americans’ intense feelings on the subject: Young and old, Democrat AND Republican, the […]

Dispatches from a U.N. population meeting in the Big Apple

Caron Whitaker manages the Population & Environment Program at the National Wildlife Federation. This week she is attending a U.N. meeting to mark the 10th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development. Wednesday, 24 Mar 2004 New York, N.Y. Government delegates from 41 countries are convening this week at the United Nations headquarters […]