Articles by Grist staff

The Emissionary Position

Canada Considers Adopting California Vehicle Emissions Regulations If automakers do not agree to improve the fuel efficiency of cars sold in Canada by 25 percent by 2010, the country will consider adopting California’s new law curbing carbon-dioxide emissions from automobiles, said Canada’s environment minister in a speech yesterday. Canada, unlike the U.S., signed the Kyoto […]

Liquidated

Water Privatization Sweeps World Despite Problems Water will be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th, predicted Fortune Magazine in May 2000, and it is shaping up to be a prescient claim. Multinational corporations now run the water systems that provide for 7 percent of the world’s population, with analysts expecting that […]

The Longline of the Law

Government Bans Longline Swordfishing to Protect Turtles In an effort to protect endangered sea turtles, the U.S. government has banned California’s swordfish fleet from operating in a large swath of the Pacific Ocean. The ban — announced yesterday by the National Marine Fisheries Service — applies only to “longline” fishing, in which large baited hooks […]

Same #$%@, Different Use

Scientists Turn Excrement Into Electricity — Really Scientists in the U.S. have developed a method to convert raw human waste — or as the scientists call it, “number two” — into electricity, putting a brown spin on the green-power movement. Oops, did we say “movement”? Okay, okay, we’ll try to be serious: The process works […]