Articles by Grist staff

No Respect

In a report released yesterday, the Governmental Affairs Committee of the U.S. Senate accused the Bush administration of “a predetermined hostility” toward environmental regulations initiated by former President Clinton. The withering 90-page assessment of President Bush’s actions questioned the legality of a 60-day freeze, issued hours after Bush took office, affecting all pending federal environmental […]

Electric Avenues?

What do Detroit billionaires do with their cash after they retire from the upper echelons of the auto industry? The answer, in the cases of Lee Iacocca and Robert Stempel, may surprise you: They start electric-car companies. Stempel, the former head of General Motors, helped create the emissions-reducing catalytic converter in 1966 and has always […]

Hot Pea Soup

Fog and rain are as much a part of London as bobbies and Buckingham Palace — but global warming will change all that over the next half-century, according to a newly released report on the anticipated impacts of climate change on the U.K. capital. The London of the future will likely be sunnier, but don’t […]

Fly the Unfriendly Skies

One-fourth of all North American bird species are at risk, according to a new study released by the National Audubon Society. The report blames increased urbanization and the resulting loss of open spaces for the decline; as cities grow, farmlands are converted to urban areas and grasslands are converted to farmlands, leaving birds with insufficient […]