Articles by Grist staff

Meet the New Plan, Same As the Old Plan

The story: President Bush’s plan to curb global warming, unveiled yesterday, didn’t contain many surprises. The president rejected mandatory, government-imposed limits on greenhouse gas emissions and instead said he would allocate $4.6 billion for financial incentives and new technology to combat climate change. In other words, the status would remain quo: U.S. industries could continue […]

Motor Voters

Whatever else you might have to say about the people who brought us the gas-guzzler, you can’t accuse them of not being organized: As the Beltway battle over whether to toughen fuel-economy standards heats up, General Motors has ratcheted up its offense, calling on suppliers to ask their senators to oppose stricter rules. In a […]

Plan Nein From Our Space Cadet

And the reaction: At home and abroad, the response to President Bush’s strategy for dealing with global warming was tepid at best. Pointing to counterexamples in Europe, U.S. critics disagreed with Bush’s claim that mandatory emissions limits would damage the economy and said the plan was simply a sweet deal for big business. Sen. Jim […]

Shore: Enough

An innovative if controversial bill could protect offshore waters in California from oil drilling by allowing oil companies to swap drilling claims in California for others in the Gulf of Mexico. The legislation, introduced yesterday by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), and John Breaux (D-La.), would convert 40 offshore tracts […]