Articles by Grist staff

Pass the Joint Venture

Ford and Toyota are considering whether to jointly produce a gas-electric hybrid in North America. No deal has been signed yet, but the two companies have already selected the kind of vehicle and the technology that would be used, says John Wallace, executive director of Ford’s alternative-propulsion division. Both companies have incentives to seal the […]

Zed, last of his species, in "Putt-Putting Green"

N'yuk, N'yuk, N'Yucca

All the effort by the feds to determine whether Nevada’s Yucca Mountain would be a suitable place to permanently store the country’s nuclear waste can be summed up as “a failed scientific process,” according to a draft report by the General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog agency. The report, which has been obtained by several […]

The Skipper Too?

The niftily named Carson wandering skipper — a butterfly that is no bigger than a thumbnail — has been given emergency protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The feds took the step yesterday to help preserve the butterfly’s habitat in two counties along the northern border of Nevada and California. Bob Williams of the […]