Articles by Grist staff

Kawaguchi Lets the Good Times Roll

Japan’s new prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, has chosen the environment as a key policy area to focus on. Out of the gate, his environment minister, Yoriko Kawaguchi, has stressed the importance of acting to curb global warming. And Kawaguchi and Takeo Hiranuma, the country’s trade minister, planned to meet yesterday with top officials from the […]

Pesticide: Life on the Street

The amount of pesticide waste endangering people and the environment is five times greater than what had been thought only two years ago, according to a new report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. The FAO says that nearly 500,000 tons of old and unused pesticides have been left on sites that are mostly […]

It's the Stupidity, Stupid

The Bush administration engaged in a bit of greenspeak yesterday, revealing that Vice President Dick Cheney’s secretive energy task force would recommend tax credits for consumers who purchase gas-electric hybrid cars. It also said it would encourage burning biomass to produce energy. But for the most part, as Cheney himself made clear on CNN yesterday, […]

Sweet Boycotts Are Made of These

Celebrities and environmental groups in the U.K. kicked off a boycott of ExxonMobil yesterday, in protest of the company’s policy to oppose the Kyoto treaty on climate change and stall action on climate change in the U.S. Annie Lennox, Ralph Fiennes, and Bianca Jagger joined with Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and People and Planet […]