Articles by Grist staff

He's All Business

President Bush is expected to nominate James Connaughton, a lawyer who has represented General Electric and Atlantic Richfield in suits against the U.S. EPA over Superfund cleanups, to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality. He wants Linda Fisher, who leads Monsanto’s government affairs office, to be second-in-command at the U.S. EPA. He has […]

No More Terra Yucky

Japan has just enacted the most comprehensive appliance recycling law in Asia. Three hundred million appliances are now in use in the country, and about 18 million appliances get tossed each year. Starting this month, consumers must pay to have, say, a refrigerator or a washing machine recycled. Previously, it cost nothing to send an […]

The Sting-y

Faced with rising gasoline prices, some Americans are trading in their SUVs and gas-guzzling cars for gas-stingy vehicles. The trend, if it holds, would be good news for the environment. The U.S. could reduce its crude-oil imports by 170,000 barrels a day — 62.05 million barrels a year — if consumers switched from SUVs to […]

All the Anti-president's Men

Robert Redford, in a letter made public on Friday, has royally dissed an invitation from U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton to attend a press event with her later this month to release a California condor into the wild. Norton invited Redford after learning that he was critical of her policies. She noted that he had […]