Articles by Grist staff

Maybe They Just Needed to Venti

As Starbucks executives joyously announced a stock split to shareholders during the company’s annual meeting in Seattle on Tuesday, demonstrators gathered outside the meeting and stores in 100 other U.S. cities to denounce the company’s use of genetically engineered ingredients in some products. The protesters, organized by the Organic Consumers Association, particularly object to the […]

The Tom Tom Club

Senate Democrats went on the attack yesterday, releasing an energy bill that focuses on conserving energy and boosting renewable fuels, rather than on drilling for more oil and natural gas. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) said the U.S. “cannot drill our way out of this problem” and accused President Bush of using the country’s […]

Dick Nukem

Vice President Dick Cheney said on Wednesday that the Bush administration may recommend that the U.S. expand its use of nuclear power because nuclear power plants don’t emit many greenhouse gases. “If you want to do something about carbon dioxide emissions, then you ought to build nuclear power plants,” Cheney said on MSNBC’s “Hardball” program. […]

He May Not Be Capable of High-level Dialogue

In a letter to President Bush today, European Union leaders write that progress on the Kyoto treaty on climate change is crucial to strong U.S.-European relations and that the president must find the “political courage” to move forward with treaty negotiations. The letter, signed by Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson, whose country holds the E.U. […]