Articles by Grist staff

Taipei Personalities

About 10,000 Taiwanese who don’t want construction to resume on Taiwan’s fourth nuclear power plant marched in protest through Taipei this weekend, calling for a national referendum on the issue. The plant, already one-third complete, was initiated by the Nationalist Party, which still holds a significant majority in the legislature despite losing the presidency to […]

Second Class Citizen

Al Gore spent his second class as a professor at Columbia University’s journalism school focusing on how the media cover global warming. Before the class, students were given materials suggesting that the vast majority of the world’s climate scientists believe global warming is occurring, and they were asked questions like, “Is it your view that […]

In the Driver's Seat

With buddies of the auto industry now in charge of the White House, automakers said last week that they will no longer lobby to freeze federal fuel-efficiency standards. The Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards have remained unchanged since 1975, and the industry until last year had been successful in blocking the Clinton administration from even […]

What's Good for G.M. Is Bad for California

General Motors sued California on Friday to overturn the state’s zero-emissions-vehicle mandate, which requires automakers to produce a limited number of ZEV vehicles in 2003 and increase the number in following years. The lawsuit claims that the California Air Resources Board didn’t take seriously automakers’ concerns about the mandate’s cost or consider a reasonable alternative […]