Articles by Grist staff

Pop Goes the Diesel

In the latest step in its crackdown on dirty diesel vehicles, the U.S. EPA yesterday issued a final rule that will require new diesel truck and bus engines to emit 40 percent less pollution by 2004. Later this year, the EPA intends to issue a rule that will mandate even cleaner engines by 2007 and […]

Wild Thing, I Think I'll Eat You

Afflicted by poverty and drought, millions of people in East and Southern Africa are increasingly hunting and eating wild animals and in the process endangering several hundred species, according to a report released yesterday by TRAFFIC, an international wildlife monitoring program. With the decline in numbers of traditional game species like buffalo, hunters are now […]

Skinnama-minke Minke Dink, Skinnama-minke Doo, I Love You

Norway announced yesterday that it is extending its controversial whaling season for another month because hunters have not yet filled the year’s quota of 655 minke whales. Norway conducts commercial hunts in defiance of a moratorium by the International Whaling Commission. Johan Williams of the nation’s Fisheries Ministry dismissed the possibility that failure to reach […]

General Excitement?

General Motors Corp. announced today that within a few years it will begin producing fuel-efficient, hybrid gas-electric versions of its full-size pickup trucks and city buses, just days after Ford announced its intention to boost the fuel economy of its SUVs by 25 percent over the next five years. GM Vice Chair Harry Pearce said […]