Articles by Grist staff

Adding Injury to Insult

Two environmental protestors have been injured this week while trying to interfere with the gray whale hunt that the Makah native tribe in Washington state started up a few days ago. Under a 1997 deal, the U.S. is allowing the Makahs to kill up to five gray whales a year. In a highly publicized and […]

Extra Credit

A World Bank emissions trading program that will finance clean energy projects in developing countries has generated more money and more government and corporate interest than expected, and the bank hopes to expand it. About $135 million has been pledged to the program by 15 corporations, including BP Amoco and six Japanese electric power companies, […]

Spencer for Hire

From 1995 to 2000, the auto industry gave more than twice as much in campaign contributions to senators who voted against possible new fuel efficiency standards as it gave to senators who voted for them, according to a new report by the group Public Campaign. Since 1997, auto manufacturers, dealers, and unions have donated nearly […]

Rudolph, the Brown-Nosed Rainmaker?

Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday called on her opponent in the New York Senate race, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (R), to return a $100,000 soft-money donation from a company she called the “number-one polluter in America.” The money was donated by the Renco Group, which owns a Utah company that federal officials have identified […]