Articles by Grist staff

The (States') Right Stuff

The Supreme Court today is hearing oral arguments about a Washington state law regulating oil tankers that imposes safety and environmental guidelines more stringent than federal ones. Intertanko, an organization representing 75 percent of the world’s tanker companies, is asking the court to overturn the law, which was enacted in response to the 1989 Exxon […]

Wear Have You Been All My Life?

You don’t have to run ads with waifs in underwear to win industry recognition! Patagonia this week is receiving a prestigious apparel industry award for its work in environmental activism, the good working conditions in its overseas factories, and its innovative day-care program for workers’ children. Andree Conrad, editor of Apparel Industry Magazine, which each […]

Dealing a Wild Car

In a blow to companies that deny the seriousness of climate change, Ford Motor Co. has ended its association with the Global Climate Coalition, an industry group that vigorously opposes measures to control greenhouse gas emissions. Ford is the first major car company and first U.S. multinational to break ranks; U.K.-based Shell and British Petroleum […]

Kiss Our Ash

China plans to cut its dependence on coal from 72 percent of the country’s total energy needs today to 50 percent by 2050, a senior government official said this weekend. China, the world’s largest producer and consumer of coal, has already started to lower its coal production to some 1 billion tons this year, down […]