Articles by Grist staff

Truck Trick

Automakers are planning to introduce as many as two dozen small sport-utility-like vehicles with car-based designs in the coming years and ask that they be classified as light trucks, a designation that has lower fuel-efficiency requirements. The new designs look like hybrids of SUVs, minivans, and cars. While the new vehicles get worse gas mileage […]

Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect All of World Agriculture

Using a new weapon to fight biotechnology, activists announced yesterday that they plan to file antitrust lawsuits in 30 countries accusing major biotech firms, grain traders, and grain processors of using genetic engineering to gain control of world agriculture. Jeremy Rifkin, director of the Foundation on Economic Trends, said the legal actions are intended to […]

How Much Wood Would WTO Chuck, If WTO Could Chuck Wood Tariffs?

Enviros will take a swing at “free trade” today, releasing a report warning that the World Trade Organization may weaken forest protections this fall. The report argues that a U.S. proposal for zero tariffs on forest products would push logging up some 3 to 4 percent worldwide. The report, written primarily by staffers from the […]

Et Tu, FoE?

Friends of the Earth will stick it to Al Gore today when the group’s political action committee announces that it will back Bill Bradley, Gore’s rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. The group notes that Bradley’s voting record in Congress got a higher rating than Gore’s from the League of Conservation Voters — 85 percent […]