Articles by Grist staff

Terroriffic!

Environmentalists have stepped in where the feds feared to tread, publishing on the Internet information about the risks of chemical accidents in the U.S., including state-by-state summaries of potential “worst-case scenarios.” The information was provided to the EPA by thousands of companies, but a new federal law prevents the agency from posting the info on […]

Bill Clinton, Weather Vane for Trade Winds

Pres. Clinton yesterday warned business and political leaders that they need to address the environmental and social concerns of average citizens as they pursue a more open trading system, a call that comes as environmentalists, labor unions, and a host of other groups make plans to demonstrate against the World Trade Organization during its upcoming […]

Food Not Fit for a Dog

U.S. farmers are in a near panic because of growing uncertainty over genetically modified crops, and the American Corn Growers Association has even claimed that multinational seed and chemical companies “misled” farmers by encouraging them to plant millions of acres without warning them that the crops don’t have consumer acceptance. In the past month, Japan’s […]

Pop Goes the Treaty

Negotiators from 115 countries have reached tentative agreement to end the production of eight dangerous chemicals as early as 2003 or 2004, when an international treaty on phasing out the use of 12 persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is set to come into force. After six days of negotiations that ended on Saturday, the biggest unresolved […]