Articles by Grist staff

Finders Keepers, Polluters Weepers

Citizens across the U.S. have formed 35 “water keeper” programs, in which volunteers monitor pollution in rivers, bays, and channels and along coastlines, working to boost enforcement of environmental laws. The Clean Water Act empowers citizens to bring legal actions against polluters when local, state, and federal governments do not. The keeper programs are modeled […]

License to Kill

Police forces across England are on alert after environmentalists threatened to sabotage four new government testing sites for genetically modified crops. The British government, saying it was committed to openness in dealing with GM technology, on Monday made public on the Internet the location of the four sites, and also announced that 75 new sites […]

Paper or … Uh, Paper?

The South African government is considering a ban on plastic bags as a way to help clean up its littered streets and landscapes, Mohammed Valli Moosa, the nation’s new environment minister, said yesterday. He also said the government may impose a compulsory returnable deposit on all bottles to ensure they aren’t tossed into the street […]

Ford Cells Out

Ford Motor Co. announced yesterday that it would develop an experimental fuel-cell car powered by a hydrogen-burning internal combustion engine by year’s end. The company, which just opened a hydrogen fueling station at a Michigan research lab, said it is making progress in developing an on-board fuel processor that would generate hydrogen from gasoline, then […]