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Letter Rip
Leaders of green groups are pushing Pres. Clinton to put his money where his mouth is on trade and the environment. In a letter to the prez, the enviros praise his recent speeches about the importance of including environmental and labor concerns in trade matters, but they say his words have been contradicted by action […]
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Oh, We Got Trouble — With a Capital T and That Rhymes with P and That Stands for Population
Re: Daily Grist Dear Editor: What a great magazine! Now that I subscribe to the Daily Gist, I clutch my cuppa java as I pass through your cloud of gloom. Better gloom than darkness. However, I’m mystified that we don’t hear more about the big P — population. Why? All these summits, all this talk […]
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Just Plane Wrong
A British Columbia airline has gotten a slap on the wrist for refusing to sell a ticket to a Greenpeace activist. Pacific Coastal Airlines tried to defend itself by saying that it provides transportation to many loggers and logging industry employees and that having a Greenpeace worker on its plane could “compromise safety.” But the […]
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Where There's Smoke, There's Sick Kids
Mexico City residents are choking on record levels of dirty air this week, after suspended-particle pollution hit an all-time high on Monday. Outdoor activities at schools and youth sports centers were prohibited, and parents were warned to keep kids indoors. Factories in the southeastern part of the city were ordered to cut back operations by […]
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Slippery Slope
BP Exploration, a part of the oil giant BP Amoco, yesterday agreed to pay $15.5 million for failing to immediately report the illegal disposal of hazardous materials at an oil field on Alaska’s North Slope. A BP contractor dumped thousands of gallons of toxic waste at the Endicott oil field between 1993 and 1995, one […]
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No Nukes Would Be Good News
Japan’s worst nuclear accident — a September 1999 incident at a nuclear fuel plant in Tokaimura — exposed 439 people to radiation, up from a previous estimate of 69, government officials say. Greenpeace Japan thinks the new estimate is still too low. In other troubling nuclear news, Ukraine officials said yesterday that they had temporarily […]
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A Forests-Gone Conclusion
Indigenous peoples from Alaska and the Peruvian Amazon joined enviros Monday in calling on the U.N. to act quickly to stop a global crisis of deforestation. This week in New York, the U.N. opened a final session of talks on forest protection that may result in the establishment of a legally binding convention to regulate […]
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Dissed Oriente
A Manhattan federal judge says he is leaning toward ruling that an environmental lawsuit filed against Texaco by Ecuadorian Indians should be tried in Ecuador, as Texaco prefers, rather than in the U.S. But the judge will consider arguments about whether Ecuador’s courts are independent and impartial, particularly in light of the nation’s recent military […]
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Frito Be GM-Free
Frito-Lay, the big American junk food purveyor, is telling its suppliers not to use genetically modified corn, a change of course that is angering some farmers and pleasing enviros. The company said it is responding to customer worries. Opponents of genetically engineered foods have staged at least 18 night attacks on university and corporate research […]
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Raid On!
Environmental cops arrested seven dealers and rescued hundreds of animals in a weekend raid in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, part of a campaign underway to halt the massive illegal trade in tropical wildlife in the country. Four monkeys, 24 baby turtles, and 272 birds were seized at an outdoor public market and taken to the […]
