Articles by Grist staff

That Doesn’t Even Make Fence

Border fence construction may bypass environmental laws It’s hard to think of a worse idea than building a 700-mile border fence between the U.S. and Mexico, but here’s a shot: building a border fence without abiding by the Endangered Species Act, Federal Water Pollution Control Act, or National Environmental Policy Act. Yet on Monday, Homeland […]

No One Anticipated the Breach of the Royalties

U.S. Interior Department knew about drilling loophole for years We’re beginning to detect a pattern among Bush administration responses to huge fusterclucks. It seems U.S. Interior Department officials who said they’d learned only last year that oil companies were avoiding billions of dollars in royalty payments have (surprise!) known about the problem for a while. […]

California to reduce carbon from fuels, 2006 hottest year in Lower 48, and more

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Boise Will Be Boys

As feds prepare to delist gray wolf in Idaho and Montana, hunters polish their rifles In Idaho and Montana, the impending removal of Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf has sportsfolk salivating. The wolf, reintroduced to the region a decade ago, is blamed for killing elk and other critters that hunters want around […]