Articles by Grist staff

The Trash Money Crew

New Orleans garbage will fill at least 3.5 million truckloads We’d hate to be the ones tasked with separating out the recycling: Cleaning up New Orleans will involve hauling 22 million tons of garbage and waste that have been moldering in the heat and damp since late August’s Hurricane Katrina, including rotting food, ruined furniture, […]

Trunk’d

As USFS suspends many activity permits, enviros say it’s playing games The U.S. Forest Service has suspended permits for 1,436 activities in national forests nationwide, from cutting the U.S. Capitol’s Christmas tree to guiding hunting and fishing trips. It claims it’s just complying with a court order, but eco-advocates say the agency is intentionally stirring […]

And the Land Played On

Judge rules Oregon’s Measure 37 unconstitutional Oregon’s voter-approved Measure 37, which would mandate that private landowners be compensated for changes in their property value brought about by state land-use decisions, has been ruled unconstitutional by Marion County Circuit Judge Mary James. Oregon was widely seen as a national model in land-use planning, pushing new development […]

Phil Brick, environmental politics professor, answers questions

Phil Brick. What work do you do? I am professor of politics and codirector of environmental studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. I am also the founder and director of an environmental-studies field program, Whitman College Semester in the West, a three-month field tour focusing on the political, ecological, and human dimensions of […]