Articles by Grist staff

In film short, Mark Dowie plugs plan to boost funding for grassroots activism

Mark Dowie, a prizewinning investigative journalist, was talking about the need to revamp American environmentalism long before the Reapers declared it dead. His Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1996 book Losing Ground cast a critical eye on green activists’ failing tactics, and his more recent work — encapsulated in a film short below — focuses on myopic environmental […]

We All Go Down Together

FBI calls “eco-terrorists” top domestic threat; Inhofe licks his chops The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee convened a hearing on “eco-terrorism” yesterday, anxious to warn the nation of a rising danger that has already killed … well, nobody. Despite the unimpressive body count, a growing number of property crimes make fringe ecological and animal-rights […]

That’s Hot

States sue EPA over new mercury rules and the “hot spots” they’ll create A coalition of 11 states filed suit against the U.S. EPA in federal court yesterday, charging that the agency’s recently issued mercury emissions rules, which establish a “cap and trade” system whereby coal-fired power plants can trade pollution credits, pose an unacceptable […]

Soy Triste

Brazil’s rainforest keeps getting gobbled up More than 10,000 square miles of Amazon rainforest disappeared from Brazil in 2004, the second-highest level of deforestation ever recorded, thanks mainly to the expansion of soy farming. As U.S.-state comparisons are de rigueur in these stories: that’s an area the size of Massachusetts. Though Brazil’s government implemented a […]