Articles by Grist staff

Hope Against Slope

Bush admin poised to open sensitive Alaska North Slope land to drilling The Bush administration plans to open to drilling more than 400,000 acres of Alaska’s North Slope thought to be vital to migratory birds and caribou, after the Bureau of Land Management determined that drilling can be done with “minimum impact” on wildlife. Interior […]

EPA offers air-pollution immunity to factory farms

On Friday, in the shadow of the splashy presidential inauguration jamboree, the Bush EPA offered factory farms a tempting tradeoff: more than two years of immunity from the Clean Air Act and certain toxic-discharge standards in exchange for participating in a data-collection program that would monitor air emissions from their facilities. Factory farms may be […]

Jordi Honey-Rosés, WWF butterfly protector, answers questions

Jordi Honey-Rosés. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? Currently I serve as program officer in the Mexican Forest Program for World Wildlife Fund, working to protect the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico. The pine and fir forest region where I work is the winter habitat for the migratory North American monarch butterfly. […]

Readers talk back about the Christian-right take on environmentalism

  “The Godly Must Be Crazy,” Glenn Scherer’s article on right-wing Christian evangelical politicians and their hostility toward environmental protections, elicited a mighty flood of mail. Here we print a sampling of letters, followed by a response from Scherer.   Dear Editor: I am a former Republican, former Christian (go figure that one), and have […]