Articles by Grist staff

Philippine Philippic

Illegal logging in Philippines contributes to flood devastation Recent storms in the Philippines have wreaked havoc on the country, with hundreds killed or missing in landslides and floods, and enviros and government officials are both taking aim at what they call a principal culprit: illegal logging. Though unusually high rainfall and the geography of the […]

The LNG and Short of It

States express outrage at LNG provision hidden in omnibus spending bill Deep in the 3,016-page, $388-billion omnibus spending bill recently approved by Congress, tucked away in a section on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission salaries and expenses, is a provision stating that the feds — not individual states — get to decide where liquid natural gas […]

Hull to Pay

Delaware River oil spill elicits new criticism of single-hulled oil tankers Last weekend’s oil spill on the Delaware River — which U.S. Coast Guard officials now say may be considerably worse than previously estimated, involving up to 473,500 gallons of crude — is drawing attention to single-hulled oil tankers. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) calls them […]

Señor Ahab

Japan accused of buying pro-whaling votes Last year, Nicaragua became yet another unlikely nation to join the International Whaling Commission, just in time to attend the group’s annual meeting and support the lifting of an 18-year moratorium on commercial whale hunting — a policy change aggressively pushed by Japan, but not yet achieved. Japanese officials […]