Articles by Grist staff

Putting the “Pact” in “No Impact”

Tony Blair trying to entice U.S. into “Kyoto-lite” climate treaty With much of the industrialized world heaping scorn on the U.S. for spurning the recently ratified Kyoto Protocol, the Bush administration may soon get a chance to regain a smidgeon of international cred on the climate-change issue. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in an effort […]

Royally Screwed

Oil production takes heavy toll on Nigerian villagers In the oil-rich Niger Delta, an area that produces nearly all of Nigeria’s 2.5 million barrels of oil a day, environmental degradation and political and class conflict are the prices of development. While a booming oil business has generated billions of dollars each year for the Nigerian […]

What in the Sam Hill?

Bush nominates little-known official to be energy secretary President Bush surprised D.C. insiders today by nominating a virtually unknown Treasury Department official, Sam Bodman, to serve as secretary of energy. “Sam who? I’ve never heard of this guy,” said one energy-industry lobbyist, echoing what most everyone else inside the Beltway seemed to be thinking. A […]

Downright Unalaskan

Shipwreck oil spill in Alaskan waters threatens wildlife refuge A cargo ship that ran aground Wednesday on the shore of Unalaska Island, 800 miles southwest of Anchorage, has begun to leak fuel into sensitive wildlife habitat. After an unsuccessful search for lost crew members, officials have begun to survey the damage from the wreck; the […]