Articles by Grist staff

Green Dawn

Activists work to form Green Party in Russia A group of environmental activists and scientists is seeking to create a Green political party in Russia, expressing high hopes despite considerable hurdles. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia’s environmental situation has gone from bad to worse. Environmental standards are among the world’s lowest, the […]

Pork-laden corporate tax bill socks it to the environment

Oink, oink. The monstrous corporate tax legislation that recently sailed through Congress — passing in the Senate 69-17 last Monday, only days after it passed in the House — has given the environmental community a terrible case of Coulda-Been-Worse Syndrome. “We’re well aware that this bill reflects the kind of sausage-making, vote-building, pigs-at-the-trough mentality that […]

Ban Ban

Federal judge repeals Clinton snowmobile ban The latest chapter has opened in what has become a sort of mini-Iliad for our times: the battle over snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. On Friday, a federal judge in Wyoming, Clarence Brimmer, struck down the ban on snowmobiles in the parks put in place toward […]

Grateful Deadlock

Congressional paralysis dooms environmental legislation Partisan bickering and electioneering in Washington, D.C., have led to an impasse on nearly all environmental legislation in Congress the past two years — bills that enviros love as well as ones they hate. Other than the “Healthy Forests” initiative and a piece of brownfields funding, Congress has been deadlocked […]