Articles by Grist staff

California Greenin’

Poll Shows Californians as Green as Ever California has long been ahead of the curve on environmental policy, and a new poll points to the reason: Citizens demand it. A poll released this week by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, based on more than 2,500 responses from speakers of five different languages, reveals […]

Whale Supplies Last

Anti-Whaling Countries Beat Back Pro-Whaling Plan Staunchly anti-whaling nations, led by Australia and New Zealand, scored a small victory yesterday at the conclusion of the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission, staving off plans for a vote next year that could have opened the door for lifting the 18-year-old ban on commercial whaling. Pro-whaling […]

Tribal Thumping

Tribe Sues Canadian Company Under U.S. Superfund Law Washington state’s Colville Confederated Tribes announced a lawsuit this week against Teck Cominco Metals Ltd., seeking to force the smelter to comply with a U.S. EPA order to pay for environmental study of the pollution it has discharged into the Columbia River over the decades. Now, normally […]

Royal Blush

Greenpeace Charged With Violating Alaskan Environmental Law Greenpeace had an embarrassing moment yesterday: Alaskan officials slapped the eco-activist group with criminal charges for sending a ship into state waters without submitting the required oil-spill prevention documents. The vessel, the Arctic Sunrise, is carting 27 activists around Southeast Alaska to protest logging in the Tongass National […]