Articles by Grist staff

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 […]

Species Reasoning

House Committee Passes Two Bills Weakening Endangered Species Act The House Resources Committee voted yesterday to pass two bills that could make listing species under the Endangered Species Act considerably more difficult. Both were shepherded through by the committee’s chair, Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.). The first bill, sponsored by Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.), would stipulate […]

Forward, Marsh!

Big Wetlands Restoration Effort Begins in San Francisco Bay This week saw the kickoff of the third-largest wetlands restoration project in the U.S., and the largest in the West, in San Francisco Bay, where tidal flows will be returned to 16,500 acres of salt ponds over the course of 30 years. The South Bay Salt […]

Dems block anti-enviro Bush judicial nominee, and the conservatives are lovin’ it

When Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) fell seven votes short on Tuesday of forcing a confirmation vote on Bush judicial nominee William G. Myers III — widely considered the most anti-environment judicial candidate Bush has ever put forward — it might have seemed like a big blow to the GOP. But Frist and his […]