Articles by Grist staff

A Thousand Points of Green

Enviro Movement Becoming Decentralized and Diversified Environmentalism is going grassroots. While two-thirds of Americans identify themselves as environmentalists, membership in big, mainstream enviro organizations stayed flat throughout the 1990s. IRS data explains why, at least in part: The number of environmental groups with an annual income of $1 million or more fell by nearly half […]

The Environment Is a Girl’s Best Friend

Renowned Jewelry Firm Speaks Out Against Mine Proposal Jewelry company Tiffany & Co. — of “Breakfast at” fame — shocked the mining industry and the Bush administration yesterday when it took out a full-page ad in The Washington Post opposing the proposed Rock Creek copper and silver mining project in Montana, which would involve tunneling […]

The Voluntary Duplicity Movement

California May Try Voluntary Fix for Dirty Diesel Engines Comedy? Tragedy? You decide. The story begins in 1998, when California regulators discovered that manufacturers of diesel engines for trucks, buses, and motor homes had been, in effect, cheating to get around clean-air rules, putting computer chips in their engines that made them behave differently when […]

You Big Baby!

Pesticide Ban Leads to Higher Baby Birth Weights A ban on two common household pesticides resulted in a striking decline in the number of underweight infants born in areas where the chemicals had been used regularly, found a study by researchers at Columbia University. In 2000, the U.S. EPA banned indoor applications of chlorpyrifos and […]