Articles by Grist staff

Bill Moyers speaks his mind on Bush-brand environmental destruction and more

Bill Moyers is best known as the broadcast journalist who, for more than 20 years, has brought the public frank, soul-searching, and sometimes frightening examinations of — well, of almost everything under the sun. On air, he’s equally comfortable discussing politics or poetry, scriptures or science. Bill Moyers isn’t pulling punches. Photo: PBS. Born in […]

The Three Amigos

Three Major Companies Join Fight to Protect Tongass Office supply giant Staples and building companies KB Home and Hayward Lumber have joined with environmentalists in opposing a Bush administration proposal that would allow roads and development in southeast Alaska’s pristine Tongass National Forest. The three companies, all big users of wood products, have been working […]

Secret Disservice

Big Biz Shaped Bush Energy Plan, Congressional Investigators Say Corporations had a significant hand in formulating the Bush administration’s energy policy, but the full extent of their influence is unknown because the White House has mulishly refused to release information on the matter. That’s the word in a report released yesterday by the General Accounting […]

Read Between the Pipelines

Huge Energy Project on Russian Island Could Wreak Environmental Havoc Conservationists are warning that plans to build the world’s largest energy project — a massive pipeline and three oil-drilling platforms on and around the Russian island of Sakhalin, just north of Japan — could mean environmental disaster. The project, led by a Shell subsidiary and […]