Articles by Grist staff

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 […]

Air Apparent

Bush Admin. Lacked Data to Support Relaxing Emissions Rules, GAO Found And that’s not all the GAO’s been up to. In a report released yesterday, the agency determined that the Bush administration had no real evidence to back up its claims that loosening air pollution rules for industrial plants would lower emissions and reduce health […]

Shale Maulana, Center for Environmental Citizenship

Shale Maulana is Northwest summit coordinator for the Center for Environmental Citizenship and a student and activist at Seattle Central Community College. Monday, 25 Aug 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. This summer, I’m interning with the Center for Environmental Citizenship (EnviroCitizen), helping to organize a student summit, “Powered By Justice: Skills to Build Energy Alternatives.” It’s a […]