Articles by Grist staff

Membership Has Its Privileges

Joining the European Union comes at a price: The 10 nations that are poised to become members next year will have to spend up to $117 billion to meet the bloc’s 149 environmental regulations, according to E.U. Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom. For the mostly poor, formerly communist nations in question, that amounts to between 2 […]

Grime Doesn’t Pay

Tiny Delaware is getting tough on crime — environmental crime, that is. Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D) and several state legislators want corporate leaders to sign annual sworn statements declaring that their companies are complying with environmental laws; if a company is then found to be in serious violation of such laws, its top management […]

Kiki Hubbard, Center for Food Safety

Kiki Hubbard is an intern at the Center for Food Safety, a nonprofit organization that addresses the impacts of our current industrial food-production system on human health, animal welfare, and the environment. Wednesday, 22 Jan 2003 WASHINGTON, D.C. I begin the day by getting lost in Arches National Monument. As I end a chapter in […]

Dam Right!

Montana Gov. Judy Martz (R) surprised her audience during last night’s State of the State address by calling for the removal of the Milltown Dam, located at the junction of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot rivers. The dam forms the Milltown Reservoir, which is contaminated with a century’s worth of heavy metals and arsenic from […]