Articles by Grist staff

Bureau of Land Manglement

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management granted permission yesterday to the Marine Corps to conduct two weeks of military exercises in the Arizona desert in late April and early May. Environmentalists are worried that tortoises and rare desert plants might be casualties of the Marine exercises. Known as Desert Scimitar ’02, the mission will test […]

Paper Late

Last night, the U.S. Energy Department released 11,000 pages of documents pertaining to the drafting of the Bush administration’s energy policy, just hours before a court-ordered deadline to turn over the papers. An initial review of the documents confirmed the suspicion of environmental organizations and Democrats that the Bush administration relied almost entirely on meetings […]

Park and Writhe

Air pollution, development, and funding cuts are just some of the problems facing the U.S. national parks system, according to the National Parks Conservation Association’s annual report on the country’s 10 most endangered parks. The diversion of water from the Rio Grande and air pollution from Mexico are threatening Big Bend National Park in Texas, […]

Sally Bingham, The Regeneration Project

Sally Bingham is the director of The Regeneration Project. She is a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of California and the environmental minister at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Monday, 25 Mar 2002 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. When you are an active priest in the Episcopal Diocese of California and the director of a not-for-profit business, […]