Articles by Grist staff

Round, Round, Get Around, I Get a Round

The latest round of World Trade Organization negotiations concluded yesterday with delegates from 142 nations agreeing to an agenda for the next round of trade talks and glossing over environmental disagreements for the moment. The agenda, which includes cutting tariffs on industrial goods, phasing out farm subsidies, reducing foreign investment barriers, and limiting anti-dumping laws, […]

You're Not Doing Fine Oklahoma

Demonstrators paraded around the annual Governor’s Water Conference in Oklahoma City yesterday to protest a deal struck behind closed doors to sell millions of gallons of water from southeastern Oklahoma to drought-stricken Texas. The deal, which is subject to approval by the Oklahoma legislature, has the backing of state officials and the Chickasaw and Choctaw […]

Oil in a Day's Work

Capitol Hill hosted competing demonstrations yesterday over proposed oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Unions reps, black and Latino business leaders, Orthodox Jews, industry bigwigs, and war veterans gathered on the Capitol lawn in Washington, D.C., to hear U.S. Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) argue that drilling in the refuge would be […]

All's Quiet on the Rocky Mountain Front

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an industry appeal of a 1997 U.S. Forest Service decision to ban oil and gas exploration on Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front, a 1.8 million-acre swath of land where the plains meet the Rocky Mountains. The area, which is home to grizzlies, wolves, and bighorn sheep, also […]