Articles by Grist staff

The Big Chill

Snowmobiles are getting a chilly reception in Yellowstone National Park, with more than 80 percent of public comments supporting the Clinton administration’s plan for phasing out the noisy, polluting vehicles. Last year, the National Park Service decided to eliminate snowmobiles in the park, beginning with a 50 percent reduction by the winter of 2002-03 and […]

Log-gonnit

A coalition of 13 environmental groups kicked off a campaign yesterday to halt all old-growth logging on federal lands, reinvigorating an often bitter battle between environmentalists and loggers in the Pacific Northwest. Logging on federal lands has declined substantially in the last decade, and now accounts for less than 2 percent of the Northwest’s economy. […]

I Can Believe I Hate the Hole Thing

There’s good news and bad news in the ozone hole department this year. The good news is that the hole, which forms over the Antarctic in the Southern Hemisphere spring, has shrunk somewhat compared to last year’s all-time high, from 11.6 million square miles (three time the size of the U.S.) to about 10 million […]

The Yellow Haze of Texas

A plan to cut air pollution dramatically in Houston by 2007 was approved by the U.S. EPA yesterday. If successful, the plan will bring the city into compliance with the federal Clean Air Act for the first time. The plan lowers speed limits, mandates stricter vehicle exhaust testing, and calls for a 90 percent decrease […]