Articles by Grist staff

Amazon Painforest

Outrage is brewing among human rights organizations and environmental advocates over the murder of Brazilian environmental and labor leader Ademir Federicci. Federicci, one of seven environmental, labor, or religious leaders to be murdered in the Amazon Basin since July, was the director of the Movement for the Development of the Trans-Amazon and the Xingu. At […]

Our Hero, Teijiro

After months of ambivalence, the Japanese government is poised to seek ratification of the Kyoto treaty on climate change. Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Teijiro Furukawa plans to meet later this month with other senior government officials to make arrangements for a vote on ratification, which will probably be introduced during a regular Diet session beginning […]

Jim DiPeso, Republicans for Environmental Protection

Jim DiPeso is communications director for Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP America), which works to make natural resource conservation and sound environmental protection fundamental elements of the Republican Party’s vision for America. Monday, 15 Oct 2001 MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. It can be tough being the last speaker at a daylong conference. You have to approach […]

Golden State Warrior

It was a sunny weekend for environmentalists in California, where Gov. Gray Davis (D) signed into law a measure closing a loophole that developers have exploited to avoid development restrictions and jack up property values. The loophole enabled developers to subdivide properties based on out-of-date land maps. Conservationists often wound up paying inflated prices to […]