Articles by Grist staff

Rock the House

In a series of votes that weren’t even close, the Republican-controlled House took steps yesterday to block the Bush administration’s plans for oil and gas drilling on natural monuments, delay the sale of oil-drilling leases off the coast of Florida, and prevent the rollback of tougher regulations for hard-rock mining on federal land. The House […]

Enemy Mine

Hundreds of local residents of a fishing village blocked Peru’s main north-south highway with boulders this week to protest a major new copper and zinc mine. Juan Pacifico, the mayor of Huarmey, which is about 90 miles north of Lima, says the villagers aren’t convinced that adequate environmental protections are in place for the Antamina […]

Ethanol for Naught

The Bush administration has prepared a report for Congress that recommends continuing federal incentives for ethanol-fuel vehicles — even though the report also found that the program has failed to meet either of its goals of reducing gasoline consumption and increasing the use of alternative fuels. Under the program, automakers that produce vehicles that can […]

Dork Kempthorne

Ceding to the concerns of the state of Idaho, U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton moved yesterday to abandon plans to reintroduce grizzly bears into the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana and Idaho. Grizzlies have been removed from 98 percent of their historic range and only 1,000 or so remain south of Canada. The Clinton administration’s reintroduction […]