Articles by Grist staff

Breathe, Breathe in the Air, Don't Be Afraid to Care

The European Commission yesterday launched a three-year investigation into how Europe can better combat air pollution. Many of the European Union’s existing air-quality rules are due to be revised in 2004, and the Clean Air for Europe investigation will provide the framework for new clean-air standards and national emissions caps. The probe will focus especially […]

I'm Gonna Git You Sucker

More than 15,000 farmers and their supporters gathered yesterday in Klamath Falls, Ore., near the California border, to protest the loss of irrigation water to fish protected by the Endangered Species Act. The protesters formed a one-and-half-mile-long bucket brigade down the city’s main street, passing 50 pails of water from the Upper Klamath Lake into […]

Forward, Marsh

Wisconsin yesterday became the first state to put into law a stronger set of protections for wetlands just four months after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling removed federal safeguards from isolated wetlands that provide habitat for migrating birds. The court decision in January had left vulnerable 4.2 million acres of isolated wetlands in the state […]

Full Metalclad Racket

A judge in British Columbia ruled last week that a NAFTA tribunal was right to award millions of dollars to a U.S. company that was prevented from opening a hazardous waste treatment plant in Mexico. Justice David Tysoe of the Supreme Court of B.C. found that the move by the state government of San Luis […]