Articles by Grist staff

Jacques Be Nimble

French President Jacques Chirac was expected to woo green voters today and propose that the public be granted a constitutional right to a clean environment. In a speech released ahead of time, Chirac was planning to call on parliament to draft language for the French Constitution that would put environmental protections “on a par with […]

Green Berets

After spending 12 million dollars, the U.S. Army has come up with a nifty new something — a more eco-friendly bullet (rad!) that is just as effective at killing as past lead-based ones. The “green ammunition” uses a less toxic tungsten composite that the Army says will significantly reduce the soil contamination caused each year […]

The Political Climate Is Changing, Too

The coal and utility industries are lobbying Vice President Dick Cheney’s secretive energy task force to ease a clean-air rule so that major upgrades can be made at power plants without setting in motion tough pollution-control requirements. The Clinton-era U.S. EPA sued eight big utilities for upgrading power plants without also improving pollution controls. But […]

Log Rolling

Twenty Republicans in the U.S House, led by Reps. Sherwood Boehlert (N.Y.) and Constance Morella (Md.), joined with more than 100 Democrats yesterday in asking President Bush not to roll back the plan approved by the Clinton administration to ban road-building and logging on 58.5 million acres of national forestland. Boehlert said, “I believe our […]