Articles by Grist staff

The Race Goes to the Swift

Massachusetts Acting Gov. Jane Swift (R) unveiled regulations this week that will make the state the first to limit carbon-dioxide and mercury emissions from power plants. The rules, which will go into effect in June and apply to the six dirtiest plants in the state, will also require big cuts in nitrogen oxide and sulfur […]

Bee Bop

The environmental movement has become big business, concludes the Sacramento Bee in a five-part series this week. In 1999, the most recent year for which such figures are available, the heads of nine of the country’s 10 largest environmental groups earned at least $200,000 a year; one of the big wigs earned more than $300,000. […]

No, Mobiles

The Bush administration yesterday let stand a rule approved by former President Clinton to ban snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, but it said that it hoped to craft a compromise in the near future to amend the rule and allow some snowmobile use to continue. The rule, finalized on Clinton’s last day […]

Rainbow Worriers

Wearing surgical masks to draw media attention, Greenpeace activists sailed out of Russia yesterday on a month-long crusade to raise public awareness about the problems of chemical pollution in the Baltic Sea. They will visit Estonia and other spots along the sea before arriving in Stockholm, Sweden, where officials from countries around the world are […]