Articles by Grist staff

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 […]

Well, at Least He Keeps Some of His Promises

White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer said yesterday that U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman had spoken in “confusion” on Sunday when she announced that Vice President Dick Cheney’s secretive energy task force would not recommend oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Fleischer went on to directly contradict Whitman, saying that the task force […]

Funereal Disease

Pyres of animals being burnt in the U.K. because of the foot-and-mouth disease are producing more dioxin than all of the country’s factories combined. The burning has put the country on pace to double its annual dioxin emissions. Meanwhile, the government has admitted that it hasn’t conducted an assessment of the health effects of the […]