Articles by Grist staff

Gold Mettle

Eight environmental activists tonight will receive the world’s most prestigious environmental award, the Goldman Environmental Prize. Awards of $125,000 will be given to Oscar Olivera, a Bolivian labor leader working for clean and affordable water; Yosepha Alomang, an Indonesian activist trying to preserve land and culture in West Papua; Giorgos Catsadorakis and Myrsini Malakou, two […]

To Drill or Not to Drill. That Is Still the Question

Karl Rove, President Bush’s chief strategist, has told an oil industry lobbyist that Bush isn’t going to spend a lot of political capital to win congressional approval for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, reports Time magazine. Yesterday, on Earth Day, U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman said that the secretive White House energy […]

Nelson, Rockin' Fellah

Activists and Democrats took advantage of Earth Day yesterday to whale on President Bush’s environmental record. Earth Day Founder Gaylord Nelson, a former Democratic senator from Wisconsin, said, “Tragically, the president doesn’t have any interest at all in the issue.” Rep. David Bonior (Mich.), the House’s second-ranking Democrat, said in the party’s weekly radio address […]

Trading Blows Over Whether Trading Blows

As police tear gassed and fired rubber bullets and water cannons at protesters in Quebec this weekend, President Bush spoke inside the protected halls of a conference center and told the other leaders from the Western Hemisphere that “open trade must be matched by a strong commitment to protecting our environment and improving labor standards.” […]