Articles by Grist staff

The Question Is, Is Our Roads Building?

The Bush administration indicated on Friday that it is looking for ways to roll back rules approved by the Clinton administration to ban road-building and logging on a third of the country’s national forests. In one of his first acts in office, President Bush put off the date the rules would come into effect until […]

The Spruce Goose

In a rare success story, U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton is announcing today that the Aleutian Canada goose, once thought to be extinct, has recovered and no longer needs to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. The goose population has grown from only hundreds in the late-1960s to 37,000 today. Norton attributes the recovery […]

Delta Dawn, What's That Oil Spill You've Got on

The Niger River Delta — 42,000 square miles of wetland that is home to 7 million Nigerians — has been ravaged by five multinational oil companies extracting 2 million barrels of crude oil per day from the area. From 1986 to 1996, oil spills equal to 10 Exxon Valdez disasters fouled rivers and jungles in […]

Eric Britton, Earth Car Free Day

Eric Britton is an international consultant, author, and founder of The Commons, a Paris-based nonprofit organization cosponsoring Earth Car Free Day. Monday, 19 Mar 2001 PARIS, France On 19 Apr., Earth Car Free Day 2001 is going to take another whack at the catastrophic problems behind global warming. And this time, it is quite possible […]