Articles by Grist staff

Kenya Believe This?

A court in Kenya granted environmentalists an injunction yesterday to prevent the government from clearing 167,000 acres of forestland around Mount Kenya. The decision will allow time for the enviros to file a formal case against the minister of environment. Yesterday, the enviros presented a petition to the minister signed by more than 28,000 people […]

A Left Bank

France’s Green Party is expected to play a major role in what political analysts say will be a victory for the Socialist candidate in the race for mayor of Paris this Sunday. Taking lessons from the German Green Party, the French Greens in recent years have dropped their former hippie image to curry favor with […]

Bush Takes Issue With Mentality

President Bush said this week that he’s all for allowing drilling rigs to enter parts of America’s national monuments, “where we can explore without affecting the overall environment.” Bush took issue with the “mentality that says you can’t explore and protect land,” explaining that “it all depends upon the cost-benefit ratio.” Environmentalists, needless to say, […]

Sherry, Sherry Quite Contrary

A group of Republican moderates stuck with Democratic lawmakers yesterday and submitted bills in the U.S. House and Senate to cap carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, only two days after President Bush broke a campaign promise and said he wouldn’t support such legislation. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Me.) and James Jeffords (R-Vt.) and Rep. Sherwood […]