Articles by Grist staff

Butter Fly-cicles

The deaths of millions of monarch butterflies this month in Mexico may have been caused by a winter freeze, not pesticide-spraying by loggers, as one environmental group alleged last week. Mexico’s environmental agency said on Monday that it had tested 300 butterfly corpses and found no traces of toxic substances from pesticides, leading it to […]

This Leaves a Lott to Be Desired

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said this week that he’s prepared to take on Sen. John Kerry if the Democrat from Massachusetts follows through on a threat to filibuster legislation permitting oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Lott said he would use the occasion to blame Democrats and environmentalists […]

"Read My Lips"

After conservatives and industry raised a fuss, President Bush reversed a campaign pledge for the first time yesterday and said he would not seek reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. A statement by his campaign last September promised Bush would set “mandatory reduction targets” for emissions of CO2, the main gas contributing to […]

Greens' Day

Germany’s Greens emerged unusually unified this week from their party congress in Stuttgart, just a few weeks before two key state elections. The Greens, a partner in Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s coalition government, made steps to end longstanding divisions between radicals and moderates. Moderates were appeased when the party voted not to support blockades of nuclear […]