Articles by Grist staff

Drill Team

President-elect Bush says he plans to review and possibly roll back President Clinton’s regulation to ban road-building and logging on 58.5 million acres of national forest land. Bush, in a New York Times interview, said, “What I would seek to do is to make sure that our bureaucracies were not trampling the interest of the […]

L.A. Likers

For the second year in a row, no first-stage ozone pollution alerts were reported in the greater Los Angles area last year. Many of the 16 million people who live in the four-county area are now breathing air that meets all of the U.S. EPA health standards. Unhealthful days have dropped 75 percent over the […]

Of Course It's Tireless. It's a Sub.

Greenpeace activists from Spain, Germany, Austria, and Italy boarded a nuclear-powered submarine from Britain today to protest its presence in Gibraltar, a British colony on Spain’s southern tip. The activists evaded Spanish police and British troops to reach the submarine, the Tireless, which has been docked in Gibraltar for nine months for repairs after a […]

Marta Echavarria, EcoDecision

Marta Echavarria is a founder of EcoDecision, an environmental business promotion firm based in Ecuador and Colombia. Tuesday, 16 Jan 2001 QUITO, Ecuador Here I am, an environmental manager who has worked with private Latin American companies for over 13 years, sitting on the other side of the table. Since November, I have been actively […]