Articles by Grist staff

What's Mine Is Theirs, What's Theirs Is Mine

A coalition of Canadian and U.S. environmental groups submitted a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt yesterday, asking him to help protect the Taku River watershed from mining. The groups want Babbitt to declare a proposed mining project a hazard to grizzly bears, caribou, and salmon that live in the watershed, which covers a […]

The Rules of the Roadless

Pres. Clinton today moved to put almost a third of the country’s national forestland forever off-limits to road-building and commercial logging. The rule to protect 58.5 million acres of land will effectively prohibit oil and gas drilling as well, and could go a long way toward limiting off-road vehicle access. The road-building ban covers big […]

Shape Up, Don't Ship Out

Environmental groups in India are protesting a plan by a U.S. company to ship about 120 tons of used mercury to India. The chemical company HoltraChem produced the waste mercury in Maine and then sold it to an Illinois trader. The Indian importer and the ultimate destination of the mercury within India have been kept […]

Lean, Green Electoral Machine

Although Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader received only 3 percent of the popular vote nationally, 32 of 240 other Green candidates won elections in 12 states. In all, the party now has in office 79 elected officials in 21 states, each official serving at the municipal level. That number makes the Greens one of […]