Articles by Grist staff

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 […]

Throwing It in Reverse

In a private letter to President-elect George W. Bush, Rep. Jim Hansen (R-Utah), the incoming chair of the House Resources Committee, has proposed reversing a wide range of the Clinton’s administration’s environmental initiatives. Hansen has suggested easing a ban on snowmobile use in some national parks, taking away some the national monument designations by Pres. […]

Road Worriers

Negotiations between environmental groups and Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes (D) over how to balance air quality and road-building in the Atlanta metro area collapsed this week. The two sides were close to an agreement that would have lifted a freeze on road-building if the state cut emissions from diesel generators and construction equipment, began to […]