Articles by Grist staff

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 […]

Balkan Death Grip

Italy on Wednesday became the latest European country to ask NATO to be more open about the depleted uranium weapons used in past Balkan conflicts. Six Italian soldiers who served in the Balkans have died of leukemia, leaving some wondering whether the deaths might be tied to exposure to the DU ammunition. France, Spain, Portugal, […]

Burning Down the House

A radical environment group, the Earth Liberation Front, has claimed responsibility for setting fires to several houses under construction on what used to be farmland on Long Island, N.Y. The vandals left the message, “If you build it we will burn it,” in red paint on one house damaged on Saturday. The ELF, whose members […]