Articles by Grist staff

Barnes Storming

Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes (D) is close to reaching a compromise with environmentalists who have sued state and federal agencies over air-quality concerns and kept metro Atlanta’s $36 billion transportation plan on hold. To improve air quality, Barnes has proposed speeding up a $4.5 million study of the health effects of the city’s air pollution, […]

Sturgeons General Warning

Representatives from more than 150 nations are meeting this week in West Virginia to consider changes to a U.N. treaty protecting endangered species. One hot topic is likely to be the fate of sturgeon, whose populations have fallen between 50 and 70 percent over the last century, in part because of a black market in […]

Peake-achu

As a first step toward reaching their goal of stopping all releases of chemical pollutants into Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia are signing an agreement today to clean up toxic “hot spots” in three tributaries of the bay and to curb the flow of chemicals running into the bay’s watershed. The […]

Hi! My Beloved Country

South Africa announced this weekend that it has been selected to host the U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Development, a.k.a. the Earth Summit 2002. More than 40,000 delegates will likely attend the conference, which will mark the 10th anniversary of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, where world leaders agreed to an agenda for protecting the […]