Articles by Grist staff

The End of the World As We Know It?

What will President Bush’s environmental policies mean to the American West? Observers say the Bush administration will be friendly to developers and the logging, grazing, and mining industries, and have a much lighter hand with environmental regulations. Bush has repeatedly said he will place much weight on local input into federal land management decisions. The […]

Why hasn't the National Marine Fisheries Service called for Snake River dams?

Passions run high in the Pacific Northwest over whether to remove four large federal dams on the lower Snake River to recover the river’s imperiled wild salmon and steelhead (a.k.a. sea-run rainbow trout). The Snake once produced more salmon and steelhead than any other river in the vast Columbia River basin — over 2 million […]

The Blues and the Graze

The U.S. government is calling for more timber harvesting and less grazing on 64 million acres in the eastern part of the Northwest as part of the largest federal land-use plan ever proposed. The plan, released yesterday by the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project, is a joint effort by the U.S. Forest Service and […]

Yuck Is Mountin'

Energy Secretary Bill Richardson called yesterday for an investigation into allegations that federal contractors compromised a scientific study to determine whether Yucca Mountain in Nevada would be a safe place to store all the country’s high-level nuclear waste. The Las Vegas Sun last month obtained a 60-page draft report about the site and found a […]