Articles by Grist staff

Swapping Spat

With two weeks of international negotiations over how to implement the Kyoto climate change treaty beginning today in The Hague, Netherlands, President Clinton on Saturday called for the first time for federal regulations that would limit emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from power plants in the U.S. Clinton proposed a trading system, similar […]

Ulla-Britt Reeves, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy

Ulla-Britt Reeves is the clean air program director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. Although she is a native West Coaster, she has lived and worked in the East for six years. Before her job at SACE, Ulla worked for an international volunteer agency in Virginia. Monday, 13 Nov 2000 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. We had […]

Go Tell Anti-Roady!

Many U.S. environmentalists are celebrating today after the Clinton administration unveiled a new version of its plan to protect roadless national forest lands. The plan has been expanded to encompass the huge Tongass National Forest in Alaska, a change enviros had been lobbying for, though activists are disappointed that protections wouldn’t be extended to the […]

Taiwan on

Nearly 20,000 Taiwanese citizens hit the streets of Taipei and Kaohsiung yesterday to protest against nuclear power and show support for Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, who is facing a political crisis after announcing a decision to halt construction of a partially completed nuclear power plant. Leaders of Taiwan’s three main opposition parties, angry over the […]