Articles by Grist staff

It's Sprawl Downhill From Here

Much to the disappointment of environmentalists, high-profile anti-sprawl ballot measures in Colorado and Arizona were defeated in yesterday’s election. A proposed amendment to the Colorado constitution that would have put dramatic constraints on development, requiring cities and counties to develop growth plans and let the public vote on them, was rejected by a margin of […]

London Birds Are Falling Down

Urbanization and climate change may be partly to blame for a serious decline in Britain of house sparrows, formerly the most common bird in the country. Max Nicholson, a 96-year-old bird watcher who has been conducting informal bird censuses for 75 years, said that this year he counted only eight sparrows in London’s Kensington Gardens, […]

Waiting for Uh-oh

Enviros are biting their nails along with the rest of America, waiting to hear the outcome of the presidential race between Al Gore and George W. Bush. It is known that Green Party candidate Ralph Nader fell short of the 5 percent of votes that would have earned the party federal matching funds in the […]

Airing Their Grievances

In one of the most significant environmental cases to reach the U.S. Supreme Court in years, the high court yesterday heard arguments on whether the U.S. EPA overstepped its bounds in setting new clean air standards for ozone and particulates in 1997. Industry groups argue that the Clean Air Act, as interpreted by the EPA, […]