Articles by Grist staff

A Campaign Stuck in Park?

Standing on a scenic cattle ranch in the battleground state of Washington yesterday, GOP presidential nominee George W. Bush pledged that he would increase funding for national parks by $3.75 billion over the next five years so that the parks could tackle a major maintenance backlog. “A Clinton-Gore administration has chosen to expand the public […]

In the Navy, You Can't Put Your Mind at Ease

Forty-one environmental groups banded together yesterday to criticize an effort by the U.S. Navy to exempt two military bases in California from provisions of the Endangered Species Act. Navy officials say they need the exemptions for national security reasons and claim they will implement their own species-protection efforts. In a formal letter to the U.S. […]

That's Hard Corps

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has the conflicting responsibilities of protecting the country’s wetlands and developing taxpayer-funded water projects, often justifies such projects with questionable technical studies and proceeds with them despite significant environmental costs, concludes the Washington Post in an exhaustive five-day series on the agency. Because of its past record and […]

A Worm Welcome for Olympic Athletes

The Olympic Games about to kick off in Sydney will be the greenest ever. Many of the facilities are solar-powered, a water-recycling system is in place, the torch is energy-efficient, the plates and eating utensils are biodegradable, and 80 percent of the waste generated during the games is expected to be recycled or composted by […]