Articles by Grist staff

Keeping Development at Bay

In an agreement being hailed as a national model, the leaders of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., pledged yesterday to curb sprawl in the Chesapeake Bay area. They vowed to reduce by 30 percent the rate of development in the 64,000-square-mile watershed by 2012, and to permanently protect 1.6 million acres and restore 25,000 […]

Abandon (Partner)ship!

A coalition of enviro and consumer groups is calling for an end to one of Al Gore’s pet projects, the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles, under which the federal government and Big Three U.S. automakers have teamed up to develop highly fuel-efficient cars and trucks. Critics point out that despite the millions of […]

Hark, Hoover Goes There?

A coalition of enviros filed suit yesterday to force the U.S. government to do a better job of protecting endangered species and habitat along the lower Colorado River where it flows south toward Mexico and the Gulf of California. The ecological health of the area has deteriorated because seven upstream states divert so much water […]

Across to Bear

Wolves, bears, Canada lynx, and other animals are increasingly being killed in western Canada, causing some scientists to worry that species given strict protection in the U.S. might be in trouble when they cross over the Canadian border. In 1997, 12 grizzly bears, some of them considered essential to population stability in the border region, […]