Articles by Grist staff

Crime Me a River

It will soon be a crime to harm salmon or steelhead in some urban areas in the Northwest. The National Marine Fisheries Service is planning to announce rules to that effect next week, a follow-up to last year’s listing of fish runs in Washington’s Puget Sound and Oregon’s Willamette River under the Endangered Species Act. […]

Many Happy Returns

Europeans would be able to return their outdated electrical goods to the products’ manufacturers under a new law proposed by the European Commission yesterday. The proposal aims to cut down on heavy metals and other pollutants in municipal waste by requiring manufacturers to take back electrical goods and recycle at least 60 to 80 percent […]

Surplus With a Smile

Al Gore pledged yesterday that if he’s elected president, he will use some of the federal government’s surplus to create a National Energy Security and Environment Trust Fund, which would, among other things, help clean up old, dirty coal-fired power plants. He announced the plan as he kicked off a three-week “progress and prosperity tour,” […]

Profit in the Wilderness

An Australian company, Earth Sanctuaries Ltd., is aiming to turn a profit by protecting land and wildlife. The company, one of the first of its kind in the world, operates three Australian conservation sanctuaries and plans to buy land to create new sanctuaries, likely near Sydney and Melbourne. It intends to make money by attracting […]