Articles by Grist staff

Up the River Without a Program

A group of conservative Republicans in Congress is trying to undermine President Clinton’s Heritage Rivers Program. Established in 1997, the program — which is jointly run by the Agriculture, Interior, Defense, and Housing and Urban Development departments — provides federal administrative help to designated river communities looking for funding or other support for environmental cleanup […]

Battle Royale

Genetically modified (GM) foods are at the center of the latest tiff in Britain’s royal family. The views of Prince Charles, a devoted supporter of organic farming and ardent foe of GM foods, have been publicly criticized in recent days by both his father, Prince Philip, and his sister, Princess Anne. Last month, Prince Charles […]

Ceci N'est Pas Une Good Idea

Despite vehement protests from enviros and human rights activists, the World Bank yesterday approved a $193 million loan for a 663-mile oil pipeline in Chad and Cameroon. Opponents of the project — which is expected to cost $3.7 billion total and is being spearheaded by ExxonMobil — say it would destroy sensitive rainforest, lead to […]

That's Fin With Us

The U.S. House voted 350 to 1 yesterday to ban in U.S. waters the practice known as shark finning, in which sharks are caught, their fins are cut off, and the rest of their dead or dying bodies are thrown back in the ocean. Some 60,000 Pacific sharks are killed by this method each year […]