Articles by Grist staff

West Virginia, Mountain Maim-ah

The Clinton-Gore administration disappointed some enviros yesterday as it made official for the first time its position on mountaintop-removal mining, a controversial technique used in West Virginia. A federal judge ruled last year that the mining technique, in which the tops of mountains are blasted off to get at coal deposits and the debris is […]

I-M-Furious

Thousands of enviros and other demonstrators hit the streets of Washington, D.C., this weekend to protest corporate globalization, hoping to build on the momentum of last year’s demonstrations in Seattle against the World Trade Organization. They have been thwarted in their efforts to shut down meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank by […]

No More Weepin' and A-Whalin'

Japan and Norway failed on Saturday in their controversial push to overturn an international ban on commercial trade in whales. Delegates from 150 nations at a meeting of the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species rejected proposals that would have allowed trade in gray and minke whales. Whale defenders were heartened that Japan […]

Sequoia and You Shall Find

Posed against a scenic background of giant sequoias in California’s Sierra Nevada, President Clinton on Saturday designated the nation’s newest national monument. Commercial logging, mining, and some recreational activities will be banned in the 328,000-acre Grand Sequoia National Monument, which encompasses 34 groves of the ancient, giant trees. Acting under the 1906 Antiquities Act, which […]