Articles by Grist staff

Snake Bites

The Lower Snake River in Washington state was declared the most endangered waterway in the U.S. today by the environmental group American Rivers. Others in the group’s annual list of the most endangered rivers included the Missouri, the Ventura in California, and the Copper in Alaska. The Snake made the top of the list because […]

Go With the Phloem

Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman recommended on Friday that President Clinton give national monument status to 355,000 acres of national forest in California’s Sierra Nevadas, a move that would safeguard about half of the giant sequoia groves remaining in the U.S. Federal policy already forbids the cutting of massive sequoias, but Glickman suggested that logging of […]

Pope Denounces Chinese Trade … Carl Pope, That Is

The Sierra Club today launched a campaign to defeat the U.S.-China trade pact that the Clinton administration is trying to push through Congress. Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope made the announcement by the side of AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, as the labor federation gears up for a rally against the deal on Capitol Hill, […]

I Should Have Had a G-8!

Environmental ministers from the world’s eight leading industrialized nations ended a conference in Japan yesterday without agreeing on a deadline for ratifying the Kyoto climate change agreement. The European Union and Japan want the treaty ratified by 2002, while the U.S. and Canada resisted any specific timeframe for ratification. The chief U.S. representative, W. Michael […]