Articles by Grist staff

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 […]

Taint Nuthin'

Environmentalists joined labor unions and Washington state officials in celebrating their victory this weekend after thwarting plans to unload and temporarily store 110 tons of toxic waste in Seattle. A ship carrying PCB-tainted waste from U.S. military bases in Japan arrived in the Port of Seattle last week, and the U.S. Defense Department attempted to […]