Articles by Grist staff

I've Got the World's Tiniest Violin …

The chair of Occidental Petroleum has filed suit against environmental and human rights activists who have been picketing his home and office to protest Occidental’s plans to drill for oil on rainforest land in Colombia that is considered to be the ancestral home of the indigenous U’wa tribe. Ray Irani claims his family life was […]

Feel My Roth!

The Senate showed its support yesterday for opening Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, a move vehemently opposed by enviros. The Senate voted 51-49 against dropping from the budget resolution an assumption that ANWR will be opened to drilling, thereby netting the government $1.2 billion by 2005. Sen. William Roth (R-Del.) led the […]

Trunk and White

South Africa has sparked a big controversy with its proposal to sell a large stockpile of ivory believed to be worth $5 million. Africa’s elephant population was estimated last year at 620,000, down from 1.2 million less than 20 years ago. Although the decline seems to have been checked, in part because of a 1989 […]

Gary, Gary Quite Contrary

Fourteen containers of PCB-contaminated waste have been sitting since Wednesday on a ship at the Port of Seattle, with dock workers refusing to unload the cargo and environmentalists threatening to sue if the waste is brought ashore in Seattle. The 110 tons of waste, generated at U.S. military bases in Japan, had been headed for […]