Articles by Grist staff

To MTBE or Not To MTBE?

The Clinton administration will announce today that it plans to phase out the use of MTBE, acknowledging that the gasoline additive poses health risks because of its tendency to contaminate groundwater. The Clean Air Act calls for the use of oxygenates such as MTBE in gasoline to help fuel burn more cleanly and release fewer […]

Bill Sheehan, GrassRoots Recycling Network

Bill Sheehan (pictured here with daughter Fiona) is network coordinator for the GrassRoots Recycling Network in Athens, Ga. Sunday, 19 Mar 2000 ATHENS, Ga. Woken up at 6:30 a.m. by my bouncy nine-year-old daughter, Fiona, who had been woken by her kitten. Sky gray, temperature cool — more like late winter than any weather in […]

In a Minor Key

Government officials in the Florida Keys have passed a resolution recognizing that climate change is likely to threaten the islands’ beaches and reefs, bring more hurricanes and storms, and harm the region’s tourist-based economy. The Keys’ Monroe Board of County Commissioners has also begun to work with the Alliance of Small Island States, which has […]

The Naked Truth

Nude protestors crashed the opening session of an international water conference underway today at the Hague, Netherlands. The inaugural speaker, Egyptian water resources minister Mahmoud Abu Zeid, looked on in stunned silence as a man and woman climbed up on stage in front of him, disrobed, and revealed to the audience their backs and buttocks, […]