Articles by Grist staff

Swapping Spat

Enviros are planning to lobby against a proposal in President Clinton’s new budget plan that would give the U.S. Forest Service wide authority to sell public lands. White House officials say the language is intended to help the government swap public tracts for more desirable private ones, but enviros say that if a conservative administration […]

He Who Smelt It Dealt It

A cyanide spill from a Romanian gold smelter hit Serbia yesterday, after traveling downriver through Hungary for 10 days, devastating fish stocks and threatening the water supplies of 2.5 million people. The Serbian government is warning citizens not to use water from the Tisza River for any purpose and not to catch the river’s fish. […]

Yucky Mountain

Despite a fierce fight from Nevada’s two senators, the Senate voted yesterday to have thousands of tons of nuclear waste shipped from power plants across the U.S. to a repository in the Nevada desert. But President Clinton has promised to veto the bill, and the bill’s supporters fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to […]

A Pain in Harass

U.S. Forest Service employees in Nevada say they’ve been harassed, intimidated, and threatened by locals who are hostile toward federal land-use policies, and some say they fear for their safety. The USFS sent an investigative team to Nevada in December to interview more than 100 workers after the regional supervisor for the agency, Gloria Flora, […]