Articles by Grist staff

Hill's Tree Blues

After living two years in giant California redwood to protest the logging of old-growth trees, Julia “Butterfly” Hill took her fight to ground-level yesterday. Hill, who descended from the branches in December, joined scores of other enviros in bringing a petition before the California state forestry board that would impose an immediate ban on old-growth […]

Don't Be Pokey, Man — Dump the Nukes

Public opinion has taken a sharp turn against nuclear power in Japan, following a tragic September accident at a nuclear fuel plant in Tokaimura that exposed scores of people to high levels of radiation and killed one worker. Public protest has not been common in Japanese society for well over a generation, but local movements […]

Get Fired Up

Citizens of East Liverpool, Ohio, are leaning on Vice Pres. Al Gore to keep a promise he made in 1992 to block the opening of a local hazardous-waste incinerator that’s just 1,100 feet from an elementary school. Gore made the pledge a month after he and Clinton were elected in 1992, but the administration says […]

Air Plan Takes Off

The Chinese government has launched a big millennial campaign to clean up Beijing, with an eye toward the possibility of winning the right to host the Olympics in 2008. More than 1,000 industrial enterprises in the city belch out soot and help give Beijing some of the most polluted, dangerous air in the world; under […]