Articles by Grist staff

Al Gore Suffers From Weak Spine

Democratic presidential rivals Al Gore and Bill Bradley had a little spat last night over logging in the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire and Maine. Speaking at a New Hampshire debate, Bradley criticized the Clinton administration’s plan to limit logging in roadless areas of national forests because it would put some of the […]

Fish Rap

A 1995 deal between Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Defense Secretary William Cohen, who was at the time a Republican senator from Maine, helped to keep Atlantic salmon off the endangered species list, according to internal agency memos recently unearthed. In early 1995, Cohen, a moderate, sent a letter to Babbitt threatening to join his […]

More Power to 'Em

Electricity deregulation is giving a boost to clean energy in Pennsylvania — about a third of state residents who have chosen a new electricity supplier since the market opened have switched to renewable energy, according to officials at Conectiv Energy, which operates windmills in the state. Demand for wind energy has exceeded the company’s supply, […]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn's Trash

The massive Fresh Kills landfill, where New York City has dumped its garbage for 60 years, will be shut down two years from now, and city officials are already daydreaming about making the land into a large city park. The city’s sanitation department has hired Steven Handel, a plant ecologist at Rutgers University, to study […]