Articles by Grist staff

Down the Hatch

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt today will ask Pres. Clinton to create at least four new national monuments, including two in Arizona and two in California. Some 1 million acres northwest of Grand Canyon National Park, tens of thousands of acres near Phoenix, 10,000 acres south of San Jose, and thousands of small, uninhabited islands off […]

What, a Team?

Celebs such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Pierce Brosnan, Ted Danson, Bette Midler, and Patrick Stewart have all taken on environmental causes, and enviros are welcoming the help, though they acknowledge that the pairing of indulgent Hollywood and the more simplicity-oriented environmental movement is sometimes an odd one. Denis Hayes, chair and CEO of Earth Day Network, […]

The Dregs

After years of research, Starbucks has abandoned a prototype coffee cup designed to be more enviro-friendly. The world’s largest coffee retailer had been working to eliminate the need to double cup or use corrugated paper sleeves outside hot cups to protect customers’ hands. But those plans are now down the drain. The company didn’t get […]

Oil's Not Well

A tanker carrying 8 million gallons of diesel oil broke in half during a storm yesterday and began leaking oil off the northwest coast of France. Officials at the Brest Port Authority, 60 miles away, estimated that between 600,000 and 1.5 million gallons of the oil had been spilled so far, and said it would […]