Articles by Grist staff

Houston, You Have a Problem

Houston has earned the title of smoggiest city in the U.S. this year, a distinction gladly abdicated by Los Angeles. In 1999, Houston has had 44 days when ozone levels exceeded national health standards, one more than the L.A. region, and for the first year in more than five decades, the L.A. area has not […]

Crock in Trade

The World Trade Organization has decided against every environmental, public health, and safety regulation it has ever considered, according to a book-length report released today by Ralph Nader’s consumer watchdog group Public Citizen. The report, the most comprehensive of its type to date, argues that the WTO has usurped the right of nations to determine […]

Everybody, Out of the Water!

Over the next 25 years, nearly one in two Africans will live in countries stressed by fresh water shortages and the main conflicts in Africa could be over water supplies, according to a U.N. Development Program report. One-fourth of the world’s populace will suffer severe water scarcity during the same time period, even during years […]

Where's the Beef?

Ranching and farming groups got word yesterday that the Supreme Court will hear their challenge to the Clinton administration’s revised livestock grazing policies for federal land throughout the West. The court voted to weigh an appeal that says the administration’s 1995 rules, intended to improve management and protection of the land, violate federal law and […]