Articles by Grist staff

Et Tu, FoE?

Friends of the Earth will stick it to Al Gore today when the group’s political action committee announces that it will back Bill Bradley, Gore’s rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. The group notes that Bradley’s voting record in Congress got a higher rating than Gore’s from the League of Conservation Voters — 85 percent […]

Does This Make Up for Teflon Bullets?

Giant U.S. chemical company DuPont announced yesterday that it intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent from 1990 levels by 2010, taking “early action” before the Kyoto climate change treaty is enacted. The company also plans to hold its energy use flat and get 10 percent of its energy from renewable sources […]

Fright of the Condor

The National Audubon Society yesterday denounced plans for a new wind energy project north of Los Angeles in the historical habitat of the endangered California condor. As part of the California government’s plans to promote renewable energy, the state last year awarded $7 million to Enron to help construct the farm. But the U.S. Fish […]

A-bomb-inable

Two areas in Yugoslavia hit by NATO air strikes this spring are environmental “hot spots” in need of immediate decontamination, Pekka Haavisto, head of the U.N. environment team’s Balkan task force, said yesterday. Pancevo, a petrochemical industry area north of Belgrade, should be cleaned up before pollution contaminates the Danube River, and Kragujevac, an industrial […]