Articles by Grist staff

No Island Is an Island

Several dozen small island nations, which have banded together to raise awareness about their plight as climate change threatens their futures with rising seas and increasingly violent weather, will get a chance to voice their fears in a special session of the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 27 and 28. The nations will once again […]

Razing Arizona

Fourteen months before voters head to the polls, a brawl is already brewing in Arizona over proposed ballot initiatives that aim to deal with sprawl. The Sierra Club is sponsoring an initiative that would impose mandatory urban boundaries and development controls throughout the state. Last week, political appointees delivered an opposing business-backed package of growth […]

Meanwhile, Kansas Wants a National Adam-and-Eve Day

An unusual coalition of environmentalists, big business, labor organizations, and consumer advocacy groups is banding together against proposed legislation that would make it harder for the federal government to preempt the states with nationwide standards on the environment and a range of other issues. In an effort to shift political power back to the states, […]

Stop POPs Before We Drop

Talks began yesterday in Geneva on a global treaty to control or ban 12 toxic chemicals known as “the dirty dozen,” including DDT, dioxin, and PCBs. Enviros are pressing negotiators to move quickly to ban the persistent organic pollutants (POPs), which break down extremely slowly, are absorbed into the food chain, and have been linked […]