Articles by Grist staff

This Little Carbon Went to Market

The Sydney Futures Exchange is setting up a market in Australia in carbon sequestration credits, or units of carbon dioxide that have been absorbed by trees. Industries will be able to buy the credits and use them to offset carbon emissions from the production of electricity, steel, aluminum, and other products. The global market, to […]

A River Runs Sioux It

The EPA yesterday settled a lawsuit and agreed to study why children have taken ill after playing in a river that runs through a South Dakota Indian reservation. The Oglala Sioux Indian tribe and six South Dakota environmental groups had filed suit against the EPA for failing to enforce water pollution laws in the state. […]

Demand Hops for Wind Power

The New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins, Colo., will buy all the power produced by a new wind turbine in Wyoming, prompting one official to propose that the turbine be painted to resemble a giant bottle of Fat Tire beer, which the brewery produces. The turbine is one of five scheduled to be installed in […]

Wild, Wild West Bank

A number of Israeli industries are dumping toxic waste in the West Bank, Palestinian officials charge, violating environmental agreements made in 1993 as part of the Oslo peace accords. Friends of the Earth Middle East, an Arab and Israeli environmental group, reported in December 1998 that there were at least 50 unauthorized hazardous waste dumps […]