Articles by Grist staff

Psychiatric Help 5 Cents

Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.), whom environmentalists love to hate, has taken to denouncing gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles, and some enviros are reacting with schizophrenic behavior. While the Sierra Club in Seattle has been handing out mock baseball cards accusing Gorton of “striking out” on the environment, the Sierra Club in D.C. recently posed Gorton in […]

The Unkindest Cut

The $792 billion tax-cut plan, passed by the GOP-controlled Congress and under veto threat from Pres. Clinton, would give more than $1 billion in subsidies over the next five years to petroleum, chemical, timber, and nuclear-power industries, says Friends of the Earth. One of the biggest tax breaks for a narrow interest would repeal rules […]

Operation Butterfly Storm

The Group of 100, a leading Mexican environmental organization, yesterday called on the nation’s army to defend the winter refuge of monarch butterflies against heavily armed illegal loggers. Locals living near the butterfly refuge in western Michoacan state have reported that 100 trucks loaded with lumber leave the refuge each night. An audit published in […]

I Just Can't Help It — I Looove to Pollute!

A Tampa man portrayed by prosecutors as an incorrigible polluter was sentenced yesterday to 13 years in the slammer, the longest sentence ever given out in a federal environmental crimes case. Gary Benkovitz, 62, owner of a company that cleans and resells 55-gallon drums, has been convicted of deliberately releasing more than 4 million gallons […]