Articles by Grist staff

Judge Favors Hooters' Chicks

The U.S. Forest Service is putting on hold new timber sales in spotted owl territory in the Northwest, seeking to avoid new legal problems in U.S District Court. Last week, a federal judge put nine timber sales on hold, saying the Forest Service had violated the Northwest Forest Plan by failing to conduct wildlife and […]

Tricks of the Trade

U.S. officials and corporations are worried that protestors who argue that free trade harms the environment and has other negative social effects will get too much attention at the World Trade Organization meeting to be held in Seattle in November. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) recently sent a letter to Pres. Clinton expressing “deep concern” that […]

Strange Bedfellows

An unlikely duo, Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho), has joined forces to craft a bill that would create a loan program encouraging private landowners to plant trees to help reduce global warming. Funding for the program would come from fines collected under the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, which amounted […]

Pop Kills the Weasel?

Greenpeace yesterday called for a global halt to the production of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) — synthetic chemicals that damage the environment, pollute the food chain, and can even be found in breast milk. In a new report, the group said POPs were spreading over thousands of miles and killing striped dolphins, polar bears, and […]