Articles by Grist staff

Y2-Kaboom

An error during a Y2K computer test caused a Los Angeles water treatment facility to spill about 4 million gallons of raw sewage into a city park Wednesday night, raising fears about environmental and other problems that could be in store as January 1, 2000 approaches. Maintenance workers had cleaned up most of the mess […]

Drawling Sprawl Brawl

Atlanta is taking a lead in the fight against sprawl as the new Georgia Regional Transit Authority, which will have unprecedented power over transportation in the region, takes shape. The new body, created by the state legislature in March, will have control over the building and widening of roads, a carpooling system, and construction of […]

Bigger Ain't Better

If all 68 million sport utility vehicles, minivans, and pickup trucks in the U.S. met the current 27.5 mile-per-gallon standard for cars, oil consumption in the U.S. would have been reduced by 336 million barrels in 1997, or 11 percent of the nation’s crude oil imports, according to a new study by the U.S. Public […]

Eagles Eye Recovery

The bald eagle has made such a striking comeback that the Clinton administration will propose around the Fourth of July that the national symbol be removed from the endangered species list. The eagle population in the U.S. is thought to have once numbered between 250,000 and 500,000, but by 1963, largely because of the pesticide […]