Articles by Grist staff

Riders Thrown

During late-night discussions last night over a massive spending package, congressional negotiators dropped two riders that had angered environmentalists. Alaska Sen. Frank Murkowski’s (R) effort to extend commercial fishing in the waters of Glacier Bay National Park was killed, as was Sen. Pete Domenici’s (R-N.M.) rider that would have prevented the Interior Department from setting […]

Summers-Time Blues

Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin will announce his resignation later today, according to White House officials. They said that Pres. Clinton planned to nominate Lawrence Summers, now Treasury deputy secretary, to replace Rubin. Stuart Eizenstat, the State Department’s undersecretary for business and economic affairs, is expected to move into Summers’s current slot. Summers has been widely […]

Gray Prospects for MTBE

MTBE, a controversial gasoline additive intended to reduce smog, has done little to improve air quality, according to a study released yesterday by the National Research Council. MTBE has been blamed for widespread water contamination, and California Gov. Gray Davis (D) in March ordered the additive to be phased out of gas in the state […]

Trying to Buck Riders

The House and Senate appropriations committees are wrangling over anti-environmental riders attached to a massive spending bill that would fund military action in Kosovo and send hurricane relief to Central America. House Speaker Denny Hastert (R-Ill.) and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) are insisting that most riders that add significantly to the bill’s projected […]