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U.S. Accused of Trying to Isolate United Nations Population Fund United Nations officials, diplomats, and NGO workers are accusing the Bush administration of attempting to isolate the U.N. Population Fund […]

Tim McCormick, public transit evangelist, answers questions

What environmental organization are you affiliated with? I’m planning manager at the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority. It provides public transit for the state of Rhode Island. What do you […]

Sprawl the Right Moves

Urban Planner Seeks New Vocabulary to Describe Sprawl Delores Hayden, a Yale professor of architecture, urbanism, and American studies, found herself struggling when she tried to describe the characteristic features […]

Oh Riley?

West’s Water Woes Put Spotlight on Bush Water Czar When the Bush administration appointed Bennett Riley to oversee both the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Reclamation, environmentalists feared […]

The Chipping News

Organic Snack Foods on the Rise One of the fastest growing segments of the $23 billion organic foods industry — faster than produce or dairy products — is snack food: […]

Kids Rocked

Enviro Problems Cause One-Third of Child Deaths in Europe Environmental hazards are responsible for a third of all child deaths — some 100,000 a year — in the 52 countries […]

Forgive Me, Father, for I Have Wind

The Main Objections to Wind Farms The political — and in some places legal — pressure to move to renewable energy is raising the profile of wind energy and the […]

Stretch Pants on Fire

House Rejects Snowmobile Ban, Again Snowmobile news! Here at Grist, we can’t get enough of it. Thursday brought a 224-198 vote in the House of Representatives rejecting a measure — […]

Shake Dat Tongass

House Cuts Funding for Tongass Roads The U.S. House of Representatives last night passed a bipartisan measure that would — if approved by the Senate and not vetoed by President […]

When Shell Freezes Over

Head of Shell Oil Worried About Planet The chair of Shell, one of the world’s largest oil companies, says that global warming has him “really very worried for the planet.” […]