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Be My Ballantine
Pres. Clinton will propose a $2.4 billion package of programs to combat global warming, including $200 million to promote the sales of energy-efficient U.S. technology abroad, White House officials said […]
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Float Like a Butterfly … We Hope
Mexican officials are cracking down on illegal logging that threatens the winter habitat of hundreds of millions of migratory monarch butterflies, but they have yet to halt the tree-chopping completely. […]
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Letter Rip
Leaders of green groups are pushing Pres. Clinton to put his money where his mouth is on trade and the environment. In a letter to the prez, the enviros praise […]
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Oh, We Got Trouble — With a Capital T and That Rhymes with P and That Stands for Population
Re: Daily Grist Dear Editor: What a great magazine! Now that I subscribe to the Daily Gist, I clutch my cuppa java as I pass through your cloud of gloom. […]
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Just Plane Wrong
A British Columbia airline has gotten a slap on the wrist for refusing to sell a ticket to a Greenpeace activist. Pacific Coastal Airlines tried to defend itself by saying […]
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Where There's Smoke, There's Sick Kids
Mexico City residents are choking on record levels of dirty air this week, after suspended-particle pollution hit an all-time high on Monday. Outdoor activities at schools and youth sports centers […]
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Slippery Slope
BP Exploration, a part of the oil giant BP Amoco, yesterday agreed to pay $15.5 million for failing to immediately report the illegal disposal of hazardous materials at an oil […]
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No Nukes Would Be Good News
Japan’s worst nuclear accident — a September 1999 incident at a nuclear fuel plant in Tokaimura — exposed 439 people to radiation, up from a previous estimate of 69, government […]
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A Forests-Gone Conclusion
Indigenous peoples from Alaska and the Peruvian Amazon joined enviros Monday in calling on the U.N. to act quickly to stop a global crisis of deforestation. This week in New […]
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Dissed Oriente
A Manhattan federal judge says he is leaning toward ruling that an environmental lawsuit filed against Texaco by Ecuadorian Indians should be tried in Ecuador, as Texaco prefers, rather than […]
