Articles by Grist staff

A heartbreaking collection of monologues from those affected by the disaster

Today is the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine. And in remembrance, I bring to you a special edition of Under the Covers, highlighting the book Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, which recently hit my desk with an incredibly depressing thud. Written — or rather, collected — […]

Ford Too Shall TerraPass

Ford teams up with TerraPass to help drivers offset emissions Like the man said, the times they are a-changin’. Slowly, but a-changin’ nonetheless. Ford Motor Co., manufacturer of all things carbon-emitting, is partnering with TerraPass, a carbon-offset company. Tomorrow, Ford is expected to announce a new “Greener Miles” program, whereby customers can visit a website […]

Wonder If New Orleans Wrote Them a Recommendation Letter

Army Corps can continue its Missouri River meddling, Supreme Court says In bad news for enviros (why are we always saying that?), the Supreme Court has declined to hear challenges in three cases questioning the Army Corps of Engineers’ authority on the Missouri River. With authority now decidedly in hand, the Corps can continue to […]

Yucca Fool Some of the People Some of the Time

Feds won’t press charges against scientists who falsified Yucca documents Scientists accused of falsifying quality-assurance documents for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste site in Nevada will not be charged by federal prosecutors. Emails between U.S. Geological Survey hydrologists from 1998 to 2000 indicate that dates were invented and inconvenient data was deleted as hydrologists conducted […]