Articles by Grist staff

If Not for You Meddling Kids …

Judge Spanks Commerce Secretary Over Dolphin-Safe Rules In a ruling made public yesterday, a federal judge resoundingly rejected the efforts of Bush administration officials to relax “dolphin-safe” standards for tuna. U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson’s ruling was, to put it mildly, strongly worded. “The record is replete with evidence that [Commerce Secretary Donald Evans] was […]

Mineral Wrongs

Natural Resources Fuel Brutal War in Congo In the U.S., communities can be inconvenienced by the extraction of natural resources — increased air pollution, say, or loss of undeveloped land. But it’s worth remembering that in other parts of the world, the stakes are quite a bit higher. Case in point: the cruelly named Democratic […]

Here a Nuke, There a Nuke, Everywhere a Nuke Nuke

Settlement Increases Pressure to Open Yucca; Kerry Opposes Facility Pressure is rising around the issue of what to do with nuclear waste in the U.S. In the 1980s, the feds signed agreements with several power companies, promising to take nuclear waste off their hands starting in 1998. The plan was to put it all in […]

So Lawn, Farewell

The Earth Hates Your Lawn We’re sorry to keep harping on this, but: the lawns, people, the lawns. Quit with the lawns! There are 30 million acres of green lawn in the U.S. Some 54 million people mow their lawns each week in the summer, using 800 million gallons of gas a year. More than […]