Articles by Grist staff

Mr. Mercury Goes to Washington

Bush Foes Intend to Make Mercury a Campaign Issue Enviros and Bush adversaries are plotting to make mercury an issue in the presidential campaign. Controversy has been swirling around the Bush administration’s plan for reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants, a plan that critics say panders to industry with unambitious reduction targets, prolonged timetables, […]

Hair-Raising News

Shampoos and Other Personal Products May Pose Health Risks Do you know how toxic your shampoo is? Many personal-care products contain ingredients whose health effects are untested or, worse, ingredients known to pose health risks or even cause cancer, according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group and other nonprofits. Only 11 percent […]

In for the Long Haul

Supreme Court Opens U.S. Roads to Mexican Trucks In a victory for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court yesterday unanimously ruled that Mexican trucks can haul their goods throughout the U.S. even if the government hasn’t studied how their emissions would affect air quality. Enviro and labor groups and nine states had sought to prevent […]

Life Intimidating Art

Feds Go After Artist Critical of Biotechnology The FBI is using the Patriot Act to go after an artist whose work calls into question the safety and morality of genetic modification of crops and other uses of biotechnology. Steve Kurtz — an art professor at the University at Buffalo and cofounder of an artists’ collective […]