Articles by Grist staff

How ’bout Them Apples?

Apples Rank as Produce Most Contaminated by Pesticides Apples, bell peppers, celery, and cherries rank as the produce most contaminated by pesticide residues in the U.S., says the Environmental Working Group in a new report. Using data from lab tests conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture, EWG compared […]

Barbara Dean, Island Press

Barbara Dean is executive editor at Island Press, a nonprofit environmental book publisher. Monday, 20 Oct 2003 COVELO, Calif. It’s another gorgeous autumn day on this remote square mile of Northern California. The morning sky over the hills across the river is turning from the gray of early dawn to clear brilliant blue. The oaks […]

Good to the Last Drop

Scientists Discover New, Clean Way to Generate Power from Water Scientists at the University of Alberta in Canada are creating a stir with their discovery of a clean and simple way to generate electricity by forcing water through narrow glass tubes, a finding being touted as the first completely new way to generate electricity in […]

Sludge Not Lest Ye Be Sludged

Bush Administration Won’t Regulate Farm Dioxins Nothing will get in the way of farmers using dioxin-tainted sewage sludge as fertilizer on their crops, thanks to a Bush administration decision announced on Friday. The U.S. EPA declared that it sees no need to regulate dioxins in sewage sludge that is applied to land in the U.S., […]