Articles by Grist staff

Going Bananas

Philippine Journalists Arrested for Reporting on Illegal Pesticide Use Four journalists working in the Philippines, including a New York Times correspondent, have been arrested on libel charges because of articles and columns they wrote in 2000 about the use of illegal pesticides at a banana plantation. Also arrested was Romeo Quijano, a professor of medicine […]

Rove V. Waders

White House Political Maneuvering Could Hurt Northwest Salmon President Bush lost in Oregon and Washington in the 2000 election, but his team is working to ensure that he fares better in the Pacific Northwest in 2004 — and that may mean trouble for salmon. Bush’s top strategy honcho, Karl Rove, has been making quiet trips […]

Take a Bite Out of Grime

New Jersey to Make Polluters Pay for Routine Contamination New Jersey is getting tough on polluters, and other states may have a lot to learn from the state’s approach. New Jersey officials say they will soon begin broadly enforcing a law that requires polluting industries to pay the cost of cleaning up their messes. Sounds […]

I Love Trash

New Fuel Cell Uses Bacteria to Generate Power Maybe it’s not just a Back to the Future fantasy: If scientists at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst keep making progress in developing a “microbial fuel cell,” one day trash might be able to power any number of devices (though probably not a time-traveling DeLorean). In […]