Articles by Grist staff

Vermiculite at the End of the Tunnel

Company Ordered to Pay for Cleanup of Montana Town In the largest trial judgment awarded in the history of the Superfund law, a federal judge yesterday ordered W.R. Grace and Co. to repay the $54.5 million the federal government spent cleaning up asbestos contamination in the town of Libby, Mont. The company and its subsidiary […]

Relax? Don’t Do It!

Bush Administration Relaxes Clean Air Act Rules In an expected but nonetheless bitter blow to environmentalists, the Bush administration yesterday rolled back the New Source Review rules of the Clean Air Act. Under those rules, utilities were required to install state-of-the-art pollution controls when they upgraded their facilities. Now, those rules will be relaxed for […]

Ranger in a Strange Land

Violence Against Federal Lands Employees on the Rise As if the current assault on the environment weren’t bad enough, it turns out that attacks on those responsible for protecting nature are on the upswing, too. Threats and violence against federal land management employees rose substantially last year, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Attacks […]

Skeptic Tanked

Scientific Panel Dismisses Reports from Danish Environmental Skeptic Recent environmental reports produced by Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish environmental skeptic, were found to be unscientific and of dubious value yesterday by a panel of independent Scandinavian scientists. Lomborg created a stir with his controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist, in which he dismissed a wide range of […]