Articles by Grist staff

At a Loss for Birds

FCC to Investigate Why Millions of Birds Fly into Cell-Phone Towers The Federal Communications Commission is launching an investigation into the reasons why high numbers of birds are killed by flying into cell-phone and broadcast towers in the U.S. Each year, an estimated 5 million to 50 million birds die this way, says the U.S. […]

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Geiger Counter

Energy Department Seeks Rule Change on N-Waste Disposal Offshore oil drilling is one area where the Bush administration is trying to rewrite the rules; radioactive waste disposal is another. A month ago, a federal judge ordered the Department of Energy to remove 85 million gallons of liquid nuclear waste from sites in Idaho, South Carolina, […]

Sweeter Home Alabama

Alabama PCB Suits End in $700 Million Settlement Monsanto Co. and its spin-off enterprise, Solutia, agreed yesterday to pay $700 million to settle state and federal lawsuits concerning five decades of PCB pollution in Anniston, Ala. From the 1930s to the 1970s, Monsanto (and later Solutia) used a plant in Anniston to produce PCBs, which […]

Must Have Been Something in the Water

India Says Coke, Pepsi Products Safe to Drink Three weeks after an environmental organization created a furor in India by claiming that soft drinks made by Coca-Cola and Pepsi contained dangerously high levels of pesticides, the nation’s government proclaimed the products safe. Health Minister Sushma Swaraj said today that the government had tested the soft […]