Articles by Grist staff

Skull and Bones

In a victory for environmentalists, public-safety advocates, and nuclear-watchdog organizations, the federal Atomic Safety and Licensing Board yesterday rejected plans for storing spent nuclear fuel in Skull Valley, Utah. The ruling was also a win for the state, which had lobbied against the proposed storage facility, slated to be built on the Skull Valley Goshute […]

Doo Process

Calling for more stringent regulations to control manure runoff from large-scale farms, three environmental organizations filed suit against the U.S. EPA on Friday. The current rules, which were approved last month and will be phased in by 2006, require concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, to obtain water-pollution permits every five years, have a waste-management […]

Taken to the Cleaners

Under pressure from environmental organizations, the Florida legislature yesterday modified a bill designed to protect dry cleaners from being sued for toxic contamination. The original bill would have prevented people who owned land adjacent to dry cleaners from suing over groundwater contamination; the modified version would retain that provision but grant exceptions to those who […]

Peter Illyn, Restoring Eden

Peter Illyn is executive director of Restoring Eden, a nonprofit working to make environmental stewardship a core Christian value. Monday, 10 Mar 2003 HAINES, Alaska I’m a Christian environmental evangelist! This definition is loaded with stereotypes, both positive and negative, but it best describes what I do — traveling around the country preaching in churches […]