Articles by Grist staff

Storm Troopers

The Bush administration announced on Friday that oil and gas companies will not be bound by new regulations that require storm water runoff plans to be developed for small construction sites, a means of keeping dangerous chemicals and metals from contaminating waterways. Saying it needs more time to study the situation, the U.S. EPA has […]

Between Iraq and a Hard Place

The U.S. Coast Guard has stationed members of its Strike Force in the Persian Gulf to respond to possible intentional oil spills by Iraq in retaliation for U.S. military action. The Strike Force, which responds to chemical and environmental crises, has been called upon in the recent past to manage hazardous debris from the space […]

Suburban Crawl

U.S. workers are playing musical chairs with their jobs at the price of less productivity and more congestion and pollution, according to new census data released this week. For example, take Arlington County, Va., where 70 percent of resident workers leave the county every day for jobs elsewhere — and an even greater number of […]

Sierras Clubbed

Logging would more than double, more cattle would be allowed to graze, and forests could be aggressively thinned under proposed revisions to a management plan for the Sierra Nevada unveiled yesterday by the U.S. Forest Service. The sweeping changes to the Clinton-era Sierra Nevada Framework would allow timber companies to cut trees up to 30 […]