Articles by Grist staff

Natural Born Weed Killers

The cocktail of chemicals found in the most common herbicides used in home lawn care in the U.S. could reduce fertility and cause miscarriages, according to a study published today in Environmental Health Perspectives. The study does not name the brand of weed-killer tested, but the active ingredient — a mix of three phenoxy herbicides […]

Stuffed Sacs

Unhappy with some of the findings of the scientific advisory committees that guide federal policy, the Bush administration has begun to stack the deck in its favor, eliminating some committees entirely and reshuffling membership in others. Fifteen of the 18 members of a committee assessing the effects of environmental chemicals on human health have been […]

Warm Globally, Don’t Warn Locally

For the first time since 1995, the U.S. EPA’s annual report on air pollution trends, released earlier this month, has no section on global warming. The EPA, which deleted the chapter with White House approval, said the decision was made because the agency had released two other reports on global warming earlier in the year […]

Paul Horton, Climate Solutions

Paul Horton is cofounder and codirector of Climate Solutions, which is dedicated to stopping global warming by making the Pacific Northwest a world leader in practical and profitable solutions. Monday, 16 Sep 2002 MISSOULA, Mont. It’s Monday morning and I’m still a little bit disoriented from being back in one of my old home towns […]