Articles by Grist staff

The Boys, a Bummer, Are Gone

Boys exposed to certain pollutants during adolescence are far less likely to have sons in adulthood, according to a study published in today’s edition of the British scientific journal the Lancet. The study looked at thousands of people in the Taiwanese city of Yucheng who used cooking oil containing high concentrations of PCBs. It found […]

Taken to the Cleaners

A plan by the Bush administration to speed cleanups of highly radioactive military waste is provoking the ire of some powerful foes. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) said the plan — which offers an extra $800 million in cleanup funds for the next fiscal year to states that can decide by Aug. 1 how to spend […]

Always a Bribe’s Made

Apparently inspired by the 2000 Gore-Nader brouhaha, the head of New Mexico’s GOP tried to bribe Green Party leaders to field candidates in upcoming elections in order to drain votes away from Democrats. The state’s Republican Party chair, John Dendahl, spoke with Green leaders about the possibility of making a six-figure contribution to their party […]

Thursday, 11 Jul 2002

Coca Is It! Coca Is It! Efforts by the United States to combat cocaine production in Colombia by spraying coca crops with herbicides are coming up against a provision requiring the spraying to meet the same safety standards as those in the U.S. Translation: The U.S. EPA must certify that the spraying “does not pose […]