Articles by Grist staff

Little Drummer Buoy

For almost a quarter-century, government and private research agencies dumped drums of radioactive waste into the waters just west of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge — and now the waste is leaking into the Gulf of Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. Federal officials say they don’t have enough money to determine the extent of the damage; […]

Doe, Oh Dear!

In the latest sad litany of pro-extraction industry decisions handed down by the federal government, the U.S. Forest Service said Friday that the Doe Run Company should be allowed to drill up to 232 holes in Missouri’s Mark Twain National Forest to search for possible lead mining sites. About 80 percent of the nation’s lead […]

Lori Urso, Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association

Lori Urso is the executive director of the Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association. Tuesday, 19 Feb 2002 HOPE VALLEY, R.I. My week begins, as my last one ended, with lingering decisions: Decisions about our board and about fund-raising; about important things (like a half-million dollar habitat restoration project) and about incidental things (like where to store an […]

Meet the New Plan, Same As the Old Plan

The story: President Bush’s plan to curb global warming, unveiled yesterday, didn’t contain many surprises. The president rejected mandatory, government-imposed limits on greenhouse gas emissions and instead said he would allocate $4.6 billion for financial incentives and new technology to combat climate change. In other words, the status would remain quo: U.S. industries could continue […]