Articles by Grist staff

Environmental news has been hard to find since Sept. 11

I was lounging at my local coffee shop, wondering how the barista got that giant nose ring out each night, when Flym Wyntrobski barged through the door, all flapping elbows and gangly legs. He plopped down in a chair at my table, pulled something crunchy from his unkempt beard, examined it, and popped it in […]

Not OK Corral

The Earth Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for the Oct. 15 firebombing of a corral owned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management near the California-Nevada border. The bomb started a blaze that caused $85,000 of damage to the Litchfield horse facility, 80 miles north of Reno. No one was injured in the fire, and […]

Crystal Mess

Here’s a troubling source of toxins that hasn’t made it onto the average environmentalist’s radar screen: methamphetamine labs. For every pound of the illegal stimulant produced, six pounds of toxic waste are left behind. Not surprisingly, there’s no environmental oversight for meth labs, so the toxic waste is often dumped into rivers or directly onto […]

Green Gobblin'

The environment has been a defining issue in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race, where Democrat James McGreevey and Republican Bret Schundler are vying to lead the nation’s most densely populated state. McGreevey, who says eight years of Republican control by former governor and current U.S. EPA head Christie Whitman were bad for the state’s environment, is […]