Articles by Grist staff

Not Plover Lovers

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday released a long-awaited environmental impact statement for managing the Missouri River, listing six possible options but refusing to back the only one that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says would save the pallid sturgeon, least tern, and piping plover. The Corps during the Clinton administration publicly […]

Drilling Ain't Job One

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling would result in only 46,300 jobs, far fewer than the hundreds of thousands of jobs cited by some unions, according to a study released by environmental groups. The study, by Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, found numerous faults in an outdated 1990 […]

Sri-k of Horror

Sri Lanka’s proposed ban on genetically engineered foods has been delayed again, this time indefinitely. The ban would require 21 categories of food imports to be completely free of biotech products. Citing a need to study the health risks of genetically engineered foods, Sri Lanka had planned for the ban to go into effect in […]

Join Denver

Once one of the worst-polluted cities in the U.S., Denver, Colo., is on the verge of becoming the first major city in the country to comply fully with the Clean Air Act. The U.S. EPA has approved the state’s request to redesignate Denver as a clean-air city for ozone for the first time since 1978. […]