Articles by Grist staff

Double, Double for Soil and Trouble

Laying the groundwork for what may become the first environmental law signed by President Bush, the U.S. Senate yesterday voted 99-0 to more than double spending to clean up of hundreds of thousands of moderately contaminated and abandoned industrial sites around the country. In the past, developers have often steered clear of the sites, known […]

Caught With Their Briefs Down

The White House has told the Justice Department to figure out a legal way to cast aside former President Clinton’s plan to ban road-building and logging on 58.5 million acres of national forestland, reports the Washington Post. The Bush administration has until the end of next week to file a brief in an Idaho federal […]

Smells Like Clean Spirit

Environmentalists in Kuwait — indeed a rare breed — celebrated scent-free, fresh air on Earth Day in the town of al-Qurain, nine miles south of Kuwait City. Thirty years ago, before the town was developed, officials began dumping the nation’s trash in an abandoned quarry in al-Qurain. Fifteen years later, housing went up, and residents […]

Nappy Stir Up

Environmental groups in the U.K. want the country’s National Health Service to spearhead a campaign to use cloth nappies (that’s Brit for “diapers”) instead of disposable ones. The Women’s Environmental Network says parents attending pre-natal classes in the U.K. are shown only how to put a disposable nappy on an infant — and that’s wrong, […]