Articles by Grist staff

Something in the Air

Almost all doubt has been removed that particulate pollution causes significant health problems, according to U.S. EPA scientists working on a draft review of the issue. The review takes into account 3,000 new health studies published since 1997, the year that the agency decided to move forward with a new standard for particulates. The pollution […]

Standards and the Poor

In a precedent-setting decision for the environmental-justice movement, a federal judge last week blocked the opening of a cement additive plant in a poor black neighborhood in Camden, N.J. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection gave the go-ahead to the plant last October after determining that it would not exceed federal air-pollution limits. But […]

Gold Mettle

Eight environmental activists tonight will receive the world’s most prestigious environmental award, the Goldman Environmental Prize. Awards of $125,000 will be given to Oscar Olivera, a Bolivian labor leader working for clean and affordable water; Yosepha Alomang, an Indonesian activist trying to preserve land and culture in West Papua; Giorgos Catsadorakis and Myrsini Malakou, two […]

To Drill or Not to Drill. That Is Still the Question

Karl Rove, President Bush’s chief strategist, has told an oil industry lobbyist that Bush isn’t going to spend a lot of political capital to win congressional approval for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, reports Time magazine. Yesterday, on Earth Day, U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman said that the secretive White House energy […]