Articles by Grist staff

Holy Mackerel!

Federal guidelines to protect women of child-bearing age and babies from mercury in seafood are inadequate, according to a report released yesterday by the Environmental Working Group and U.S. Public Interest Research Group. The groups said that the dietary guidelines established this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were flawed in part because […]

Smoky Mountains

Concerned that North Carolina’s mountains are being choked by pollution from coal-fired power plants, all 50 members in the state’s Senate have asked President Bush to clean up the smokestacks of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The senators (35 Democrats, 15 Republicans) cited the work of a scientist at North Carolina State University, which found that […]

Sh*tty Group?

Students gathered in about 80 cities around the world yesterday to protest Citigroup’s role in funding environmentally destructive projects. At the company’s headquarters in New York City, demonstrators tossed the company’s signature red umbrellas and a replica of Earth into a coffin. They were objecting to projects like China’s Three Gorges Dam, an oil pipeline […]

It's a Hard-rocks Life for Us

The amount of toxic chemicals emitted by industry in the U.S. grew by 5 percent in 1999, the U.S. EPA said yesterday in its annual Toxics Release Inventory. Two-thirds of the 7.7 billion pounds of chemicals came from hard-rock mining companies and electric power-plant operators. Four mining states — Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Alaska — […]