Articles by Grist staff

Black Gold, Frank "Incensed" Murkowski

Dealing a blow to plans to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, Republicans on the U.S. House Budget Committee have declined to include any anticipated revenue from the drilling in the federal government budget for the next fiscal year. The chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), […]

Body, Wanna Test My Body, Body

A study released by U.S. health officials yesterday showed for the first time that most Americans carry detectable levels of plastics, pesticides, and heavy metals in their blood and urine. The study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention measured the presence of 27 chemicals in humans and found levels in the average […]

The case for oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Who doesn’t want to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? It’ll be fun! We will wear special outfits, and when the oil gets in our mustaches, we’ll take silly pictures and send them as postcards. The future, now more than ever, is a vast, inky utopia. Babies will squeal with delight and […]

Roadless Travailed

The Bush administration was hoping to have more time to figure out how to roll back rules approved by the Clinton administration to ban road-building and logging on a third of the country’s national forests — but a federal judge threw a kink into that plan yesterday. The judge denied the administration’s plea to delay […]