Articles by Grist staff

Bring Us Your Tired, Your Weary, Your Spent Nuclear Fuel

Russian officials dealt a blow to environmentalists yesterday by rejecting their petition for a national referendum that would have let citizens vote on whether to allow the import of spent nuclear fuel into the country. At least 2 million signatures were needed to force a referendum, and enviros turned in nearly 2.5 million, but the […]

Mississippi Mud

A tanker spilled more than half a million gallons of crude oil into the lower Mississippi River on Tuesday evening, one of the largest oil spills in U.S. waters since the Exxon Valdez dumped more than 10 million gallons in Alaska in 1989. The spill near Port Sulphur, La., is about 70 miles inland from […]

A Vail-ed Threat

A coalition of seven enviro groups is urging skiers to boycott many of the top ski resorts in the Western U.S. and is pointing people instead toward resorts that it says are eco-friendly. In a first-of-its-kind report released yesterday, the Ski Area Citizens Coalition ranked 60 resorts in nine states on 11 environmental issues, including […]

Tex Mess

Texas Gov. George W. Bush’s voluntary pollution cleanup program for old industrial plants in Texas has not had much success in its first 15 months, according to a draft report released yesterday by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission. Thirty-seven companies have applied for voluntary permits, but no major industrial facilities have obtained voluntary permits […]