Articles by Grist staff

More Bangkok for Your Buick

Millions of people in more than 800 cities in 30 countries are participating in a car-free day today, according to Margot Wallstroem, environment commissioner for the European Union. The day — marked throughout Europe and in other spots from Buenos Aires to Tel Aviv — is aimed at raising awareness about pollution and traffic congestion, […]

A Slade of Hand

Over the objections of Democrats and enviros, Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) tacked a rider onto a budget bill yesterday that would bar the U.S. government from conducting studies over the next year on the possibility of removing four dams on the Snake River in Washington to help salmon populations. Federal officials say they have no […]

The Weak in Review

Senate leaders yesterday blocked a proposal to reform the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by requiring independent reviews of its projects, and instead got behind a plan to have the National Academy of Sciences assess whether or not the Corps’s own review process is actually flawed. A recent series in the Washington Post examined a […]

On Fraudway

Federal officials announced yesterday that thousands of environmental safety tests performed at Superfund locations and other hazardous waste sites around the U.S. between 1994 and 1997 will have to be repeated because a testing company falsified results. Federal prosecutors are planning criminal indictments against 13 former employees of Intertek Testing Services, formerly the second-largest tester […]