Articles by Grist staff

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 […]

Cravin' Votes, Craven Move

In marked contrast to European leaders who have refused to bend to public pressure to lower gasoline prices — some even stating concerns about conservation and global warming — Vice President Al Gore yesterday urged President Clinton to dip into the country’s emergency petroleum stockpiles to make heating oil cheaper before winter (read: Election Day). […]

Carbon Stink

Old-growth forests are much better at removing carbon dioxide from the air than plantations of new forests, concludes a new study published today in the journal Science. In negotiations over an international treaty on climate change, the U.S., along with Canada and Russia, is proposing to meet as much as half of its greenhouse gas […]