Articles by Grist staff

I'll Take the Lowe Road

Lowe’s Cos., the second-largest home-improvement retailer in the U.S., announced today that it plans to phase out wood products that come from “endangered forests,” starting with an immediate ban on the purchase of wood from the Great Bear Rainforest region of British Columbia. The company’s pledge follows a similar one made last year by Home […]

Joe Cool

Al Gore yesterday chose as his running mate Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), a strong environmental advocate who has earned a 95 percent rating from the League of Conservation Voters over the course of his Senate career. Lieberman cosponsored the 1990 Clean Air Act; introduced legislation in 1991 to give citizens more information about pesticide dangers; […]

DOE, Oh Dear

More than two-thirds of the 144 sites related to nuclear weapons production in the U.S. will never be clean enough to allow for unrestricted public use, according to a report conducted by the National Research Council at the request of the Department of Energy. The report also found that the government’s long-term management plans for […]

Notes From the Underground

In violation of a 1998 federal deadline, state and local governments are continuing to operate thousands of old underground fuel tanks that may be leaking chemicals into water supplies. Leaking fuel tanks are the No. 1 cause of groundwater pollution in the country, tainting wells and aquifers. Private industry, leery of fines and bad publicity, […]