Articles by Grist staff

Jim Leichter, Aquarius Underwater Laboratory

Jim Leichter is a postdoctoral researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This is his fourth saturation diving mission at Aquarius, where a team of six aquanauts will spend nine days in the underwater laboratory 63 feet below the ocean’s surface in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Wednesday, 14 Jun 2000 CONCH REEF, Fla CONCH REEF, […]

Mercury in Retrograde

The Clean Air Network, a coalition of nearly 1,000 enviro groups, called on the U.S. EPA yesterday to require some 600 old, coal-burning power plants to reduce their mercury emissions by 90 percent. The aging plants, which were exempted from most pollution controls under the 1970 Clean Air Act, emit as much as 51 tons […]

Zed, last of his species, in "The Right to Arm Bears"

A Clean Slade?

Conservative Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) has entered into an odd alliance with the Sierra Club to push for higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light trucks. At a press conference last Thursday, Gorton was joined by Sierra Club official Dan Becker and Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) and Richard Bryan (Nev.) in pushing a resolution […]