Articles by Grist staff

Pretty Soon, They'll Be Selling Decaf Water

Rivers and groundwater are being contaminated with minute amounts of everything from antibiotics and birth control pills to chemicals used in cosmetics, scientists said this week at the American Chemical Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco. The issue is only beginning to be studied, and scientists have no idea what the combined effects on humans […]

Grand Piano

President Clinton yesterday announced tighter limits on sightseeing flights over Grand Canyon National Park, an effort to restore “natural quiet” to one of the nation’s busiest national parks. The new rules will cap the number of flights at 90,000 a year and make 75 percent of the park off-limits to planes and helicopters, up from […]

I Want My TVA

On Earth Day, April 22, the Tennessee Valley Authority will launch a “Green Power Switch” program, the biggest clean energy project in the Southeast. By the end of the year, TVA plans to erect three wind turbines on a reclaimed strip mine, put solar panels at schools and other public sites, and construct a landfill […]

Isn't it Good, Certified Wood

Consumer demand in Washington state for eco-friendly lumber is surpassing supply, even as a growing number of wood products firms turn to harvesting and selling timber from sustainably managed forests. The state Department of Natural Resources just announced that it would like to have as much as 1.1 million acres of state forestland certified as […]