Articles by Grist staff

Burying the Corps

The National Wildlife Federation and Taxpayers for Common Sense are teaming up today to release a report that criticizes 25 Army Corps of Engineers projects as environmentally destructive and a waste of more than $6 billion. One of the projects blasted in the report is a billion-dollar expansion of barge locks on the upper Mississippi […]

A Sock in the Eye

About 50 orcas from two pods that live in the waters near Washington state’s San Juan Islands have migrated to California’s Monterey Bay, 1,000 miles farther south than they’ve ever been seen before, most likely because salmon in Washington are in such short supply. In the past, the orcas could count on a year-round supply […]

My Sediments Exactly

The U.S. Forest Service is sure to stir up controversy today when it proposes a new policy that would make it more difficult to construct roads in the 155 national forests in the U.S. Most such roads are built for logging, and many of them are eroding and dumping sediment into waterways, endangering fish. Under […]

Old King Coal Was a Dirty Old Soul

The U.S. government yesterday expanded an ongoing legal battle against dirty, coal-burning power plants, adding 12 plants to a lawsuit it filed against utilities in November. The move comes just one day after the feds announced a landmark settlement under which a Florida utility will spend some $1 billion to clean up two dirty facilities. […]