Articles by Grist staff

Forest Gunk

Europe’s forests are sick and getting sicker, according to a new report released yesterday by the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe and the European Commission. The comprehensive analysis found that only 35 percent of the continent’s trees are “healthy,” about 40 percent are in a “warning stage,” and about 25 percent are “damaged,” meaning they […]

Bush Whacked

Vice Pres. Al Gore accused GOP presidential frontrunner Gov. George W. Bush yesterday of letting Texas become the most polluted state in the nation, number one in toxic releases into the air, water, and soil, according to EPA numbers, and home to Houston, the city with the worst smog in the country. A Bush spokesperson […]

Poly Wants a Cleanup

General Electric will cough up more than $250 million to clean the Housatonic River near its plant in Pittsfield, Mass., to settle government charges that the company polluted the river with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other hazardous substances from the 1930s until 1977. But the company’s not off the hook yet. New York’s attorney general […]

Bummin' Range

Much to the chagrin of enviros, Congress has given the military primary responsibility for managing more than 1.6 million acres of the Sonoran desert in southwestern Arizona, encompassing most of the Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range. Although a law signed Wednesday requires the military to work with the Interior Department on a management plan, enviros […]