Articles by Grist staff

News Flash: Congress Still Full of Jerks

Enviros are gearing up for a fierce battle with congressional Republicans over dozens of anti-environmental riders that have been tacked onto must-pass government appropriations bills. The riders would, among other things, permit more logging and road-building on national forests without wildlife surveys; block proposed restrictions on grazing in national parks; delay a proposed tightening of […]

New Yuck State

Pres. and Hillary Rodham Clinton have received a unique gift welcoming them to their new home in Chappaqua, N.Y.: a 76-page report listing 47 known or potential toxic sites within one mile of the house the couple is buying. The report, prepared by Toxics Targeting, an environmental research company in Ithaca, N.Y., was FedEx-ed to […]

LIttle Agency on the Prairie

In Prairie City, Iowa, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is undertaking one of the most ambitious prairie restoration projects in history, transforming farmland back to prairie at the 5,000-acre Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge. A few years ago, biologists crisscrossed the state searching for prairie remnants where they could collect seeds of native prairie […]

Atomic Bombshell

Managers of a government uranium plant in Paducah, Ky., knew for decades that workers were being exposed to radiation hazards but concealed the information because of fears of a public outcry, according to documents to be released by a congressional panel this week. Memos and other documents showing what plant management knew and concealed have […]