Articles by Grist staff

Specious Species Spanking Sponsored

Hoping to expedite logging in the Northwest, the Senate voted this morning to exempt the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management from conducting detailed species surveys of land before it can be logged. Sens. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho) sponsored the rider on the Interior Department appropriations bill, while Sen. Charles Robb […]

Paper Company Voluntarily Does Good Thing

The Westvaco papermaking company today will announce a five-year deal with the Nature Conservancy that will let the environmental group inspect all of the company’s 1.3 million acres of forestland and help designate areas where logging will be restricted. The two parties will agree jointly on a management plan for the land, including the amount […]

Carcinogens Without Borders

Latin American nations are gradually restricting or banning use of the most dangerous pesticides, but enforcement of rules is lax. For example, in Colombia, the hazardous insecticide endosulfan used in coffee production was prohibited in 1995, but officials say it is still widely used. In Brazil, which has one of the strictest pesticide laws in […]

Oh, That? It Was an April Fool's Joke on GM

A federal judge ruled yesterday that a website has the right to publish information from confidential Ford documents about the automaker’s efforts to build vehicles that emit far less pollution and have significantly better fuel efficiency than current models. The case is awkward for Ford because the company is now lobbying against tighter emissions and […]