Articles by Grist staff

A River Runs Sioux It

The EPA yesterday settled a lawsuit and agreed to study why children have taken ill after playing in a river that runs through a South Dakota Indian reservation. The Oglala Sioux Indian tribe and six South Dakota environmental groups had filed suit against the EPA for failing to enforce water pollution laws in the state. […]

Demand Hops for Wind Power

The New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins, Colo., will buy all the power produced by a new wind turbine in Wyoming, prompting one official to propose that the turbine be painted to resemble a giant bottle of Fat Tire beer, which the brewery produces. The turbine is one of five scheduled to be installed in […]

Wild, Wild West Bank

A number of Israeli industries are dumping toxic waste in the West Bank, Palestinian officials charge, violating environmental agreements made in 1993 as part of the Oslo peace accords. Friends of the Earth Middle East, an Arab and Israeli environmental group, reported in December 1998 that there were at least 50 unauthorized hazardous waste dumps […]

I Want My DDT

As the U.N. drafts a treaty that could ban DDT worldwide, many health officials are protesting that such a ban would devastate efforts to control malaria in some developing nations. DDT, one of 12 highly toxic chemicals known as persistent organic pollutants that the U.N. plans to eliminate, is sprayed in small amounts on the […]