Articles by Grist staff

Activists Go Critical

More than 130 environmental, health, and anti-nuclear activists this week protested the composition of a new panel of scientists that will try to determine the cancer risks from low doses of radiation. In a letter to the National Academy of Scientists, under which the high-profile panel has been formed, the activists charged that the 20-member […]

States to Air Differences in Court

A proposed compromise clean air plan between Midwestern states and Northeastern states has been rejected by parties on both sides, making it highly likely that the long-running dispute will be resolved only in court. Some of the Northeast states, which are forced to cope with pollution that blows in from power plants and other polluters […]

From the Folks Who Brought You the Bomb

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory say they have found a way to help tackle the problem of climate change by combining carbon dioxide, the most abundant greenhouse gas, with common magnesium- or calcium-bearing minerals. The resulting mixture, a mineral carbonate, would trap the CO2 and prevent it from reaching and […]

At Loggerheads

Several dozen environmental groups will send a letter to Pres. Clinton today expressing “deep disappointment” over administration policy on Northwest forests. The enviros believe the administration’s Northwest Forest Plan, put in place in 1993, provides far too little protection for old growth. The timber industry, for its part, maintains that the plan is unworkable because […]