Articles by Grist staff

Yuck a Mountain

Federal scientists studying Nevada’s Yucca Mountain say they have uncovered no environmental factors that would rule out the site as a future home for waste from nuclear power plants, according to a draft environmental impact statement released on Friday. Officials did, however, acknowledge “a substantial amount of uncertainty associated with estimates of long-term repository performance.” […]

Governors to Agree on Gibberish

Today the nation’s governors, at their annual summer meeting, will adopt a made-up word as their new environmental doctrine: Enlibra, a term used by Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt (R) and Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) to describe their doctrine of resolving environmental conflicts through negotiation. The Enlibra policy statement, expected to be approved unanimously by […]

Estrada Chips Away at Logging

Some Asian officials are beginning to recognize that the effects of annual monsoons and typhoons in the region are exacerbated by human-caused environmental degradation. Rampant logging of forests and illegal quarrying loosen silt that thereby clogs rivers and worsens flooding. Philippine Pres. Joseph Estrada is particularly concerned about the loss of forested land and has […]

Hump Day

Martin Sheen joined some 400 anti-nuclear activists in a mile-long protest march outside the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico yesterday, the 54th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. Protestors called for an end to the lab’s production of new plutonium pits, which are the cores of nuclear bombs. The protestors were briefly […]