Articles by Grist staff

GOP Ever-Glad to Block Gore

House Republicans are trying to withhold millions of dollars for a Florida Everglades restoration project backed by Vice Pres. Al Gore unless the Clinton administration can “ensure a restored ecosystem.” The Republicans also want to give the Interior Department a greater voice in the restoration project; now the Army Corps of Engineers has most of […]

What Price No Success?

The public in 2000 will spend nearly $1 billion to save salmon in the Northwest. That according to a tabulation by the Portland Oregonian, with input from the six federal agencies and four states most involved in the restoration effort. Previously, nobody had attempted to track overall spending on the fish. Not surprisingly, right-leaning members […]

Land of Milk and 2-D-Phenylanlanine

British babies feeding on breast milk could be receiving as much as 40 times World Heath Organization-recommended levels of a wide range of chemicals, according to a report from the World Wildlife Fund in the U.K. The report identified 87 dioxins and 190 other chemicals from industrial pollution and pesticides, including possible endocrine-disrupters, in the […]

DOJ-ing a Bullet?

The Justice Department on Monday requested that a full appeals court reconsider a recent ruling by a three-judge panel that overturned the Clinton administration’s clean-air standards for ozone and particulates. The DOJ hopes that the full court in Washington, D.C., agrees with its assessment that the panel was mistaken in concluding that the EPA lacked […]