Articles by Grist staff

Reservations over Blackfeet Plan

Two hundred square miles of land on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation just east of Glacier National Park in Montana could soon become a huge industrial oil and natural gas development, covered with wells, roads, power lines, and processing stations. Despite the protest of the EPA and some enviros, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs […]

Denver Bronc-itis

For the first time, Colorado officials last week issued an ozone pollution alert for Denver, normally a clean-air haven this time of year. The city’s summer ground-level ozone problem is arising just as it is putting its winter carbon-monoxide pollution problem behind it. The region is one of the areas in the country growing most […]

Throwing Light on Throwing Lights

In a victory for recyclers and enviros, the EPA this week is set to ban the dumping of fluorescent light bulbs into landfills and require bulk buyers of the tubes to recycle them or throw them in special hazardous waste landfills. The new rules, which would reject a competing plan by light manufacturers to allow […]

Interior Officials Kick Back?

When the Washington, D.C.-based Project on Government Oversight helped win a lawsuit last summer against Mobil Oil for paying less than it owed the Treasury for drilling on federal lands, it decided to share its payment with two federal officials, giving them $350,000 each for their years of arguing that oil companies had not been […]