Articles by Grist staff

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 […]

Hard of Herring

Underwater noise from supertankers, oil drilling, and military sonar may be drastically disrupting the living patterns of whales, seals, and other sea life, according to a report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The group contends that the noises could tamper with the creatures’ natural communication systems and cause them to deviate from […]

Trade Remarks

Britain’s top 25 companies are joining together on Thursday to launch a greenhouse gas emissions-trading system in an attempt to persuade the government to drop plans for a carbon tax that could cost polluters as much as $3.2 billion a year. A spokesperson for BP Amoco said the companies, which also include Royal Dutch Shell […]