Articles by Grist staff

A roundup of news snippets

• A U.S. EPA program that evaluates the effect of chemicals on children is basically defunct. • Strip-mined Appalachian mountains are being planted with chestnut trees. • A Montana dam is breached to clean up toxic sediment. • Snorting cocaine is bad for the environment. • Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, and Costa Rica race to […]

Land swap would allow drilling in Alaska wildlife refuge, two huge solar projects slated for Califor

Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Like a Bat Out of Help An Offer We Can’t Refuge Go Toward the Light We Detect a Seal Change Law & Order: Species Victims Unit Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Garbage, Man Different Beasts All the World’s a Shag

EPA announces new lead standards for renovation of older buildings

Contractors will have to train workers to follow “lead-safe work practice standards” when renovating or repairing older dwellings that house children or pregnant women, according to new standards introduced Monday by the U.S. EPA. The new requirements are an attempt to keep lead out of the bloodstreams of babes, as structures built before 1978 are […]

Polar bear ventures far inland, shot to death

Having boldly gone where no polar bear has gone before, a 3-year-old female polar bear was shot dead 250 miles inland in Fort Yukon, Alaska, last week. Hunters who thought they were tracking a grizzly bear shot the polar bear in what they say was self-defense; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the […]