Articles by Grist staff

Injustice for All

On 20th anniversary of Bhopal disaster, justice still eludes victims Thanks to bureaucratic inertia, government corruption, and corporate evasion, the citizens of Bhopal, India — site of a catastrophic 1984 gas leak that killed some 7,000 people immediately and 15,000 since — have yet to see justice, says a new report from Amnesty International, released […]

Coming Clean

Green start-ups attracting substantial venture capital Investor interest in eco-friendly start-ups has taken a leap with the entry of two big venture-capital players into the field. Two California public pension funds — the largest and third-largest in the U.S. — recently announced plans to invest a combined $950 million in the clean-technology field in coming […]

Oops, We Did It Again

Native Americans at risk from toxic military leftovers More than a century ago, the U.S. slaughtered a bunch of indigenous folks and put the rest on reservations in the most arid, isolated, undesirable parts of the American West. A new study shows that many closed military sites in the Lower 48 states — including bombing […]

Paulding Gray

Mega-farms in Ohio offer stench but little else to communities The Plain Dealer examines the effects of eight giant hog farms built in Paulding County, Ohio, since 1994 and five mega-dairies since 2000, and comes away with a grim cautionary tale. A number of local families have fled from their homes, some unable to live […]