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Giving Up the Ghost Fleet

U.S. Navy Ships Get Ready for Transatlantic Trip, Toxics and All Thirteen is not a lucky number, and many fear that bad luck could trail in the wake of 13 […]

It Was Fund While It Lasted

Superfund Money Will Be Gone in One Month, GAO Says The countdown has begun: In one month, the Superfund will run out of money, according to a new study by […]

Andy Holdsworth, conservation biologist

Andy Holdsworth is a PhD candidate in conservation biology at the University of Minnesota. He studies the ecological effects and conservation implications of nonnative earthworms in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Tuesday, […]

Trickle-down Economics

Saving Forests Can Mean Clean Water for Cities Cities around the world could save billions of dollars on water-treatment plants if they dedicated resources to protecting nearby forests, which naturally […]

For the Shell of It

Shell Won’t Drill at U.N. World Heritage Sites Royal Dutch/Shell, one of the world’s biggest oil companies, has pledged not to explore or drill for oil or gas on U.N.-designated […]

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, New Fish

New Fish Species Discovered in Venezuela In an era of mass extinction, it’s always nice to hear about the discovery of new species. So the members of an expedition sponsored […]

Rest Assured

We Gristers will be taking a break on Labor Day, but have no fear — we’ll be back on Tuesday, Sept. 2. Have a swell weekend.

Vehicular Geocide

EPA Declines to Regulate Greenhouse Gases Automakers and oil companies will not be required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, the U.S. EPA announced yesterday. In 1999, three environmental […]

Readers sound off on Kucinich, Roundup, speciesism, and more

  Re: Pigs in Open Space Dear Editor: There is nothing in this article about pigs and your use of the word as an insult to greedy, gluttonous developers is […]

Vermiculite at the End of the Tunnel

Company Ordered to Pay for Cleanup of Montana Town In the largest trial judgment awarded in the history of the Superfund law, a federal judge yesterday ordered W.R. Grace and […]