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Hit Below the Belt

The heavily industrial Midwest has long been afflicted with some of the worst air and water pollution in the country — but now that distinction has been handed off to […]

Kiki Hubbard, Center for Food Safety

Kiki Hubbard is an intern at the Center for Food Safety, a nonprofit organization that addresses the impacts of our current industrial food-production system on human health, animal welfare, and […]

Dam Right!

Montana Gov. Judy Martz (R) surprised her audience during last night’s State of the State address by calling for the removal of the Milltown Dam, located at the junction of […]

Wind Bags

The company behind a highly controversial proposed wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod announced yesterday that the project could be 14 percent smaller than previously anticipated, thanks to […]

Growth Spurt

Real estate was hot in Colorado during the 1990s — so hot, in fact, that many communities imposed strict controls on urban growth. Now, some people think the growth-management plans […]

The Air Up There

Air pollution may be to blame for lower birth weights and smaller skulls in African-American babies born in Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx, according to a study on childhood […]

And other words from readers

  Re: This Is Your Brain on SUVs Dear Editor: I think all these anti-SUV ads are great at educating the public on the environmental atrocities of these gas-guzzling vehicles, […]

The MLK of Human Kindness

Daily Grist won’t be published on Monday, Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. See you on Tuesday.

Oil and Accuracy Don’t Mix

The public owes much of its knowledge about the environment to journalists on the green beat — but what happens when those journalists get it systematically wrong? That’s what has […]

Glow Worms

It’s been a busy week when it comes to nuclear security. Here in the U.S., the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has agreed to overhaul its management of the nation’s atomic power […]