How the devil is in the details of greener new jobs
Wed 3:00pm By Grist Creative
What makes a job sustainable — both eco-friendly and liable to stick around? That question is at…The year the US doubled down on critical minerals
Wed 9:45am By Rebecca Egan McCarthy
President Donald Trump spent most of 2025 hacking away at large parts of the federal government. His…Climate change primed Washington state for historic flooding
Tue 7:27pm By Zoya Teirstein
A long, warm plume of airborne water snaked its way from the subtropical Pacific Ocean toward the…The country’s biggest magnesium producer went bankrupt. Who’s going to clean up the $100M mess?
Tue 9:45am By Leia Larsen
Bill Johnson has witnessed the extent of US Magnesium’s pollution up close. He’s seen the…How the Trump administration is fast-tracking logging in Illinois’ only national forest
Tue 9:30am By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
When the Forest Service approved the sale of nearly 70 acres for commercial logging in southern…How Trump’s Big Ag bailout is alienating his MAHA base
Mon 9:40pm By Ayurella Horn-Muller
At a White House roundtable last Monday, president Donald Trump, alongside Agriculture Secretary…What your cheap clothes cost the planet
Mon 4:45am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the most beautiful and forbidding places on Earth, so dry that…How the planet fared in 2025 — the good, the bad, and the ugly
Mon 4:30am By Matt Simon
If we’re being honest, 2025 did not start out great. For basically the whole month of January, a…Under Trump, the National Renewable Energy Lab is losing ‘renewable’ from its name
Mon 4:15am By Sophie Hurwitz
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado is getting a name change. The groundbreaking…The EPA was considering a massive lead cleanup in Omaha. Then Trump shifted guidance.
Sun 9:00am By Chris Bowling, Flatwater Free Press
The county health worker scanned the Omaha home with an X-ray gun, searching for the poison. It was…Top Interior Department official has ties to Thacker Pass lithium mine
Sat 9:00am By Jimmy Tobias, High Country News
Karen Budd-Falen, a top official at the Department of Interior, has financial ties to the…A huge cache of critical minerals found in Utah may be the largest in the US
Fri 5:49pm By Leia Larsen
A Utah company says it has unearthed a massive deposit of minerals crucial for building electric…2025: The year the US gave up on climate, and the world gave up on us
Fri 4:45am By Naveena Sadasivam
As the year comes to a close, 2025 looks like a turning point in the world’s fight against climate…How a species of bamboo could help protect the South from future floods
Dec 11, 2025, 4:45 am By Emily Cataneo
In early 2024, Michael Fedoroff trekked out to Tuckabum Creek in York County, Alabama. The…The EPA website got the basics of climate science right. Until last week.
Dec 11, 2025, 4:30 am By Kate Yoder
If you want to know what’s causing climate change and how it affects where you live, don’t turn…When Elephants Trample Your Farm, Who Do You Call?
Dec 10, 2025, 10:00 am By Grist Creative
When Krithi Karanth walks into a forest village in the shadow of India’s Bandipur National Park,…The Navajo Nation said no to a hydropower project. Trump officials want to ensure tribes can’t do that again.
Dec 10, 2025, 4:45 am By Miacel Spotted Elk
Early last year, the hydropower company Nature and People First set its sights on Black Mesa, a…Illinois families are going electric — for free
Dec 8, 2025, 4:45 am By Kari Lydersen
Jean Gay-Robinson said she “cried tears of joy” when utility ComEd switched all the…The Trump administration’s data center push could open the door for new forever chemicals
Dec 7, 2025, 9:00 am By Molly Taft, WIRED
In recent months, the Trump administration has opened a deregulatory floodgate in the name of…The wealthy profit from public lands, and taxpayers pick up the tab
Dec 6, 2025, 9:00 am By Mark Olalde, ProPublica
Stan Kroenke doesn’t need federal help to make a business flourish. He is worth an estimated $20…
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