How Citibank got caught in a $20 billion climate fight
Mar 12, 2025, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
In the chaotic first few weeks of the Trump administration, as the government has frozen and unfrozen billions of dollars of federal funding, Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin has focused on one program in particular. For almost a month, he has…Supreme Court declines to hear Republicans’ ‘Hail Mary’ effort to block climate lawsuits
Mar 12, 2025, 4:30 am By Joseph Winters
The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that it would not hear a case seeking to stop climate lawsuits in five Democratic-led states, which are seeking financial damages from oil and gas companies for having obscured the connection between their products and…In Trump’s new purge of climate language, even ‘resilience’ isn’t safe
Mar 11, 2025, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
In his first hours back in the White House in January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship.” Yet it was immediately clear he was in fact imposing rules on language, ordering the…Earth’s orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are making the problem worse
Mar 10, 2025, 2:46 pm By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. This constellation of machinery is the technological backbone of modern life, making GPS, weather forecasts, and live television broadcasts…Efforts were underway to prevent CO2 pipeline leaks. The Trump administration quietly derailed them.
Mar 10, 2025, 4:45 am By Tristan Baurick
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and Verite News, a nonprofit news organization with a mission to produce in-depth journalism in underserved communities in the New Orleans area. Nearly five years after a pipeline spewed poison…In Canada, Indigenous advocates argue mining companies violate the rights of nature
Mar 10, 2025, 4:30 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
In Western legal systems, arguments against pollution or the destruction of the environment tend to focus exclusively on people: It’s wrong to contaminate a river, for example, because certain humans depend on the river for drinking water. But what if the…‘We’re losing our environmental history’: The future of government information under Trump
Mar 9, 2025, 9:00 am By Jessica McKenzie
As the director of the National Security Archive’s Climate Change Transparency Project, Rachel Santarsiero is in the business of monitoring and facilitating the flow of information from the government to the public. What she’s seeing now, in the first…‘It’s all been scrapped’: Bootcamps for women in wildland firefighting canceled after DEI cuts
9:00am By Jessica Kutz, The 19th
While Mikaela Balkind was working on her degree at the University of Washington in 2018, she was looking for a way to bridge her two interests in natural resource management and climate science. So when she came across a friend’s Instagram post about a women…How a Trump effort to cut environmental red tape could backfire
Fri 4:45am By Naveena Sadasivam
For roughly half a century, a little-known body called the White House Council on Environmental Quality has been in charge of overseeing implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, a 1970 statute widely considered the “Magna Carta” of…Oil companies are dropping renewable goals — and more importantly, expanding fossil fuels
Fri 4:30am By Tik Root
Last week, British Petroleum announced that it was slashing more than $5 billion in planned green energy investments. It was a marked departure from the early 2000s, when the oil giant branded itself as “beyond petroleum,” and even 2020, when the company…Biden had a plan to keep America’s EV chargers in good working order. Trump pulled the plug.
Fri 4:15am By Maddie Stone
Public electric vehicle chargers break down for a variety of reasons. Pins on the connector that attaches the charger cable to the vehicle can bend or break, preventing a complete connection. The screen customers interact with to make payments can go dark or…Forget about your carbon footprint. Try ‘climatemaxxing.’
Mar 6, 2025, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
There’s now an easy way to turn any aspect of life into something to optimize — just add “-maxxing.” Gymmaxxing is about getting ripped. Moneymaxxing means accumulating wealth as fast as possible. Over the past couple of years, this social media-driven…Where Hollywood — and the Oscars — still miss the mark on climate representation
Mar 5, 2025, 10:50 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “I need help making meaning of all this. And stories have always been how humans make sense of our world.” — Anna Jane Joyner, founder and CEO of Good Energy The spotlight If you watched the Oscars this weekend, you might have been paying…Slim margins, climate disasters, and Trump’s funding freeze: Life or death for many US farms
Mar 5, 2025, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
When the Trump administration first announced a freeze on all federal funding in January, farmers across the country were thrust into an uncertain limbo. More than a month later, fourth-generation farmer Adam Chappell continues to wait on the U.S. Department…Utilities may soon pay you to help support a greener grid
Mar 5, 2025, 4:30 am By Matt Simon
Every month you pay an electricity bill, because there’s no choice if you want to keep the lights on. The power flows in one direction. But soon, utilities might desperately need something from you: electricity. A system increasingly loaded with wind and…How Trump’s trade war could impact U.S. electricity prices — and state climate plans
Mar 4, 2025, 7:27 pm By Zoya Teirstein
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump initiated a trade war with Canada and Mexico, America’s two largest trading partners. Following through on weeks of threats, he imposed 25 percent tariffs on imported goods from Mexico and Canada and a lower 10 percent…How Washington State pioneered an “all hands, all lands” wildfire prevention strategy
Mar 4, 2025, 10:33 am By Grist Creative
In January 2025, wildfire driven by hurricane-force winds ripped through Los Angeles County. Over a frightening 48 hours, embers soared for miles, destroying thousands of homes and killing 29 people. Preliminary estimates named these fires as the costliest in…Trump’s energy secretary pushed legal attack on green investing
Mar 4, 2025, 4:45 am By Sasha Chavkin, The Examination
This story is published in partnership with The Examination, a news organization that investigates global health threats. Sign up to subscribe to The Examination’s newsletter. Say you’re an American worker with a retirement plan. Out of concern for the…Big banks abandoned a voluntary climate alliance. Now, critics are calling for new laws.
Mar 3, 2025, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
In the lead-up to Inauguration Day, all six of the United States’ largest banks backed away from a United Nations-sponsored climate initiative amid attacks from conservative lawmakers and regulators. Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan,…This ancient bit of ingenuity keeps carbon trapped for thousands of years
Mar 3, 2025, 4:30 am By Matt Simon
For all its plant and animal life aboveground, the Amazon rainforest’s soils are surprisingly poor in nutrients necessary for growing food. Thousands of years ago, the region’s Indigenous peoples solved this problem by creating “terra preta” from table…
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9:00am By Dylan Baddour & Arcelia Martin, Inside Climate News - New study shows huge groundwater losses along Colorado River
Sat 9:00am By Alex Hager, KUNC - The transfer of a sacred site to a copper mine is delayed once again
Fri 5:40pm By Miacel Spotted Elk - Youth climate activists won lawsuits in Montana and Hawai‘i. Now they’re targeting Trump.
Fri 5:29pm By Sophie Hurwitz - How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will raise household energy costs
Fri 4:45am By Naveena Sadasivam - How 3 years of war have ravaged Ukraine’s forests, and the people who depend on them
Thu 4:45am By Chad Small - In California’s largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River
Thu 4:30am By Anita Hofschneider - The smoke from Canada’s wildfires may be even more toxic than usual
Thu 4:15am By Matt Simon - Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous peoples around the world
Wed 10:00am By Graham Lee Brewer, The Associated Press - Funding to protect American cities from extreme heat just evaporated
Wed 4:45am By Matt Simon
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