Congress agrees on one thing: Expanding access to the outdoors
Feb 12, 2025, 10:59 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “The goal is that we’re growing the recreation economy for all recreation. So the hikers and bikers and hunters and anglers and skiers and snowmobilers and boaters and ATVers — we’re looking at what we all agree on. And we all agree on…Georgia was about to retire coal plants. Then came the data centers.
Feb 12, 2025, 4:45 am By Emily Jones
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station. Three years ago, one of the country’s largest electric utilities, Southern Company, made a splash when it announced it would retire most of its coal-fired…‘It’s demoralizing’: Trump’s climate funding freeze has left tribes and community groups in limbo
Feb 12, 2025, 4:30 am By Naveena Sadasivam
When the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe landed a $19.9 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency in early January, Robert Byrnes was elated. As a grant writer for the tribe, he and a few other employees had pulled 60-hour weeks during the holidays…Trump’s push for ‘efficiency’ may destroy the EPA. What does that mean for you?
Feb 12, 2025, 4:15 am By Lylla Younes
In keeping with the promises he made while on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump has begun the process of shrinking the Environmental Protection Agency. It started on January 28, about a week after he was sworn in for his second term. That day, around…Trump’s budget cuts could kill your local weather forecast — and put you in danger
Feb 12, 2025, 4:00 am By Tik Root
Almost everyone has heard of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its offshoot, the National Weather Service. Meteorologists depend upon it to offer accurate local forecasts, and its alerts and advisories warn millions of people about…Trump moves to halt $5B EV-charging program
Feb 11, 2025, 4:15 am By Jeff St. John, Canary Media
The Trump administration has declared that it is rescinding guidance for a $5 billion program that funds EV-charging installations nationwide, potentially halting states’ plans to put billions of obligated but as-yet unspent dollars to work. It’s the…Iced out? Research on the Great Lakes goes ahead amid funding chaos.
Feb 10, 2025, 4:45 am By Izzy Ross
This coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan. The chaos surrounding the future of scientific research in the Trump administration’s first weeks has meant a bumpy beginning for a new program…BlocPower promised to help electrify Ithaca. Now it has ended its support.
Feb 9, 2025, 9:00 am By Rebecca Redelmeier, WSKG
In 2021, the small city of Ithaca announced it would electrify all of its 6,000 buildings with the help of one key partner: a technology company called BlocPower, whose then-CEO Donnel Baird said the company would make the mass electrification process fast and…North Carolina launches first-ever statewide electrification incentives
9:00am By Elizabeth Ouzts, Canary Media
As temperatures dipped well below freezing last month in Asheville, North Carolina, the heat pumps at Sophie Mullinax’s house hummed along, keeping up just fine. The fact she was warm inside without a gas furnace while the outdoor temperature…In Seattle, advocacy groups pitch ‘social housing’ as a climate solution
Fri 7:53pm By Joseph Winters
In 2023, Seattle voters authorized the city to create a new organization to develop “social housing,” a type of publicly-owned affordable housing that accommodates low- and middle-income renters. Now, as residents prepare to vote on another ballot…2 obscure clean energy metals are caught in the crosshairs of the US-China trade war
Fri 4:45am By Maddie Stone
In the summer of 2023, Vasileios Tsianos, the vice president of corporate development at Neo Performance Materials, started getting calls from government officials on both sides of the Atlantic. Within the world of industrial material manufacturing, Neo is…The odds are Illinois won’t hit its 2030 climate goals
Fri 4:30am By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. Four years ago, Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the Climate Equitable Jobs Act, an ambitious suite of…Trump’s quest for ‘energy dominance’ is all about the vibes
Feb 6, 2025, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
When President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring a “national energy emergency” hours after being sworn into office, something conspicuous was missing from his definition of energy. It consisted of a list of petroleum products, with nods to…Colorado and Connecticut saved residents hundreds of thousands of dollars on their utility bills
Feb 6, 2025, 4:30 am By Akielly Hu
People across the U.S. receiving rising utility bills aren’t just paying for the costs of gas and electricity: They could also be paying for corporate lobbying and advertising. Electric and gas utilities routinely charge ratepayers for costs related to…Rice paddies, like cows, spew methane. A new variety makes them a lot less gassy.
Feb 6, 2025, 4:15 am By Matt Simon
The poor things can’t help it, but cows are really gassy, and that’s really bad for the planet: Microbes in their guts produce methane — a greenhouse gas up to 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide — which comes out as burps. Consequently,…Veganism has deep roots in Japan’s history. It’s beginning to resurface.
Feb 5, 2025, 9:57 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “I want people to understand that vegan food isn’t just for a select few. It’s an inclusive eating style. Reaching beyond the vegan community is essential for creating a vegan-friendly world.” — Azumi Yamanaka, a vegan activist in Tokyo…The ‘recycled’ plastic in your shoes, shirts, and bags? It’s still destined for the landfill.
Feb 5, 2025, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging like potato chip bags and candy wrappers. This kind of…Exxon is quietly planning a new $8.6 billion plastics plant in Texas
Feb 5, 2025, 4:30 am By Tik Root
Diane Wilson had heard rumors for months that Exxon might be coming to Point Comfort, Texas, which sits on the Gulf Coast south of Galveston. She recalls whispers about the global behemoth hiring local electricians and negotiating railroad access. Two days…The scramble to save critical climate data from Trump’s war on DEI
Feb 5, 2025, 4:15 am By Naveena Sadasivam
When the White House took down a critical environmental justice tool just three days into President Trump’s administration, a team of data scientists and academics sprang into action. They had prepared for this exact moment, having created a list of 250…How Trump’s USAID shutdown threatens the world’s climate goals
Feb 4, 2025, 3:56 pm By Jake Bittle
As part of a broad effort to bypass Congress and unilaterally cut government spending, the Trump administration has all but shut down operations at the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, the independent federal body that delivers humanitarian…
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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
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