Trump’s agenda won’t let his energy secretary achieve ‘energy abundance’
Feb 4, 2025, 4:45 am By Gautama Mehta
Chris Wright, a Colorado fracking executive, was confirmed on Monday by the U.S. Senate with a vote of 59 to 38 to become the Secretary of Energy. Wright’s nomination hearing, held last month before the Senate’s Committee on Energy and Natural Resources,…How farmworkers in Washington state got lawmakers’ attention
Feb 4, 2025, 4:30 am By Syris Valentine
Hoarfrost still coated the Capitol lawn in Olympia, Washington, as Alfredo Juarez led 16 farmworkers across the grounds to the first of three meetings with lawmakers from the state’s 40th legislative district. The cadre marshaled by Juarez, the campaigns…Sámi need better legal protections to save their homelands
Feb 4, 2025, 4:15 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
A new report from Amnesty International says “green colonialism” — the appropriation of land and resources for environmental purposes — threatens indigenous Sámi culture in Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Written with the input of the Saami Council, a…‘Plastics are awesome’: Inside the Energy Department’s partnership with the plastics industry
Feb 3, 2025, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
This story is a partnership between Grist and ExxonKnews, a reporting project covering the fossil fuel industry. Nearly five years ago, the United States Department of Energy, or DOE, began an unusual partnership with the country’s largest lobbying group for…Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land
Feb 3, 2025, 4:30 am By Katie Myers
On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a reclaimed strip mine to celebrate a homecoming. “It’s a return of an ancestor,” DeVaughan said. “It’s a return of a relative.” …‘No rebuilding without them’: Trump’s immigration crackdown will affect disaster recovery
Feb 2, 2025, 9:00 am By Nina Lakhani, The Guardian
Trump’s immigration crackdown could cause chaos for communities trying to rebuild after devastating wildfires and floods, as the vast majority of skilled disaster-restoration workers are immigrants, a leading expert has warned. Republican and Democratic…Maui’s post-wildfire housing crisis offers a warning for Los Angeles
Feb 1, 2025, 9:00 am By Jack Ross, Capital and Main
It wasn’t the images of flames ripping through neighborhoods in Pacific Palisades and Altadena this month that really triggered Jordan Hocker’s anxiety. It was the flood of social media posts about rent-gouging in nearby Los Angeles County communities…Oh, great: Rat populations are surging as cities heat up
Jan 31, 2025, 2:00 pm By Matt Simon
Rats are in many ways better adapted to cities than the humans that built them. While urbanites struggle with crowds, sparse parking spaces, and their upstairs neighbors stomping around at 4 a.m., rats are living their best lives. Huddled safely underground,…A Michigan nuclear plant is slated to restart, but Trump could complicate things
Jan 31, 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 owners of a shuttered nuclear plant on the shores of Lake Michigan are still banking on its historic reopening later this year, despite the…Trump wants more drilling, but the oil market is already saturated
Jan 31, 2025, 4:30 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. Despite President Donald Trump’s calls to…Mango farms where? Climate change is scrambling where the world’s food is grown.
Jan 30, 2025, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Twelve years ago, Vincenzo Amata stumbled upon a plot of flowering trees while wandering the Sicilian countryside. Before long, he found a farmer tending the grove. As Amata asked one question after another, the stranger tugged a mango off a tree and offered…Trump wants Greenland. But what does Greenland want?
Jan 30, 2025, 4:30 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
In 2019, then-President Donald Trump suggested the United States “buy Greenland” — as a matter of national security. Now in office again, Trump has continued to push for acquisition of the island, illustrated by a recent “horrendous” call with…Lab-grown meat rebrands itself to woo Trump — and RFK Jr.
Jan 30, 2025, 4:15 am By Frida Garza
The chicken before me had neither lived nor died, but it did look really tasty. Five stories up, in a sunny event space tucked away in New York City’s Little Italy earlier this month, chefs had been busy preparing chicken lo mein noodles, empanadas, and…‘Paranoia and distrust’: How Trump’s mass firing of government watchdogs will affect climate policy
Jan 29, 2025, 12:42 pm By Zoya Teirstein
In 2019, President Donald Trump appointed a lawyer named Mark Lee Greenblatt to root out fraud, abuse, and corruption in the Department of the Interior. Greenblatt quickly got to work, directing his 270 staff members to conduct audits, inspections, and…Fiction to reality: Bridging the urban-rural divide
Jan 29, 2025, 9:50 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “Vivian’s loved images of cities ever since she was little, thrilled by the novelty of crowds and skyscrapers and teeming streets. She knew she’d been born in Chicago, had even been a baby there for a few years before her mama died, so that…Almost half of US states haven’t done the bare minimum to cut utility bills
Jan 29, 2025, 4:15 am By Tik Root
During his first week in office, President Trump withdrew from the Paris climate agreement, declared an energy emergency, renewed his vow to “drill, baby, drill,” and began dismantling American climate policy. That has left environmental advocates looking…In meat- and fish-loving Japan, veganism is making a comeback
Jan 29, 2025, 4:00 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
All is quiet at 10:30 a.m. on a Thursday in Shibuya, Tokyo’s famous commercial district. In an alleyway just steps from one of the busiest train stations in the world, a short line of tourists huddles outside of a bar. Finally, half an hour later, the door…Climate change primed LA to burn — catastrophically
Jan 28, 2025, 5:01 pm By Matt Simon
From the first reports of wildfires breaking out around Los Angeles earlier this month, scientists could say that climate change had worsened the blazes. Sure, wildfires would burn in California regardless of planetary warming, but extra-dry fuels had turned…Trump says he’s sending water to LA. It’s actually going to megafarms.
Jan 28, 2025, 3:30 pm By Jake Bittle
While President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of far-reaching decrees during his first week in office, one relatively niche issue has received a disproportionate share of the president’s ire and attention: California water policy. That might make sense if…Moving from climate doomerism to optimism through humor
Jan 28, 2025, 9:30 am By Grist Creative
The video’s name itself might bust you up: “Face Plant: Sexy Soil Talk.” Dirt isn’t often considered hot. And with the face of actor Nick Offerman of Parks and Recreation buried up to his neck in soil, viewers knew this was bound to be funny. Offerman…
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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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