What Election Day looked like for voters in hurricane-battered communities across Florida and North Carolina
Nov 5, 2024, 8:39 pm By Zoya Teirstein
Early Tuesday afternoon, Kurt Wilkening drove to his usual Election Day polling location at a church in Sarasota, Florida. But the 90-year-old quickly discovered no one there, the building destroyed by flooding during hurricanes Milton and Helene earlier this…A stormy Election Day in southwest Louisiana
Nov 5, 2024, 8:01 pm By Lylla Younes
Election Day in Lake Charles, Louisiana began with heavy rain and tornado warnings. Belts of precipitation traveling up from the Gulf of Mexico hammered the city in the early morning hours, and let up by the early afternoon. At polling locations across the…Election Day in the disaster zone
Nov 5, 2024, 1:39 pm By Zoya Teirstein
Hello, and welcome to our special Election Day edition of State of Emergency. I’m Zoya Teirstein, and today I’m reporting from rainy Buncombe County, North Carolina. I spent the morning talking to voters at the Fairview Public Library — one of 17…This California congressman is betting the farm on water
Nov 5, 2024, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
This story is part of State of Emergency, a Grist series exploring how climate disasters are impacting voting and politics. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. When Donald Trump was running for reelection four years ago, he paid a visit to…A Q&A with Indigenous leader Nemonte Nenquimo who fought oil drilling in the Amazon — and won
Nov 5, 2024, 4:30 am By Anita Hofschneider
Nemonte Nenquimo was just 6 years old when she heard the hum of a plane overhead bringing white people to her village in the Amazon. Nenquimo is Indigenous Waorami, and she has spent the last decade of her life fighting the efforts of oil companies to drill…Scientists found a new ally in the fight to clean up CO2 emissions: ‘Chonkus’
Nov 5, 2024, 4:15 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Tucked away in the most extreme nooks and crannies of the Earth are biodiverse galaxies of microorganisms — some that might help scour the atmosphere of the carbon dioxide mankind has pumped into it. One microorganism in particular has captured scientists’…The race for clean energy is local
Nov 4, 2024, 4:45 am By Emily Jones
The U.S. power grid is at a critical crossroads. Electricity generation, like every other industry, needs to rid itself of fossil fuels if the country is to play its role in combating the climate crisis — a transition that will have to happen even as energy…LA County sues Pepsi and Coke over plastic pollution and false advertising
Nov 4, 2024, 4:15 am By Joseph Winters
Los Angeles County announced last week that it’s suing PepsiCo and Coca-Cola over plastic pollution, arguing that the soda giants’ plastic bottles have harmed public health and the environment and that the companies knowingly misled the public about their…On the ballot in your state: A guide to 2024’s climate voter referendums
Nov 4, 2024, 4:00 am By Christopher Harress, ReckonAfter the hottest 12 months on record, during which fossil fuel production and extreme weather surged, the climate change stakes in the November 5 election have never been higher. Candidates from the White House to utility commissions are campaigning on…Utility regulators take millions from industries they oversee. What could go wrong?
Nov 3, 2024, 9:00 am By Mario Alejandro Ariza
It was 2:30 in the morning on November 6, 2014, when flames engulfed the New Orleans home of political consultant Mario Zervigon. Someone had lit his cars on fire, and the flames spread to his house. Zervigon and his family barely made it out of the three-unit…Voter turnout is surging in the key swing states hammered by Hurricane Helene
Nov 2, 2024, 2:14 pm By Zoya Teirstein
It’s been a little over a month since Hurricane Helene ripped through the southeastern United States, claiming hundreds of lives and causing an estimated $53 billion dollars in damages. In addition to being a record-breaking storm in its own right, Helene…Climate-fueled extreme weather is hiking up car insurance rates
Nov 2, 2024, 9:00 am By Kiley Price, Inside Climate NewsAs climate change accelerates, hurricanes, wildfires and hail storms pound the U.S. with growing vigor—and the insurance market is struggling to foot the bill of the damages they leave behind for customers. In 2023 alone, extreme weather cost the…How climate voters could swing the presidential election
Nov 1, 2024, 4:45 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
In the final days before the presidential election, roughly 2,000 volunteers from all around the country are spending hours calling voters across 19 states. Their objective? Get people who care about climate change to the polls, particularly those who didn’t…The Department of Energy wants to pay companies to make greener solar panels
Nov 1, 2024, 4:30 am By Maddie Stone
In June, U.S. solar manufacturer Qcells became the second company in the world to register its solar panels with EPEAT, a labeling system that sets sustainability standards for electronics makers. By doing so, the company triggered an obscure regulation that…The next president could address the plastics crisis — or worsen it. Here’s how.
Nov 1, 2024, 4:15 am By Joseph Winters
Whoever ends up in the White House after next week’s presidential election will face a suite of crises related to the unchecked production of plastics: toxic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing facilities, chemicals leaching from the 20…San Francisco’s surprisingly difficult quest to turn a century-old highway into a park
Oct 31, 2024, 4:45 am By Matt Simon
On a chilly weekend in mid-September, the wind-blasted dunes of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach loomed over the Great Highway — two lanes that run along the Pacific coast in either direction separated by a median of sand and ice plant succulents. In a section…A ‘first step’ toward landback: Tribes call for three new monuments
Oct 31, 2024, 4:30 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
This week, representatives of the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe and the Pit River Nation used the 16th United Nations Conference on Biological Diversity, or CBD, in Cali, Columbia to champion the creation of the Kw’tsán National Monument, the Chuckwalla…5 ways to get out the vote for climate in the final days before the U.S. presidential election
Oct 30, 2024, 11:02 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “For so long, we’ve assumed that when the climate crisis got bad enough, everybody would just wake up, come together, and solve it in some grand ‘kumbaya’ moment — and that’s not necessarily how the story will go. When crises get worse…This disaster relief nonprofit is pioneering a clean energy alternative to noisy, polluting generators
Oct 30, 2024, 4:30 am By Elizabeth Ouzts, Energy News Network
Seventeen days after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina, tearing down power lines, destroying water mains, and disabling cell phone towers, the signs of relief were hard to miss. Trucks formed a caravan along Interstate 40, filled with…The link between climate disasters and authoritarian regimes
Oct 29, 2024, 9:00 am By L.V. Anderson
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m L.V. Anderson (or Laura to my colleagues), a senior editor at Grist, and I’m taking over the newsletter today to give you a wide-angle look at how climate change is affecting democracy not just in the…
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4:30am By Rebecca Egan McCarthy - Data centers are building their own gas power plants in Texas
Sun 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
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