How California can make its cap-and-trade program more equitable
Jul 18, 2018, 1:51 pm By Justine CalmaLast week California celebrated a big milestone: The state announced it had succeeded in bringing…Next-gen nuclear is coming, if we want it
Jul 18, 2018, 7:01 am By Nathanael JohnsonBack in 2009, Simon Irish, an investment manager in New York, found the kind of opportunity that he…On Amazon’s Prime Day, the environment gets a raw deal
Jul 17, 2018, 4:15 pm By Shannon OsakaThis Tuesday is day two of Prime Day, a late-capitalist online extravaganza for Amazon Prime members…Trump and Putin are clearly in cahoots — over saving the fossil fuel industry
Jul 16, 2018, 7:40 pm By Eric HolthausEric Holthaus is a meteorologist and staff writer for Grist, covering climate science, policy, and…How rising seas could cause your next internet outage
Jul 16, 2018, 7:08 pm By Greta JochemYou probably didn’t give much thought to how exactly you loaded this webpage. Maybe you clicked a…So how’d those avocados handle the searing heatwave?
Jul 16, 2018, 7:01 am By Nathanael JohnsonA high-pressure cell recently idled over southern California like the lid of Satan’s pressure…Faced with asthma and illness, citizens are taking air quality into their own hands
Jul 14, 2018, 7:00 am By Jason PlautzThis story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…WeWork kicks meat to the curb in the name of climate change
Jul 13, 2018, 4:58 pm By Zoya TeirsteinWeWork, a coworking Goliath, announced a company-wide meat ban on Thursday: Poultry, pork, and red…Scott Pruitt can’t escape his investigations just because he resigned
Jul 13, 2018, 2:22 pm By Rebecca LeberThis story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of…This year’s global hurricane boom could go into overdrive
Jul 13, 2018, 12:40 pm By Eric HolthausThe powerful weather pattern known as El Niño has been blamed for massive wildfires, crippling…Hold on to your snowballs: More Americans accept the reality of climate change than ever before
Jul 12, 2018, 6:58 pm By Shannon OsakaSeventy-three percent! That’s the proportion of Americans who now think there is “solid…Democrats say Trump’s “culture of corruption” is making people sick
Jul 12, 2018, 2:44 pm By Justine CalmaPeggy Price, a mother and retired Marine Corps sergeant, was livid when she recently learned that…Pruitt’s EPA tenure helped sharpen a Trump-era climate strategy
Jul 12, 2018, 2:19 pm By Eric HolthausThere’s no debating that president Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency, led until…California’s carbon emissions are back to ’90s levels. It can be done, people!
Jul 12, 2018, 1:59 pm By Nathanael JohnsonCalifornia’s carbon emissions are back to where they were when Macaulay Culkin was battling…Chinese companies apparently broke an international ozone agreement. What happens next?
Jul 11, 2018, 6:49 pm By Greta JochemThe Montreal Protocol is hailed as a major climate victory. The 1987 international agreement…How a hot city can keep its cool
Jul 11, 2018, 6:31 am By Jesse Nicholsoriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bqqbYCfYYs The year is 2018. Cities are hot.…New York’s hottest neighborhoods need to cool it
Jul 11, 2018, 6:30 am By Justine CalmaOn a hot summer day in New York City last July, Ajohntae Dixon was studying at home when he began…Will Justice Roberts stand up to the Supreme Court’s potential Voldemort?
Jul 10, 2018, 6:28 pm By Shannon OsakaOn Monday night, President Trump announced his replacement for retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy —…Warmer weather could fuel more toxic algae blooms
Jul 9, 2018, 7:00 am By Greta JochemAlgae is here, and it might be toxic. That’s the gist of the warnings cropping up along Lake…Rainforests: The good, the bad, and the Trump trade war
Jul 9, 2018, 6:05 am By Nathanael JohnsonIn the time it takes you to read this story, a forest the size of nearly 100 football fields will be…
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