Governing after Hurricane Helene
Oct 1, 2024, 9:00 am By Jake Bittle
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. We’re Jake Bittle and Ayurella Horn-Muller, two reporters here at Grist, and we’ve been traveling up and down the Gulf Coast of Florida over the past week reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which…A climate scientist criticized his own study. Is he a hero or a villain?
Oct 1, 2024, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
When a climate scientist’s inbox is flooded with requests to appear on Fox News, it’s a fairly clear sign they’ve done something controversial. For Patrick Brown, the moment arrived a year ago, mere hours after his essay titled “I Left Out the Full…The states where climate progress is on the ballot
Oct 1, 2024, 4:30 am By Kate Yoder
After a decade of failed attempts to charge polluters for emitting carbon dioxide, Washington state’s landmark cap-and-trade program finally started up last year, raising billions of dollars for electric school buses, energy-efficient heat pumps, and free…A landmark fund for climate reparations is beginning to languish
Oct 1, 2024, 4:15 am By Naveena Sadasivam
At the annual United Nations climate conference in Dubai last year, the world’s countries launched a long-awaited fund for global climate reparations. This so-called loss and damage fund, which is supposed to compensate developing countries for the…As climate change helps mosquitoes spread disease, critics push for alternatives to pesticides
Oct 1, 2024, 4:00 am By Diana Kruzman
In early July, New York City health officials conducting routine tests on the city’s mosquito population found a concerningly large number were carrying West Nile virus. The virus, which originated in the Eastern Hemisphere and is spread by Culex mosquitoes,…In Florida’s Big Bend, small towns bear the brunt of Helene’s impact
Sep 30, 2024, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
In the hours just after Hurricane Helene made landfall on Florida, James Pike sat in his truck, with his mobile home behind him. He was in the parking lot of a grocery store in Inglis, a town of 1,500 people in the state’s rural Big Bend region, waiting…The climate fight that’s holding up the farm bill
Sep 30, 2024, 4:15 am By Jake Bittle
Every five years, farmers and agricultural lobbyists descend on Capitol Hill to debate the farm bill, a massive food and agriculture funding bill that helps families afford groceries, pays out farmers who’ve lost their crops to bad weather, and props up…A federal attempt to foster ‘high-integrity voluntary carbon markets’ falls short, experts say
Sep 30, 2024, 4:00 am By Joseph Winters
After two years of meetings and consultation with the public, a little-known federal regulator this month issued its final guidance on the trading of derivatives based on carbon credits, the certificates companies buy and sell on a voluntary basis to say…The Department of Energy promised this tribal nation a $32 million solar grant. It’s nearly impossible to access.
Sep 29, 2024, 9:00 am By Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting
The Department of Energy gave the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation what seemed like very good news earlier this year: It had won a $32 million grant for a novel solar energy project in Washington state. Built over a series of old irrigation…‘You basically have free hot water’: how Cyprus became a world leader in solar heating
Sep 28, 2024, 9:00 am By Helena Smith, The Guardian
The Thriamvos company truck pulls up at noon outside the four-storey building in the heart of Nicosia. It’s the third rooftop installation of a solar-powered water heating system that Petros Mihali and his assistant, Soteris, have made in the Cypriot capital…After battering coastal towns, Hurricane Helene causes deadly flooding across five states
Sep 27, 2024, 10:28 pm By Anita Hofschneider
Dozens of people were killed across multiple states this week as Hurricane Helene swept across parts of the Southeastern United States, bringing heavy rains and a 15-foot storm surge. Coastal towns and cities in Florida were devastated when the Category 4…This Florida neighborhood recovered from flood after flood. Will it survive Helene?
Sep 27, 2024, 12:01 pm By Jake Bittle
Domonique Tomlinson didn’t know much about the Shore Acres neighborhood of St. Petersburg, Florida, when she bought a house here four years ago, but she learned fast. Just a few weeks after she moved into her single-story teal home, a high tide overwhelmed…The election could shape the future of America’s food system
Sep 27, 2024, 4:30 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Nathan Ryder raises livestock and grows vegetables on 10 acres of pasture in Golconda, Illinois with his wife and three kids. They also live in a food desert; the local grocery store closed a few months ago, and the closest farmers market is at least 45 miles…The ‘perfect’ conditions that could make Hurricane Helene ‘unsurvivable’
Sep 26, 2024, 1:12 pm By Matt Simon
For the third time in 13 months, a hurricane is churning through the Gulf of Mexico on a collision course with Florida’s northwest coast, threatening a region still recovering from recent extreme weather with historic storm surge and dangerous winds…EPA funded citizen science to address gaps in air monitoring. Will it result in cleaner air?
Sep 26, 2024, 4:45 am By Virginia Gewin
Reporting for this story was supported by the Nova Institute for Health. In the decades since Congress passed the Clean Air Act in the early 1960s, air quality monitoring has become one of the EPA’s central tools to ensure the agency delivers on the promise…How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
Sep 26, 2024, 4:30 am By Akielly Hu
Matthias Weyland loves having people ask about his balcony. A pair of solar panels hang from the railing, casting a sheen of dark blue against the red brick of his apartment building. They’re connected to a microinverter plugged into a wall outlet and feed…‘What If We Get It Right?’ Preventing a climate apocalypse might start with imagining something better
Sep 25, 2024, 10:59 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The spotlight If we get it right, the pace of life is more humane. Time that had been spent dealing with health- and flood-insurance paperwork, advocating for renewable energy, being stuck in traffic, and otherwise butting up against outdated and broken…Deja vu comes to Arkansas as lithium follows oil
Sep 25, 2024, 4:45 am By Katie Myers
This story was supported by the Fund for Environmental Journalism of the Society of Environmental Journalists. In the dusty light of a decades-old lunch counter in Lewisville, Arkansas, Chantell Dunbar-Jones expressed optimism at what the lithium boom coming…What was behind the seismic boom that wrapped Earth for 9 days?
Sep 25, 2024, 4:30 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
It was a warning shot picked up by seismometers around the world. Last September, a melting glacier collapsed, sending the mountaintop it propped up careening into the Dickson Fjord in East Greenland. The impact created a 650-foot tall tsunami — twice as…Net-zero targets are everywhere. But to be effective, they need accountability.
Sep 25, 2024, 4:15 am By Gautama Mehta
Averting a worst-case global warming scenario will require the world’s largest institutions to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, and do it fast. Over the last decade and a half, a standard form has emerged in which governments and corporations have…
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