The elected officials making political hay from disasters
Sep 17, 2024, 9:00 am By Jake Bittle
Hello everyone, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jake, and today we’re going to be talking about how a politician’s disaster response can influence voter attitudes and election outcomes. In July 2022, a storm dropped more than 14 inches of…London saw a surprising benefit to fining high-polluting cars: More active kids
Sep 17, 2024, 4:45 am By Syris Valentine
Restricting the volume of high-emitting vehicles roaming city streets carries many benefits, from clearing the air to quieting the urban din and beyond. Recognition of this simple fact has led to the proliferation of clean air zones, designated regions within…Can we eat our way out of the climate crisis?
Sep 17, 2024, 4:30 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Early into his new book The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos, ecologist Mark Easter poses a playful, but loaded, question: “How could a morning piece of toast or a plate of dinner pasta be such a world-altering culprit?” This, like many…How schools, hospitals, and prisons in 15 states profit from land and resources on 79 tribal nations
Sep 16, 2024, 4:45 am By Anna SmithOn a wet spring day in June, fog shrouded the Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Silver beads of rain clung to blades of grass and purple lupine. On a ridge overlooking St. Mary’s Lake in the southeastern corner of the…Top 5 takeaways of our investigation into state trust lands on reservations
Sep 16, 2024, 4:40 am By Tristan Ahtone
Despite tribes’ status as autonomous, sovereign nations, lands on federal Indian reservations provide revenue to state governments to pay for public schools, jails, universities, hospitals, and other institutions. A new investigation from Grist and High…Food is a huge source of methane emissions. Fixing that is no easy feat.
Sep 16, 2024, 4:30 am By Frida Garza
An international team of researchers found that global emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, rose faster than ever in the three years ending in 2022. In a new report from the Global Carbon Project, dozens of scientists reviewed many different emitters…In coal-rich Kentucky, a new green aluminum plant could bring jobs and clean energy
Sep 15, 2024, 9:00 am By Maria Gallucci
When John Holbrook first started working as a pipefitter in the early 1990s, jobs were easy to come by in his corner of northeastern Kentucky. A giant iron and steel mill routinely needed maintenance and repair work, as did the coal “coking” ovens next…‘Weather whiplash’ helped drive this year’s California wildfires
Sep 14, 2024, 9:00 am By Caroline Marshall Reinhart, Inside Climate News
While many Californians are praying for rain heavy enough to slow the spread of the 6,078 fires that have burned 977,932 acres in the state this summer, firefighters and climatologists recognize that the heavy winter rains are a big part of what led this fire…No one should be surprised that South America is burning
Sep 13, 2024, 2:32 pm By Tik Root
South America is experiencing its worst forest fire season in nearly two decades, with millions of acres burning across several countries. The blazes come amid the region’s worst drought on record, and are no surprise to climate scientists who have seen this…The potential merger of two steel industry titans has environmentalists worried
Sep 13, 2024, 4:45 am By Gautama Mehta
U.S. Steel, once the world’s largest company of any kind, can take substantial credit for the growth of American industrial power in the 20th century. But in recent decades, it’s been shuttering mills and shedding workers. Now, the iconic Pittsburgh-based…Kamala Harris is making climate action patriotic. It just might work.
Sep 12, 2024, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
“Freedom” is often a Republican talking point, but Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to reclaim the concept for Democrats as part of her campaign for the presidency. In a speech at the Democratic National Convention last month, she declared that…The Gulf Coast is sinking, making hurricanes like Francine even more dangerous
Sep 11, 2024, 6:35 pm By Matt Simon
Hurricane Francine barreled into southern Louisiana on Wednesday as a Category 2 storm, packing 100 mph winds and sending a surge of water into coastal communities. Because so much of southern Louisiana sits at or below sea level, the surge could race inland…What if nature had a voice in legislation? A ‘planetary parliament’ could give it one.
Sep 11, 2024, 11:00 am By Joseph Winters
The vision “We might have environmental protections, but those come from humans determining what’s good about an ecosystem. It might look a little different if you were to talk to a pod of pilot whales about what their needs are.” — writer and…Michigan’s ambitious clean energy laws face a peninsula-sized hurdle
Sep 11, 2024, 4:45 am By Izzy Ross
This coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan. Last year, Michigan became one of the latest states to adopt a clean energy standard, passing sweeping legislation that calls for utilities there…At the presidential debate, fossil fuels and energy politics took center stage
Sep 11, 2024, 12:28 am By Zoya Teirstein
A month ago, it seemed unlikely that Vice President Kamala Harris would ever reach a goal she set out to achieve as a presidential hopeful in 2019. But at 9 p.m. on Tuesday night at the National Constitutional Center in Philadelphia — five-odd years after…The disaster effect
Sep 10, 2024, 9:00 am By Zoya Teirstein
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. My name is Zoya Teirstein. There is quite a bit of research on the politics of disasters and how extreme weather shapes voter behavior. We’ve cited some of it in this newsletter. Today, you’ll hear about that…As fast fashion giant Shein embraces AI, its emissions are soaring
Sep 10, 2024, 4:45 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
In 2023, the fast fashion giant Shein was everywhere. Crisscrossing the globe, airplanes ferried small packages of its ultra-cheap clothing from thousands of suppliers to tens of millions of customer mailboxes in 150 countries. Influencers’ “#sheinhaul”…Hurricanes are personal for this disaster researcher
Sep 10, 2024, 4:30 am By Zoya Teirstein
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. In the spring of 2005, Daniel Aldrich, a researcher, was finishing his doctorate…Nearly 200 people were killed last year protecting the environment
Sep 10, 2024, 4:15 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
Jonila Castro is an activist working with AKAP Ka Manila Bay, a group helping displaced communities along Manilla’s rapidly-developing harbor maintain their livelihoods and homes. In recent years, projects like the $15-billion New Manila International…A new ‘green bank’ could bring solar power and electric buses to Appalachia
Sep 10, 2024, 4:00 am By Katie Myers
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization.Gwen Christon runs an IGA grocery store in Isom, a town in eastern Kentucky that struggles with exorbitant utility bills and few grocery…
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