Scott Pruitt is now offering lessons in the art of the burn.
May 18, 2017, 4:04 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Delaware Sen. Tom Carper, the top-ranking Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee,…Rising seas are lapping at the shores of the world’s poorest countries
May 18, 2017, 2:41 pm By John Upton
Coastal residents of poor and fast-growing tropical countries face rapid increases in the numbers of…Meet the fixer: This CEO plants community solar gardens.
May 18, 2017, 6:00 am By Grist staff
Steph Speirs thinks about solar the way one might think about a community garden. Why go through the…The first GOP member of Congress to say “impeachment” after Trump’s latest scandal is a climate hawk.
May 17, 2017, 6:11 pm By Grist staff
On Tuesday evening, Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo from Florida, a 2017 Grist 50er, appeared on CNN…Trump won’t regulate carbon emissions. But Virginia’s governor will.
May 17, 2017, 5:18 pm By Nikhil SwaminathanOn Tuesday, Terry McAuliffe (D) ordered environmental regulators to develop a cap-and-trade program…The EPA asked the public which rules to scrap and got chewed out.
May 17, 2017, 4:27 pm By Kate Yoder
Last month, the agency put out a call for comments asking which environmental regulations…A week after 50 farmworkers were sickened by pesticides, the EPA punts on protecting them.
May 17, 2017, 3:40 pm By Nathanael Johnson
In 2015, the EPA released an update to the “worker protection standard”…Climate change spells dry times ahead for the West
May 17, 2017, 1:09 pm By Emily Benson
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the…Meet the fixer: This scientist connects investors to new food tech.
May 17, 2017, 6:00 am By Grist staff
Animal agriculture is a complex tangle of issues, all pulling in different directions: culinary…World leadership could cancel out Trump’s polluting ways.
May 16, 2017, 4:58 pm By Nathanael Johnson
His efforts to roll back U.S. climate action will not likely have a major impact on the global…Unrecorded diesel emissions kill 38,000 people a year.
May 16, 2017, 3:53 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
A new study shows that pollution from diesel vehicles in 11 areas around the world is 50 percent…Some massive hands are propping up Venice because climate change.
May 16, 2017, 2:24 pm By Amelia Urry
Artist Lorenzo Quinn seeks to draw attention to human ingenuity — and the modern threat of…By 5 to 1, voters say the U.S. should stick with the Paris Agreement
May 16, 2017, 1:32 pm By Ed Maibach
In December 2015, officials from nearly every country in the world met in Paris to negotiate a…An unlikely resistance surges against Trump’s clean water threats
May 16, 2017, 6:32 am By Nikhil Swaminathan
No one’s going to mistake Ohio Sen. Rob Portman for a climate hawk. He’s the kind of Republican…Meet the fixer: This physicist is shaping energy policy.
May 16, 2017, 6:00 am By Grist staff
Before Varun Sivaram joined the Council on Foreign Relations in 2015, the leading U.S. policy shop…Trump saved a pesticide Obama wanted banned. Then, it poisoned several farmworkers.
May 15, 2017, 5:14 pm By Nikhil SwaminathanIn early May, laborers harvesting cabbage in a field near Bakersfield, California, caught a whiff…Trump friend and climate foe Sam Clovis is up for a big job at the USDA.
May 15, 2017, 5:10 pm By Nathanael Johnson
The post, undersecretary of research, education, and economics, sets the Agriculture…A White House staffer fed the president an old hoax, and he fell for it
May 15, 2017, 2:08 pm By Nathalie Baptiste
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Meet the fixers: These mothers bring the future into the present.
May 15, 2017, 6:00 am By Grist staff
Back in 2014, Trisha Shrum and Jill Kubit had climate change on their minds. Both women were…In Detroit, people know what it’s like to live without running water
May 14, 2017, 6:00 am By Zenobia Jeffries
Each day, Catherine Caldwell hauls three gallons of bottled water to her bathroom and two to her…
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