A Republican governor has nixed fracking in Maryland.
Apr 5, 2017, 3:44 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
On Tuesday, Gov. Larry Hogan signed a bill that bans hydraulic fracturing in the state. Maryland…Small California towns are facing off against oil companies — and winning
Apr 5, 2017, 9:00 am By Dean Kuipers
This story was published in partnership with Capital & Main, an award-winning publication that…Meet the fixer: This farmer uses AI for efficiency.
Apr 5, 2017, 6:00 am By Grist staff
As a kid, Irving Fain started small neighborhood businesses (snow shoveling, leaf raking). He later…The market has spoken, and it said electric cars are the future.
Apr 4, 2017, 4:02 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Ford had a 100-year head start on Tesla, but Elon Musk’s company has caught up. With a market…The market has spoken, and it says electric cars are the future.
Apr 4, 2017, 4:02 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Ford had a 100-year head start on Tesla, but Elon Musk’s company has caught up. With a market…So you want to revive rural America. Try wind turbines, not coal mines.
Apr 4, 2017, 1:38 pm By Maddie Oatman
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Native Americans caught salmon here for millennia. Now the world is hooked.
Apr 4, 2017, 6:00 am By Amy McDermott
Out in the middle of nowhere, people look out for one another. That fact is especially evident in…Meet the fixer: This politician reps bipartisan climate action.
Apr 4, 2017, 5:50 am By Grist staff
When you’re from fast-flooding south Florida, you don’t have the luxury of ignoring climate…‘Gasland’ families are still fighting the company who leaked methane into their water.
Apr 3, 2017, 4:51 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Members of the tiny, rural town of Dimock, Pennsylvania, have locked horns with Cabot Oil & Gas…Heroes in the heartland are quietly protecting our land and water
Apr 3, 2017, 2:15 pm By Nathanael Johnson
My social media bubble tells me that coastal liberals work to protect nature, while inland…Scott Pruitt kinda sorta maybe gets that carbon dioxide contributes to warming.
Apr 3, 2017, 2:11 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
During a wide-ranging Fox News Sunday interview, the EPA administrator fielded questions about…Need a laugh? Grist’s comedy night is almost here!
Apr 3, 2017, 1:06 pm By Grist staff
So, the over-the-top hit drama known as “2016” got extended another four years. The only way to…Trump wants to block a court ruling on the Clean Power Plan. The court shouldn’t let him.
Apr 3, 2017, 9:26 am By Jack Lienke
Jack Lienke is a senior attorney at the Institute for Policy Integrity and a coauthor, with Richard…Meet the fixer: This urban farmer grows in tight spaces.
Apr 3, 2017, 6:00 am By Grist staff
In Louisiana, more than 18 percent of households didn’t have access to healthy food in 2015 (the…Trump’s executive order hurts local climate action, too
Apr 1, 2017, 6:00 am By John Upton
As President Trump moved this week to halt federal efforts to slow climate change, his executive…Here’s what you need to know about Trump’s latest environmental evildoing
Mar 31, 2017, 6:32 pm By Lisa Hymas
In a single day, President Trump did more environmental damage than during his previous 67 days in…These two bills would make it harder for the EPA to do good science.
Mar 31, 2017, 5:05 pm By Amelia Urry
The bills — recently passed by the House — in theory advocate for more transparency, but in…Meet the fixer: This sustainability director drives change in Orlando.
Mar 31, 2017, 6:00 am By Grist staff
As the head of Orlando’s urban sustainability initiative, Chris Castro has to stay ahead of the…Forget the war on coal. The war is on miners.
Mar 31, 2017, 6:00 am By Emily Sanders
A health-care fund for retired coal miners has become a political bargaining chip. Maintained in…Global trade causes more than 20 percent of air-pollution deaths.
Mar 30, 2017, 5:26 pm By Nikhil Swaminathan
A new study in the journal Nature investigated what triggers the nearly 3.5 million annual deaths…
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