An oil well off Australia leaked for weeks last year. We just found out about it.
May 19, 2017, 4:47 pm By Nikhil SwaminathanThe National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority mentioned the leak in…L.A.’s promise to join the Paris Agreement is a wee bit presumptuous.
May 19, 2017, 3:53 pm By Emma Foehringer MerchantThis week, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti tweeted that if the United States dropped from the deal,…March for Science finally released thoroughly fact-checked crowd count
May 19, 2017, 2:18 pm By Rebecca Leber
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Apple doesn’t want you to be able to fix your own phone.
May 19, 2017, 2:17 pm By Amelia Urry
The company has been lobbying against the so-called “Fair Repair Act” in New York —…Meet the fixer: This professional trains people for solar jobs.
May 19, 2017, 6:00 am By Grist staff
The solar industry is doing better than ever, creating well-paying jobs across the country — but…A Syrian refugee camp got solar power for the first time.
May 18, 2017, 5:29 pm By Kate YoderIn a desert in northern Jordan, thousands of families can now light their shelters, plug in…Congress members of color get high marks on enviro report card.
May 18, 2017, 4:21 pm By Nikhil Swaminathan
Each year, the League of Conservation Voters publishes its National Environmental Scorecard, which…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…
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