There’s a 25-percent chance your water system violated the Safe Drinking Water Act.
May 5, 2017, 3:40 pm By Nathanael Johnson
That’s according to a new report from the NRDC, which found some 80,000 reported violations by…Guess who’s headed to the U.N. climate talks in Germany? Big polluters.
May 5, 2017, 1:25 pm By Nathalie Baptiste
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Meet the fixer: This weather forecaster shames deniers.
May 5, 2017, 6:00 am By Grist staff
Kait Parker grew up the daughter of a math teacher and a storm-spotting firefighter, which likely…Your next bar conversation is about climate change. Here’s how to do it.
May 5, 2017, 6:00 am By Ask Umbra®
If you can’t discuss what you care about with people who might disagree with you, then what’s…Cities all over the U.S. are pledging to go 100 percent renewable.
7:53pm By Abigail BechtelOn Monday, Atlanta lawmakers voted unanimously to power the city entirely with clean energy sources…You don’t have to take climate change lying down.
5:20pm By Ask Umbra®Are you familiar with the famous Seligman experiment on learned helplessness? To summarize:…Democrats are proposing a bill to keep farm laborers from being deported.
4:51pm By Nathanael Johnson
Politico reports that senators from California, Vermont, Colorado, and Hawaii came out with…The newly revived Keystone XL’s future is in the hands of a red state.
3:19pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Nebraskans battled the pipeline once before, and now that President Trump has brought KXL back…Texan science nerd wants to unseat Congress’ most despised science denier
2:51pm By Daniel Setiawan
This story was originally published by Fusion and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…The first U.S. offshore wind farm just shut down a diesel plant
1:24pm By Bobby Magill
America’s first offshore wind farm just helped to shut down a small diesel-fired electric power…The water empire: How a Korean family became the source of drinking water for many Angelenos
7:05am By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Third in a series on California water issues. Janette Oregon has lived in the Los Angeles area…Meet the fixer: This Bronx community organizer is spreading the wealth.
6:00am By Grist staff
Yorman Nuñez began community organizing at 13, and at 15 co-founded the Urban Youth Collective, a…“The rent is too damn high!” And it’s bad for the planet.
6:00am By Ask Umbra®
The civically engaged environmentalist — that’s what you’re trying to be here — prioritizes…EPA committed to regulating mercury 17 years ago. Now it’s having second thoughts.
5:07am By Jack Lienke
Jack Lienke is a senior attorney at the Institute for Policy Integrity and a coauthor, with Richard…Alaska Natives are fighting Trump’s call to “drill, baby, drill.”
Wed 6:01pm By Nikhil Swaminathan
Last Friday, the president signed an executive order to open up territory in the Arctic and Atlantic…The current winner in the race to make vegan food products? Germany.
Wed 5:38pm By Kate Yoder
This may come as a surprise to anyone who’s gone to a German bar and tried to order a meatless…Trump’s status on the Paris agreement? It’s complicated.
Wed 3:25pm By Emma Foehringer MerchantThe intra-administration tussle over whether the United States will remain in the Paris climate…Antarctica’s collapsing ice shelf just sprouted a new crack
Wed 1:38pm By Brian Kahn
Winter has descended on Antarctica. Even as cold and darkness blankets the bottom of the world, the…Veggies grown with toilet water could be headed to your table
Wed 6:54am By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Second in a series on lessons from California’s water crisis. “It’s going to be kind of…Meet the fixer: This food advocate coaches up chefs.
Wed 6:00am By Grist staffIn 2012, Katherine Miller was frustrated that Americans weren’t really talking about issues of…
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