Colorado voters just made it a lot harder to pass fracking bans.
Nov 9, 2016, 3:33 pm By Emma Foehringer MerchantIn recent years, a number of communities in the state have passed local bans, but the state Supreme…Worried about your reproductive rights? Here’s what to do.
Nov 9, 2016, 3:23 pm By Eve AndrewsYes, an America that puts Donald Trump and Mike Pence at its helm is not one that promises to…West Virginia’s top mine safety delinquent is also its new governor.
Nov 9, 2016, 2:12 pm By Katie HerzogJim Justice, a billionaire coal magnate whose mining operations reportedly owe $15…A bundle of food-related measures passed last night.
Nov 9, 2016, 1:42 pm By Nathanael JohnsonTake a deep breath: Soda taxes passed in Boulder, Colorado, and in three cities in the Bay…World continues spinning on its axis.
Nov 9, 2016, 12:36 pm By Katie HerzogAmericans awoke Wednesday morning surprised to find that the sun still rises, 2 plus 2 still equals…Global climate activists try not to freak out over Trump’s win
Nov 9, 2016, 10:10 am By Lisa Hymas
Negotiators from around the world are currently gathered in Marrakech, Morocco, for the annual U.N.…Washington state voters rejected a carbon-tax ballot initiative.
Nov 9, 2016, 3:06 am By Lisa HymasNo surprise, really, as such a policy was always going to be an uphill climb, and in this case even…Trump’s win is a deadly threat to stopping climate change.
Nov 9, 2016, 2:39 am By Rebecca LeberA President Clinton would have faced a divided Congress, limiting what she could accomplish in…Florida voted down an anti-solar initiative.
Nov 8, 2016, 9:35 pm By Emma Foehringer MerchantThe amendment was disguised as a pro-solar amendment (we know, confusing) and it failed to meet the…Grist tried to make sense of an election that didn’t
Nov 8, 2016, 3:55 pm By Scott Dodd
Election Day is finally here! (Who wants shots?) I know the national media tried its darnedest to…That fish might be lying about its identity, but it also might be more sustainable.
Nov 8, 2016, 3:37 pm By Kate YoderThere really are plenty of fish in the sea — they just tend not to be the ones people think…Tim Kaine says a potential Dakota Access reroute would be “the right thing to do.”
Nov 8, 2016, 3:34 pm By Sabrina ImblerIn an interview with Fusion’s Alicia Menendez, the vice presidential candidate…The last five years were — say it with me — the hottest five years on record.
Nov 8, 2016, 2:46 pm By Amelia UrryThe World Meteorological Organization published a report on Tuesday verifying that the half-decade…It’s Election Day! Time to wait in some really long lines.
Nov 8, 2016, 2:04 pm By Katie HerzogToday Americans will cast their ballots — except, of course, for those who can’t due to…Are “I Voted” stickers bad for the planet?
Nov 8, 2016, 1:44 pm By Eve AndrewsNo. Counterpoint, however, from Kentucky via the Courier-Journal: About 20 years ago, the Jefferson…This really is a climate change election
Nov 8, 2016, 11:21 am By Rebecca Leber
If you only paid attention to the really big moments in this year’s presidential election — the…Native American religion and Standing Rock: What you need to know
Nov 7, 2016, 7:16 pm By Rosalyn R. LaPier
In recent weeks, protests against the building of the Dakota Access pipeline across North Dakota…A state-by-state guide to climate on the ballot
Nov 7, 2016, 4:45 pm By Jeremy Schulman
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…The Koch brothers and their buddies are trying to kill a carbon-tax ballot initiative in Washington state.
Nov 7, 2016, 4:09 pm By Katie HerzogOddly, that puts them on the same side as Van Jones, Naomi Klein, and some other environmental and…Environmentalists are raising the pressure on Obama over Dakota Access.
Nov 7, 2016, 3:16 pm By Ben AdlerResponding to the mass arrests of protesters last week, Greenpeace called on President Obama to…
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