An $18M grant would have drastically reduced food waste. Then the EPA cut it.
May 9, 2025, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Once a little girl roaming the vibrant fields of an organic lettuce farm in Kealakekua, Hawai’i, Ella Kilpatrick Kotner learned how to live in harmony with the land before most kids learn how to tie their shoes. Nourishing the soils that gave her a regular…Trump calls program to help low-income Americans pay their energy bills ‘unnecessary’
May 9, 2025, 4:30 am By Naveena Sadasivam
Last year, the Low Income Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, distributed nearly $4 billion to households struggling to pay their energy bills. It’s a lifeline for more than 6 million families, but in recent months the program has become a target for…The head of FEMA defended the agency on Capitol Hill. Trump fired him
May 8, 2025, 6:55 pm By Tik Root
On Thursday, the Trump administration forced Cameron Hamilton, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency out of his job. The move came one day after Hamilton told lawmakers that the agency, which the administration favors dismantling,…Plastics companies know about chemical recycling’s shortcomings — but still sell it as a solution
May 8, 2025, 9:00 am By Joseph Winters
For years, the plastic industry’s narrative about recycling has been falling apart. Research and media investigations have revealed that it doesn’t make economic sense, and that petrochemical companies have used it more as a public relations gambit than as…Why are all of America’s biggest cities sinking?
May 8, 2025, 5:01 am By Matt Simon
Cities sit unmoving on the landscape — a sprawling collection of roads, sidewalks, and buildings designed to last for generations. But across the United States, urban areas are silently shifting: The land beneath them is sinking, a process known as…The Trump administration has all but stopped enforcing environmental laws
May 8, 2025, 4:45 am By Tom Perkins
Protecting the nation from polluters is a core function of the Environmental Protection Agency. But in the last few months, federal enforcement of major violations of environmental laws appears to have ground to a halt. A Grist review of data from the…How Trump’s latest rollback could raise your utility bills
3:13pm By Tik RootThe federal Energy Star program is among the most successful government initiatives in modern history. Its signature blue label is now nearly as recognizable as the Nike swoosh or a Coca-Cola can, and appliances bearing it save American consumers some $40…What is it like on the climate job market right now?
11:05am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “The uncertainty of the situation is taking an emotional toll on our entire community. The job market is shifting so rapidly that it’s an uneasy time whether you’re employed at the moment or not.” — Trish Kenlon, founder of Sustainable…A malaria-like disease spread by ticks is moving into Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia
4:45am By Zoya Teirstein
Ellen Stromdahl was at a garden party in coastal Virginia in June 2023 when her friend Albert Duncan stood up from where he was sitting and abruptly fainted away. Duncan is an outdoorsman in his mid-80s — still active and healthy for his age. Stromdahl, an…Coming this summer: Record-breaking heat and plenty of hurricanes
4:30am By Matt Simon
With less than a month to go until summer, weather forecasters have been dropping some troubling news about what might be in store. AccuWeather had already predicted an especially active season — which begins June 1 — with up to 10 hurricanes out at sea,…A ‘green backlash’ helped conservatives win in Germany. What happens now?
4:15am By Saqib Rahim
In February, Germany held an election that had many echoes of the one the United States held in November. Voters were incensed with inflation — especially electricity prices, which surged 80 percent after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and never returned to…A “green backlash” helped conservatives win in Germany. What happens now?
4:15am By Saqib RahimIn February, Germany held an election that had many echoes of the one America held in November. Voters were incensed with inflation — especially electricity prices, which surged 80 percent after Russia invaded Ukraine and never returned to normal. Right-wing…Want climate solutions in Indigenous territories? Better get consent.
4:00am By Maria Parazo Rose
Four years ago, Harvard University moved a long-planned solar geoengineering project from Arizona to Sápmi, the homelands of Sámi peoples across what is now Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. The Sámi had no idea it was coming. “We did not know about…Louisana already has 4 LNG terminals. It just added another.
3:45am By Tristan Baurick
On many nights, John Allaire can turn off the lights in his house and keep reading a book by the glow of 80-foot-high flares blasting from a gas export terminal a mile away. The prospect of a second liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal in his once-peaceful…The National Weather Service is once again translating life-saving alerts. What happened?
Tue 2:43pm By Ayurella Horn-Muller
At the beginning of last month, the National Weather Service discontinued its automated emergency-weather translation services in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and Samoan. The agency had decided not to renew its contract with Lilt, an AI-translation…In Georgia, a fight over credit for its clean energy boom
Tue 4:45am By Gautama Mehta
If Joe Biden’s presidency had a capstone achievement, it was the Inflation Reduction Act, and if the IRA’s project of reindustrializing America through climate action has a poster child, it is Georgia. The Peach State is home to more new jobs expected to…This commonly used plastic chemical caused 350,000 heart disease-related deaths in 1 year
Tue 4:30am By Joseph Winters
More than 16,000 chemicals are used to produce plastics — and some are silently killing us. Particularly worrisome is di-2-ethylhexylphthalate, or DEHP, a chemical used to soften plastic products. Colorless and nearly odorless, DEHP is found in everything…Scientists just found a way to break through climate apathy
May 5, 2025, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
For much of the 20th century, winter brought an annual ritual to Princeton, New Jersey. Lake Carnegie froze solid, and skaters flocked to its glossy surface. These days, the ice is rarely thick enough to support anybody wearing skates, since Princeton’s…At UN, mining groups tout protections for Indigenous people
May 5, 2025, 4:15 am By Anna V. Smith, High Country NewsThis story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. In mid-April, the Trump administration cleared the way for a controversial copper mine proposed for western Arizona. The mine would destroy parts of Chi’chil Biłdagoteel — known as “Oak…USAID cuts are hitting global conservation projects hard
May 4, 2025, 9:00 am By Adam Welz, Yale E360
On February 3, Elon Musk typed a now-notorious post to his social media platform X: “Spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone [sic] to some great parties. Did that instead.” The actions by Musk’s Department of Government…
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