Is Georgia Power quietly planning a massive buildout of fossil gas?
May 3, 2025, 9:00 am By Jeff St. John, Canary Media
Georgia Power, which expects a boom in power demand from data centers, says it needs to get a lot more electricity online — fast. So what kind of power plants does the utility intend to rely on to accomplish this? It’s refusing to say, raising concerns…Trump promised to help Big Oil. Its revenues plummeted.
May 2, 2025, 5:55 pm By Tik Root
This story is part of a Grist package examining how President Trump’s first 100 days in office have reshaped climate and environmental policy in the U.S. President Donald Trump came into office promising to “drill, baby, drill” and, on day one, signed an…Trump promised to help Big Oil. Its revenues plummeted
May 2, 2025, 5:55 pm By Tik Root
This story is part of a Grist package examining how President Trump’s first 100 days in office have reshaped climate and environmental policy in the U.S. President Donald Trump came into office promising to “drill, baby, drill” and, on day one, signed an…Trump radically remade the US food system in just 100 days
May 2, 2025, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Despite its widespread perception, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is involved in much more than farming. The federal agency, established in 1862, is made up of 29 subagencies and offices and just last year was staffed by nearly 100,000 employees. It has an…Why hasn’t Trump taken down the government’s climate adaptation plans?
May 2, 2025, 4:30 am By Tik Root
Deep in the bowels of .gov web addresses sits a site that houses the climate adaptation plans for more than two dozen federal agencies. They outline everything from the Smithsonian protecting the National Museum of American History from flooding to the…‘Build, baby, build:’ Canada’s new prime minister wants to make the country into an ‘energy superpower’
May 2, 2025, 4:15 am By Anita Hofschneider
Canada’s newly elected prime minister wants to turn the country into an “energy superpower,” while promising to respect Indigenous rights, prompting both cautious optimism and skepticism from Indigenous leaders and advocates in Canada. Prime Minister…30 years of environmental justice, dismantled in 100 days
May 2, 2025, 4:00 am By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
Tucked inside the Altgeld Gardens public housing project on Chicago’s far South Side, there’s a yellow brick wall filled with hundreds of names. It stands as a memorial to the friends and family members in this community who died, often due to disease or…How California’s farmers can recharge the aquifers they’ve drained
May 2, 2025, 3:30 am By Frida Garza
In parts of California’s Central Valley, so much groundwater has been pumped out of the ground to deal with the region’s persistent drought that the land is starting to sink in. Underground aquifers — layers of sand, gravel, clay, and water — are vital…100 days in, does Trump still ‘dig’ coal?
May 1, 2025, 4:45 am By Katie Myers
This story is part of a Grist package examining how President Trump’s first 100 days in office have reshaped climate and environmental policy in the U.S. Jeffrey Willig doesn’t mine coal anymore. For nine years he worked underground, most recently for a…Trump’s first 100 days shredded millions in funding for Indigenous peoples
May 1, 2025, 4:30 am By Anita Hofschneider
This story is part of a Grist package examining how President Trump’s first 100 days in office have reshaped climate and environmental policy in the U.S. When Native Hawaiian combat veteran Joseph Guzman-Simpliciano got back home to Hawaiʻi from Afghanistan…Who will finance global climate solutions? Not the West.
May 1, 2025, 4:15 am By Naveena Sadasivam
International climate action has long rested on the consequential distinction between the Global North and the Global South. Wealthier, earlier-to-industrialize nations contributed the most to a warming planet while developing countries bear the brunt of the…Project 2025 was extreme. Trump’s first 100 days have been even more radical.
Apr 30, 2025, 4:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
“I know nothing about Project 2025,” President Donald Trump said in a social media post last summer, four months before he defeated former vice president Kamala Harris and made a triumphant return to power. He was referring to a 900-page document written…Farmers are making bank harvesting a new crop: Solar energy
Apr 30, 2025, 4:30 am By Matt Simon
Around the world, farmers are retooling their land to harvest the hottest new commodity: sunlight. As the price of renewable energy technology has plummeted and water has gotten more scarce, growers are fallowing acreage and installing solar panels. Some are…The Trump administration just dismissed all 400 experts working on America’s official climate report
Apr 29, 2025, 8:05 pm By Joseph Winters
Every several years for the past 25 years, the federal government has published a comprehensive look at the way climate change is affecting the country. States, local governments, businesses, farmers, and many others use this National Climate Assessment to…Indigenous leaders push for seat at the table of high seas biodiversity treaty
Apr 29, 2025, 6:51 pm By Sonam Lama Hyolmo, Mongabay
This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. In Native Hawaiians’ genealogical stories, says Solomon Kahoʻohalahala, the coral polyp is considered the oldest ancestor, and they hold relationships with animals, including the Koholā, or…The Trump administration’s push to privatize US public lands
Apr 29, 2025, 5:00 pm By Chris D'Angelo
America’s federal public lands are truly unique, part of our birthright as citizens. No other country in the world has such a system. More than 640 million acres, including national parks, forests and wildlife refuges, as well as lands open to drilling,…The New Jersey fire signals a new era for the Northeast
Apr 29, 2025, 4:45 am By Lois Parshley
The Jones Road Wildfire, which started Tuesday in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, is on track to become the worst in state history. Fueled by gusty winds, low humidity, and dry undergrowth — conditions increasingly common in the region — the blaze has…Trump is bypassing community input to fast-track energy projects that risk pollution
Apr 29, 2025, 4:30 am By Izzy Ross
This story is part of a Grist package examining how President Trump’s first 100 days in office have reshaped climate and environmental policy in the U.S., and is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern…Lost your federal job or funding? Tell us how cuts are impacting the environment, health, and safety of your community.
Apr 29, 2025, 4:15 am By Grist staff
The Trump administration’s flurry of initial actions has had a devastating effect on climate, environmental, justice, agricultural, and health work vital to communities across the country. As federal employees and funding recipients face these ongoing cuts…A siege on science: How Trump is undoing an American legacy
Apr 28, 2025, 4:45 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Across seven decades and a dozen presidencies, America’s scientific prowess was arguably unmatched. At universities and federal agencies alike, researchers in the United States revolutionized weather forecasting, cured deadly diseases, and began monitoring…
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Sat 9:00am By Alex Hager, KUNC - The transfer of a sacred site to a copper mine is delayed once again
Fri 5:40pm By Miacel Spotted Elk - Youth climate activists won lawsuits in Montana and Hawai‘i. Now they’re targeting Trump.
Fri 5:29pm By Sophie Hurwitz - How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will raise household energy costs
Fri 4:45am By Naveena Sadasivam - How 3 years of war have ravaged Ukraine’s forests, and the people who depend on them
Thu 4:45am By Chad Small - In California’s largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River
Thu 4:30am By Anita Hofschneider - The smoke from Canada’s wildfires may be even more toxic than usual
Thu 4:15am By Matt Simon - Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous peoples around the world
Wed 10:00am By Graham Lee Brewer, The Associated Press - Funding to protect American cities from extreme heat just evaporated
Wed 4:45am By Matt Simon - The sneaky way even meat lovers can lessen their climate impact
Wed 4:30am By Frida Garza
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