How the Marshall Fire sparked a political transformation in Colorado
Aug 13, 2024, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
This story is part of State of Emergency, a Grist series exploring how climate disasters are…Politicians don’t get how popular climate action is. That’s a problem.
Aug 13, 2024, 4:30 am By Kate Yoder
When the New Orleans City Council debated a proposal for a $210 million gas-fired power plant in…The state rep who sparked Colorado’s fire recovery
Aug 12, 2024, 6:35 pm By Jake Bittle
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency, a limited-run newsletter about how disasters are…We’re in debt to the Earth. How can we repay it?
Aug 12, 2024, 4:45 am By Syris Valentine
On Christmas Day, 1971, for the first time in Homo sapiens’ roughly 300,000 years of hobbling…Minnesota settles ‘deceptive environmental marketing’ lawsuit over ‘recycling’ plastic bags
Aug 11, 2024, 9:00 am By James Bruggers, Inside Climate News
Walmart and Reynolds Consumer Products have agreed to stop selling certain plastic bags in Minnesota…Biden administration announces more than $2 billion in grants to boost US power grid
Aug 10, 2024, 9:00 am By Jeff St. John, Canary Media
The U.S. power grid is overburdened and under-resourced — and the Biden administration just…How the 2024 Paris Olympics handled the heat — and didn’t
Aug 9, 2024, 5:38 pm By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Curled up on a small, white rectangle of fabric on the grass by a park bench in Paris, Italian…On a rural Hawaiian island, solar provides a path to energy sovereignty
Aug 9, 2024, 4:45 am By Naoki Nitta
Like many homesteaders on the island of Molokaʻi, Kailana Place grew up off-grid, on 40 acres of…Farmworker advocates celebrate rare EPA ban of toxic pesticide
Aug 9, 2024, 4:30 am By Joseph Winters
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced an emergency order this week suspending all use…States want to clean up leaky oil wells. Well-intentioned laws are getting in the way.
Aug 9, 2024, 4:15 am By Naveena Sadasivam
An estimated 880,000 abandoned oil and gas wells dot the United States. These orphaned wells, some…Carbon credits are supposed to funnel money to poor countries. Do they?
Aug 8, 2024, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
Proponents of the voluntary carbon market say it’s a mechanism not only to advance sustainability…Indigenous youth are at the center of major climate lawsuits. Here’s why they’re suing.
Aug 8, 2024, 4:30 am By Anita Hofschneider
On Aug. 8, 2023, 13-year-old Kaliko was getting ready for her hula class at her mother’s house in…High-tech textiles can protect workers from the heat — but not from their bosses
Aug 8, 2024, 4:15 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Nick Lubecki has been an urban farmer in Pittsburgh for the last 15 years. The heat has noticeably…How outdoor programs are adapting to the challenge of extreme weather
Aug 7, 2024, 10:49 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “How can healing our relationship to the planet help us heal our relationships with…Spying from space: How satellites can help identify and rein in a potent climate pollutant
Aug 7, 2024, 4:45 am By Syris Valentine
On a blustery day in early March, the who’s who of methane research gathered at Vandenberg Space…New fossils reveal an ice-free Greenland. It’s bad news for sea level rise.
Aug 7, 2024, 4:15 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Late on a Saturday afternoon in June 2022, Andrew Christ was on the verge of a discovery at the…Rez dogs are feeling the heat from climate change
Aug 7, 2024, 4:00 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
Julie Cassadore was stunned when the wildfire ripped through the San Carlos Apache Reservation this…The climate vice president? What Tim Walz brings to the Harris ticket.
Aug 6, 2024, 4:19 pm By Zoya Teirstein
Vice President Kamala Harris has tapped Tim Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, as her…Can chief heat officers protect US cities from extreme heat?
Aug 6, 2024, 4:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
This story is part of State of Emergency, a Grist series exploring how climate disasters are…Disaster on the ballot
Aug 6, 2024, 4:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
Hello, and welcome to the first issue of State of Emergency, a limited-run newsletter from Grist. My…
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