GMO labeling laws keep failing. Here’s why we can expect more
Nov 6, 2014, 12:35 pm By Nathanael Johnson
After efforts to label genetically engineered foods failed in Oregon and Colorado, Politico’s…Giant hog farms are making people sick. Here’s why it’s a civil rights issue.
Nov 6, 2014, 9:23 am By Sara Bernard
The foul stench and pollution caused by North Carolina’s industrial swine farms has long impacted…The Amish: Makers of jam, fine cabinetry, and polluted rivers
Nov 6, 2014, 8:03 am By Rona Kobell
Many Amish people have denounced the Discovery Channel’s Amish Mafia TV show, now entering its…Hey! Did somebody frack my favorite beer?
Nov 6, 2014, 7:07 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. I live in Delaware, and Pennsylvania-brewed Yuengling beer has been my standard for years. But…Chevron spent $72 per voter to defeat these green candidates — and failed
Nov 5, 2014, 7:06 pm By Heather Smith
At the headquarters for the Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) Tuesday night, a man in a superhero…Green groups spent millions on the midterms. What did it get them?
Nov 5, 2014, 6:31 pm By John Light
In this year’s midterm elections, grassroots activists pushing for candidates who care about…Get ready for another extremely cold winter starting NOW
Nov 5, 2014, 6:01 pm By Liz Core
If you didn’t experience last year’s polar vortex, let me offer a brief ode to The Great…The country is going to hell, but at least your bus may come on time
Nov 5, 2014, 4:10 pm By Grist staff
Hello. You can come out of the closet now. We know, it’s a scary day. You haven’t wanted to face…Holy sh*t, a town in Texas just banned fracking
Nov 5, 2014, 3:31 pm By Sara Bernard
This was the year of the fracking ban, at least in local elections: Eight municipal and county-wide…Watch Stephen Colbert make fun of major networks’ election coverage
Nov 5, 2014, 2:45 pm By Amelia UrryThere are few things sillier than live election coverage but leave it to Stephen Colbert to take the…Why Jon Stewart is excited about Mitch McConnell’s win
Nov 5, 2014, 1:23 pm By Ted AlvarezJon, baby, I spoke too soon. Here I am, crying in my breakfast beer and despairing that a landslide…Clean energy may be dead in D.C., but here’s how you can lead the charge
Nov 5, 2014, 12:58 pm By Sam Bliss
How can communities lead the charge toward a future powered by the wind and sun? That’s the…The new GOP Senate is already gearing up to cause climate mayhem
Nov 5, 2014, 7:30 am By Ben Adler
On Tuesday night, Republicans won big: They picked up governorships in blue states like Maryland,…Three climate hawks who won their races
Nov 5, 2014, 5:54 am By Lisa Hymas
There were a few wins for the climate movement on Tuesday night. And, alas, a greater number of…Food votes: GMO labels rejected in Colorado, probably Oregon; Berkeley taxes soda
Nov 5, 2014, 4:08 am By Nathanael Johnson
Despite all the media chatter over which party controls the Senate, as Jonathan Chait has pointed…This tool-lending library brings the sharing economy out of the city and onto the farm
Nov 4, 2014, 8:21 pm By Darby Minow Smith
You might associate the sharing economy with Uber and San Francisco, but there’s a version of the…Which plants will survive climate change? This greenhouse could have the answers
Nov 4, 2014, 7:25 pm By Liz Core
In Durham, N.C., there’s a biotechnology lab where scientists are figuring out who will win, and…Meet the mom leading the fight against fracking in Santa Barbara
Nov 4, 2014, 3:51 pm By Tara Lohan
This story is a part of Faces of Fracking: Stories From the Front Lines of Fracking in California.…You kids get off my sidewalk: Baby boomers want walkable cities, too
Nov 4, 2014, 2:40 pm By Liz Core
As much as many millennials wouldn’t like to admit it, they may have more in common with their…When Republicans say crazy sh*t, it ought to matter
Nov 4, 2014, 11:01 am By David Roberts
These midterm elections have been too depressing to write about much, but I would like to make one…
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