Whole, skim, or soy? The congressional battle over milk in school lunches
Apr 18, 2025, 4:30 am By Frida Garza
In 2010, United States lawmakers passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which aimed to tackle both childhood obesity and hunger by making school meals more nutritious. Two years later, the Department of Agriculture updated its guidance for schools…How baby chickens became America’s hottest commodity
Apr 18, 2025, 4:15 am By Tik Root
Murdoch’s Ranch & Home Supply in Helena, Montana doesn’t often see a crowd. But, these days, the line to get in the door can be hours long. People have yelled at one another as they jockey for position and, inside, employees field as many 200 calls a day…The ‘king of poisons’ is building up in rice
Apr 17, 2025, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Throughout the Yangtze River Delta, a region in southern China famed for its widespread rice production, farmers grow belts of slender green stalks. Before they reach several feet tall and turn golden brown, the grassy plants soak in muddy, waterlogged fields…In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ where black communities get all of the pollution, few of the jobs
Apr 17, 2025, 4:30 am By Tristan Baurick
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and Verite News, a nonprofit news organization with a mission to produce in-depth journalism in underserved communities in the New Orleans area. Residents of the mostly Black communities…Scientists predict a brutal hurricane season while Trump takes aim at NOAA’s budget
Apr 17, 2025, 4:15 am By Matt Simon
With towns and cities in the southeastern United States still reeling from hurricanes that hit last year, scientists are now releasing their forecasts for what could unfold in the hurricane season that starts in less than two months. Colorado State University…El eslabón no regulado de una cadena de suministro tóxica
Apr 16, 2025, 6:25 pm By Naveena Sadasivam
En enero de 2018, Vanessa Domínguez y su marido llevaban unos años coqueteando con la idea de mudarse a otro barrio de El Paso, Texas. Su hija estaba matriculada en una de las mejores escuelas primarias del condado, pero como la familia vivía justo fuera de…Meet the DJs spinning Earth Day into nightlife
Apr 16, 2025, 10:50 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “In the nightlife industry, the majority of the crowd is very young. Our crowd is the future. So it’s great to have them all together and be able to raise some more awareness.” — Ruben Pariente Gromark of DJs for Climate Action The spotlight…The unregulated link in a toxic supply chain
Apr 16, 2025, 4:45 am By Naveena Sadasivam
By January 2018, Vanessa Dominguez and her husband had been flirting with moving to a different neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, for a few years. Their daughter was enrolled in one of the best elementary schools in the county, but because the family lived just…Is your community at risk? How to access data and tell stories about EtO
Apr 16, 2025, 4:45 am By Naveena Sadasivam
Lea esta nota en español. How this story came about When Grist reporters began talking to environmental advocates about ethylene oxide in 2023, we repeatedly heard that warehouses were a threat and that neither regulators nor community activists had any idea…¿Su comunidad está en riesgo? Cómo acceder a la información y contar historias sobre el EtO
Apr 16, 2025, 4:45 am By Naveena Sadasivam
Read this in English. Cómo surgió esta historia Cuando las reporteras de Grist comenzaron a hablar con defensores del medio ambiente sobre el óxido de etileno en 2023, escuchamos repetidamente que los almacenes eran una amenaza y que ni los reguladores ni…Why the shipping industry’s new carbon tax is a big deal — and still not enough
Apr 16, 2025, 4:30 am By Joseph Winters
Each year, all the cargo ships that crisscross the oceans carrying cars, building materials, food, and other goods emit about 3 percent of the world’s climate pollution. That’s about as much as the aviation sector Driving down those emissions is…The obscure policy that financed many of the last decade’s riskiest energy investments is back
Apr 16, 2025, 4:15 am By Gautama Mehta
Last week, Missouri governor Mike Kehoe signed into law a bill that packaged together dozens of reforms to utility regulations. Among them was a provision called “construction work in progress,” or CWIP, which allows power companies to bill their customers…A Chicago law could shift where heavy industry operates — and who bears the burden of pollution
Apr 16, 2025, 4:00 am By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. Chicago city leaders are set to consider a major overhaul in how and where polluting businesses are allowed to open,…Looking to create effective climate change policy? Ask the community.
Apr 15, 2025, 10:30 am By Grist Creative
For Peter Hasegawa, it all started with the heat dome. The labor organizer remembers the 2021 extreme heat event that killed more than 400 people in the state of Washington. That disaster woke up residents and union members to how deadly climate change can be.…Public lands, private profits: Inside the Trump plan to offload federal land
Apr 15, 2025, 4:45 am By Lois Parshley
The Trump administration is poised to begin offloading public land, achieving a long-held conservative goal of reducing the government’s footprint in the West. Federal agencies manage around 640 million acres, or about 28 percent of the nation’s land, an…Why the Forest Service is logging after Hurricane Helene — and why some say it’s a mistake
Apr 15, 2025, 4:30 am By Katie Myers
In the months after Hurricane Helene leveled thousands of acres in Pisgah National Forest, John Beaudet and other volunteers cleared downed trees from the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. Chopping them up and moving them aside was back-breaking work, but…New technologies are helping to regrow Arctic sea ice
Apr 14, 2025, 4:45 am By Matilda Hay
In the dim twilight of an Arctic winter’s day, with the low sun stretching its orange fingers across the frozen sea, a group of researchers drill a hole through the ice and insert a hydrogen-powered pump. It looks unremarkable — a piece of pipe protruding…Millions of Americans don’t speak English. Now they won’t be warned before weather disasters.
Apr 14, 2025, 4:30 am By Kate Yoder
When an outbreak of deadly tornadoes tore through the small town of Mayfield, Kentucky, in December 2021, one family was slow to act, not because they didn’t know what to do. They didn’t know that they should do anything. The family of Guatemalan…Trump said cuts wouldn’t affect public safety. Then he fired hundreds of workers who help fight wildfires.
Apr 13, 2025, 9:00 am By Mark Olalde, ProPublica
President Donald Trump’s executive orders shrinking the federal workforce make a notable exception for public safety staff, including those who fight wildland fires. But ongoing cuts, funding freezes, and hiring pauses have weakened the nation’s already…Massachusetts home-electrification pilot could offer a national model
Apr 12, 2025, 9:00 am By Sarah Shemkus, Canary Media
A first-of-its-kind pilot to electrify homes on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard is set to finish construction in the coming weeks — and it could offer a blueprint for decarbonizing low- and moderate-income households in Massachusetts and beyond. The Cape…
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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
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