Canada’s Northwest Territories declare a state of emergency as more than 230 wildfires rage
Aug 16, 2023, 7:27 pm By Lyric AquinoMore than 230 fires are burning in the Northwest Territories of Canada, scorching over 8,000 miles…Youth plaintiffs in the historic Held v. Montana climate lawsuit have a verdict
Aug 16, 2023, 3:39 pm By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “Plaintiffs have a fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful…Biden’s landmark climate law turns one today. Here’s what you missed.
Aug 16, 2023, 8:45 am By Tik Root
As Maui sweeps up the ashes from America’s deadliest wildfire, water-logged Vermont can’t get a…Why John Podesta thinks the Inflation Reduction Act is the next Obamacare
Aug 16, 2023, 8:30 am By Zoya TeirsteinOne year ago, President Joe Biden inked the largest investment in fighting climate change in United…‘Where are they?’ With government aid still spotty, Maui locals funnel supplies to fire survivors.
Aug 15, 2023, 10:40 pm By Gabriela Aoun Angueira
Inside the Hawaiian Canoe Club hale, or house, volunteers set out boxes filled with donated diapers,…ʻWhere are they?ʻ With government aid largely absent, locals funnel supplies to West Maui
Aug 15, 2023, 10:40 pm By Gabriela Aoun Angueira
Inside the Hawaiian Canoe Club hale, or house, volunteers set out boxes filled with donated diapers,…Feds ease up on Colorado River restrictions — for now
Aug 15, 2023, 9:57 pm By Jake BittleThe water shortage crisis on the Colorado River is improving, but it’s far from over. That was the…Protecting livestock from heat
Aug 15, 2023, 1:00 pm By Siri Chilukuri
Hello, and welcome to the latest edition of Record High. I’m Siri Chilukuri, a reporting fellow at…Livestock are dying in the heat. This little-known farming method offers a solution.
Aug 15, 2023, 8:45 am By John McCracken
This story is part of Record High, a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how —…Montana youth win a historic climate case
Aug 14, 2023, 11:00 pm By Katie MyersA state judge in Montana gave climate activists a decisive win on Monday when she ruled that the…How Maui’s wildfires became the country’s deadliest in more than a century
Aug 14, 2023, 9:32 pm By Max GrahamThe wind picked up on Maui the night before the fires broke out. By early morning on August 8, gusts…What one school’s fight to eliminate PFAS says about Indian Country’s forever chemical problem
Aug 14, 2023, 8:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
Laurie Harper, director of education for the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School, a K-12 tribal school on the…What it might look like if President Biden really declared a climate emergency
Aug 14, 2023, 8:30 am By Akielly HuThis story is part of Record High, a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how —…Gulf Coast carbon capture gets $1 billion boost from Biden administration
Aug 14, 2023, 8:15 am By Lyric AquinoThe Biden administration announced its biggest effort yet last week to scrub carbon dioxide out of…EPA approved a fuel ingredient even though it could cause cancer in virtually every person exposed over a lifetime
Aug 13, 2023, 1:00 pm By Sharon Lerner, ProPublicaThis story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of…The one-mile rule: Texas’ unwritten and arbitrary policy protects big polluters from citizen complaints
Aug 12, 2023, 1:00 pm By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of…The ocean is shattering heat records. Here’s what that means for fisheries.
Aug 11, 2023, 8:45 am By Max Graham
Scientists first spotted the Blob in late 2013. The sprawling patch of unusually tepid water in the…After a Pittsburgh coal processing plant closed, ER visits plummeted
Aug 11, 2023, 8:30 am By Katie Myers
Pittsburgh, in its founding, was blessed and cursed with two abundant natural resources:…Louisiana breaks ground on experimental project to rebuild lost wetlands
Aug 10, 2023, 11:01 pm By Katie Myers
Over thousands of years, the Mississippi River wended its way through the lush and dense wetlands of…Using ‘recycled plastic’ in construction materials may not be a great idea after all
Aug 10, 2023, 8:45 am By Joseph Winters
Last month, the American Chemistry Council, a petrochemical industry trade group, sent out a…
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