Washington’s Yakama Nation received both the grant and a $100 million federal loan. Held up by a series of bureaucratic hurdles, the funding could expire before the government lets the tribal nation touch a dime. | Continue reading
The country, which has more 300 days of sunshine a year, has embraced rooftop systems that harness the sun’s energy. | Continue reading
“This is not a fluke. We should expect to see more rapidly intensifying hurricanes in a warming climate.” | Continue reading
A record-breaking storm surge battered the Shore Acres community in St. Petersburg. Many residents say they are tired of rebuilding. | Continue reading
The nation’s agricultural policies — and the price of your food — are at stake this November. | Continue reading
The storm could rapidly intensify into Category 4 strength as it passes over the steaming-hot Gulf of Mexico, sending a huge surge of water ashore. | Continue reading
Funding communities burdened by pollution to monitor air quality is the “do-it-yourself approach to public health," one researcher said. | Continue reading
Meet balkonkraftwerk, the simple technology putting solar power in the hands of renters. | Continue reading
In her new book, scientist and policy expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson encourages us to envision a better future, and run toward it. | Continue reading
In the energy towns of Arkansas, the coming lithium rush is bringing with it the risk of repeating the same mistakes and inequities of the past. | Continue reading
Climate change's latest mystery came from Greenland's melting ice sheet. | Continue reading
Without a single standard, countries and companies are promising a lot of different things. | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jesse Nichols, a video producer and reporter at Grist, and today we’re going to be talking about how worsening climate impacts are raising the profile of a largely overlooked section on state ballots: The race for insura … | Continue reading
Barcelona is using the regenerative braking of its subways to power trains, stations, and neighborhood EV chargers. Could New York do it too? | Continue reading
Plonts, a new plant-based cheese, is taking an irreverent approach to swaying consumers. | Continue reading
As premiums skyrocket, voters are starting to pay attention to one of the most obscure positions on the ballot. | Continue reading
Attorney General Rob Bonta said the company has “manipulated the public and lied to consumers.” | Continue reading
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has for months debated adopting a minimum energy efficiency standard for new homes. On Monday, lawmakers demanded action. | Continue reading
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has for months debated adopting a minimum energy efficiency standard for new homes. On Monday, lawmakers demanded action. | Continue reading
Planting trees in cities sounds simple. Here's why the Forest Service is spending $1.5 billion on it. | Continue reading
Federal rules that undermine Indigenous economies make development too tedious. | Continue reading
Middletown, Ohio received funding through the Inflation Reduction Act to build one of the largest hydrogen fuel furnaces in the world. | Continue reading
Montana’s population is among the oldest in the country, and those over 65 are especially vulnerable to heat-related illness. | Continue reading
The answer depends on their political affiliation. | Continue reading
Residents and legal advocates ask the EPA to keep enforcing Title VI civil rights protections | Continue reading
The particles are everywhere, and they may harm human health. | Continue reading
Damage estimates for Hurricane Francine are rolling in. The true costs could be much higher. | Continue reading
They've mapped an welcome guest: the lone star tick. | Continue reading
“Routine municipal practices” are all it takes, but two problem states are defying the trend. | Continue reading
A storytelling fellowship for resettled youth empowers them to tell their own stories of displacement, countering media stereotypes of refugees. | Continue reading
Environmental activists are struggling with paranoia, panic attacks, and depression. Now, a growing network of mental health shelters in South America hopes to fill a void in care. | Continue reading
"At some point, they will kill you and kill all of us," environmental leader Yuvelis Natalia Morales Blanco was told. | Continue reading
There’s been a proliferation of data-driven mapping tools that illuminate disparities in environmental harm, but they do little to compel suitable solutions — especially for incarcerated people. | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jake, and today we’re going to be talking about how a politician’s disaster response can influence voter attitudes and election outcomes. In July 2022, a storm dropped more than 14 inches of rain on Kentucky, sending fla … | Continue reading
4 in 10 London children stopped driving and started walking to school a year after the city's clean air zone went into effect | Continue reading
Curbing the carbon footprint of what we eat won’t require an agricultural revolution. It's already happening in farms and ranches across the country. | Continue reading
“There's definitely a colonial imperative in the existence of those lands." | Continue reading
An investigation by Grist and High Country News reveals how public institutions benefit from extractive industries on tribal lands. | Continue reading
At least two-thirds of methane emissions come from human activity, which is both a problem and an opportunity. | Continue reading
Labor and state leaders wants to land the first new U.S. smelter in 45 years. But the deal won’t happen unless Kentucky can furnish lots of clean energy. | Continue reading
Exceptionally wet winters drove a boom of grasses and shrubs that a record hot summer dried into the fuel now powering California's wildfires. | Continue reading
Climate scientists have been saying this would happen for years. It will only get worse from here. | Continue reading
It’s already possible to produce steel in a more climate-friendly way, but neither U.S. Steel nor Nippon Steel seems ready to adapt. | Continue reading
A new study suggests that framing the issue in terms of American values holds promise. | Continue reading
Hurricane Francine hits low-lying Louisiana. Subsidence could make the storm surge worse. | Continue reading
The Planetary Democrats, a European legal association, wants to create a global parliament that would represent the interests of the nonhuman world. | Continue reading
Natural gas power plants put in place just five years ago to replace coal in the state's Upper Peninsula are now a conundrum for regulators. | Continue reading
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump sought to court swing state voters in gas-rich Pennsylvania in their first head-to-head match. | Continue reading