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Grist hires Matthew McKnight as senior accountability editor
McKnight will help lead Grist's ambitious investigative work.
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UN plastics treaty inches closer to reality as lobbyists tout plastics’ ‘massive societal benefits’
A deal to stop plastic pollution is moving forward, but negotiators can’t agree on whether to produce less of the stuff.
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What will it take to get companies to embrace reusable packaging?
Inside the effort to standardize the design of returnable containers.
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![Aerial view of Plant Scherer, a coal-fired power plant in Juliette, Georgia.]()
EPA finally takes on abandoned coal ash ponds — but it might be too late
Will utilities clean up toxic waste at power plants, or run out an election-year clock?
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The problem with forcing people back to the office? All the carbon emissions.
Return-to-office mandates could be getting in the way of companies' climate goals.
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Have the world’s coral reefs already crossed a tipping point?
A quarter of marine life depends on coral reefs. So do 1 billion people.
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The world agreed to create a climate reparations fund. Now comes the hard part.
A 26-member board is finally beginning work on the U.N.’s new loss and damage fund.
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US military bases teem with PFAS. There’s still no firm plan to clean them up.
Excessive levels of PFAS have been detected at 80 percent of active and decommissioned military bases.
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![A sign that reads Please help God clean up Flint tacked to the side of a building with bars on the windows.]()
A decade later, Flint’s water crisis continues
The past 10 years revealed how government failures at every level could effectively kill a city, turning it into a "ghost town."
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A highway in Indiana could one day charge your EV while you’re driving it
Construction of the pilot project on U.S. Highway 52 began this month. State officials hope it can help quell range anxiety and electrify long-haul trucks.
