Articles by Ben Adler
Ben Adler covers environmental policy and politics for Grist, with a focus on climate change, energy, and cities. When he isn't contemplating the world's end, he also writes about architecture and media. You can follow him on Twitter.
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Is China repeating the U.S.’s sprawl mistake?
Major Chinese cities are ringed by desolate sprawl -- and suburbanites don't even get a private house with a yard. It leads to wasted time in cars and a lot of greenhouse gas emissions.
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De Blasio’s biggest challenge: Climate change
New York City's new mayor-elect didn't spend much time during the campaign talking about global warming, but he'll likely spend a lot of his time at City Hall dealing with it.
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If you think fracking is a free-market success story, think again
The GOP-controlled legislature in Pennsylvania wants to give up to $1 billion in subsidies to the fracking industry over the next decade -- on top of big subsidies that are already approved.
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It’s Election Day, and the Koch brothers have more votes than you do
As polluting billionaires pour money into races and courts strike down campaign-finance rules, your vote counts for less.
