Articles by Gautama Mehta
Gautama Mehta was the 2024-2025 environmental justice reporting fellow at Grist. He previously worked as a climate reporter at the Macon Telegraph in Georgia, general assignment reporter at the Biloxi Sun Herald in Mississippi, and reporting fellow at Coda Story. He was born in New York City and attended the University of Chicago.
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![A coal ash pond next to a body of water in foreground. A coal plant in the background and behind it the skyline of the city of Richmond, Virginia.]()
![A coal ash pond next to a body of water in foreground. A coal plant in the background and behind it the skyline of the city of Richmond, Virginia.]()
Power companies would rather not clean their toxic messes. Trump’s EPA is granting their wish.
Advocates fear the agency will “justify avoiding any enforcement whatsoever” of millions of tons of coal ash nationwide.
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Trump’s agenda won’t let his energy secretary achieve ‘energy abundance’
Chris Wright is no hater of renewables, nuclear power, or transmission. But the Trump administration’s energy policy is a contradictory mess.
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What Trump’s executive action could do to offshore wind
A simple legal strategy could spell the end of the fledging industry, which had been poised for renewal. But it may also backfire.
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Another year, more power outages in Puerto Rico
Unstable electricity is a fact of life on the island, where privatization, underinvestment, and climate change leave the grid at constant risk of collapse.
