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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![Food cooking over a wood-fired stove in the Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenya, in 2015.]()
![Food cooking over a wood-fired stove in the Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenya, in 2015.]()
Billions of people cook over open fires. Are gas stoves the solution?
Last week in Paris, dozens of countries agreed to tackle harmful cooking methods — but sidestepped the controversial question of how to replace them.
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![Aerial view of Plant Scherer, a coal-fired power plant in Juliette, Georgia.]()
![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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![Power transmission lines span toward San Antonio, Texas, the United States, on July 18, 2022.]()
![Power transmission lines span toward San Antonio, Texas, the United States, on July 18, 2022.]()
Who’s afraid of a 300-mile transmission line that could help decarbonize the Southeast?
Louisiana lawmakers and local utilities.
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![Energy efficient flourescent replacement lightbulbs]()
![Energy efficient flourescent replacement lightbulbs]()
The lowly light bulb is the Biden administration’s latest climate-fighting tool
The DOE is tripling efficiency standards for light bulbs, a move that will cut CO2 emissions by 70 million metric tons and save consumers $27 billion over 30 years.
