Articles by Staff Writer Jake Bittle
Jake Bittle is a staff writer at Grist, covering climate change, energy, and natural disasters. He is the author of The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration. He is writing a book about Kern County, California, and is currently a New America fellow.
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![a line of four houses reflected into a body of water]()
![a line of four houses reflected into a body of water]()
The little-known Nevada company making millions off the Western water shortage
A small Nevada company spent decades buying water. As the West dries up, it’s cashing out.
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![Two workers survey land cleared for the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line, which will run from Quebec through Maine.]()
![Two workers survey land cleared for the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line, which will run from Quebec through Maine.]()
Maine court recharges plan for embattled transmission line
The new wires will help wean New England off fuel oil and natural gas.
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The very bad math behind the Colorado River crisis
A century-old miscalculation has California and Arizona fighting over water. Again.
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![Water crashing over a road near Galveston Bay outside of Houston.]()
![Water crashing over a road near Galveston Bay outside of Houston.]()
The ‘Ike Dike’ is the Army Corps of Engineers’ largest project ever. It may not be big enough.
The $30 billion barrier may fail to block climate-fueled storm surge — and won’t prevent other urban flooding in Houston.
