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 person canoes through flooded streets in Tarpon Springs, Florida after Hurricane Idalia passed offshore on August 30, 2023.]()
![A person canoes through flooded streets in Tarpon Springs, Florida after Hurricane Idalia passed offshore on August 30, 2023.]()
‘You can’t survive this’: Hurricane Idalia strikes Florida’s most vulnerable coast
Officials and residents said the rural Big Bend region was wholly unprepared for the Category 3 storm.
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![People inside a cooling center in Portland, Oregon]()
![People inside a cooling center in Portland, Oregon]()
Why cooling centers sit empty
Lack of information, poor transit access, and plain old boredom keep people away from public cooling facilities.
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![A back fire set by fire fighters burns a hillside near PG&E power lines during the 2019 Kincade Fire in Healdsburg, California.]()
![A back fire set by fire fighters burns a hillside near PG&E power lines during the 2019 Kincade Fire in Healdsburg, California.]()
Utilities are getting sued over wildfires. Who’s bearing the cost?
As power companies spend big on legal settlements and grid upgrades, customers are seeing higher prices.
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![Collage of construction worker, water tower, and hundred dollar bill]()
![Collage of construction worker, water tower, and hundred dollar bill]()
Why it’s more expensive for Black towns to borrow money
"This is how your sewage gets funded, this is how your water gets funded, this is how public schools and public services are funded."
