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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![Oil pipelines stretch across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska.]()
![Oil pipelines stretch across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska.]()
Biden approves Willow oil project in Alaska despite campaign pledge
The administration approved the controversial ConocoPhillips venture while also limiting future drilling in other parts of Alaska.
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![Storm clouds gather behind a home that was destroyed by Hurricane Ida, in Pointe-aux-Chenes, Louisiana.]()
![Storm clouds gather behind a home that was destroyed by Hurricane Ida, in Pointe-aux-Chenes, Louisiana.]()
As Louisiana’s coast disappears, its historic communities are disappearing too
New levees are too late to stop the exodus for bayou villages like Pointe-aux-Chenes.
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Are the feds sacrificing endangered salmon to help potato farmers?
Tribes say the decision to reduce water flow "has more to do with potatoes than it does fish.”
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![The LOTOS Oil Refinery and a nearby gas station in Gdansk, Poland.]()
![The LOTOS Oil Refinery and a nearby gas station in Gdansk, Poland.]()
Report: World’s fossil fuel subsidies surged to $1 trillion after Ukraine invasion
European Union countries spent big to fight rising costs.
