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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![President Joe Biden walks near Chevy vehicles as he arrives to deliver remarks during a visit to a General Motors electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan.]()
![President Joe Biden walks near Chevy vehicles as he arrives to deliver remarks during a visit to a General Motors electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan.]()
Biden’s new vehicle emissions rules could speed the EV revolution
But only if the U.S. gets a lot more minerals, factories, and chargers.
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![Research ecologist Ted Kennedy drives his boat along the Colorado River as the Glen Canyon Dam is seen in the background.]()
![Research ecologist Ted Kennedy drives his boat along the Colorado River as the Glen Canyon Dam is seen in the background.]()
Feds’ Colorado River choice: California’s rights or Arizona’s future?
For the Biden administration to stabilize the river, one of the two states will have to lose big.
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![Golf resorts and urban housing developments in Arizona bordering farmlands on the Gila Indian Reservation.]()
![Golf resorts and urban housing developments in Arizona bordering farmlands on the Gila Indian Reservation.]()
US turns to tribes to help Arizona survive Colorado River cuts
Authorities will pay the Gila River Indian Community and Colorado River Indian Tribes hundreds of millions of dollars to use less water from the river.
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![Jairo Estrada, left, and Juan Espinoza work to get one of their family's car off their flooded property in Allensworth, California. Portions of the town have flooded as Tulare Lake reappears.]()
![Jairo Estrada, left, and Juan Espinoza work to get one of their family's car off their flooded property in Allensworth, California. Portions of the town have flooded as Tulare Lake reappears.]()
The ghost of Tulare Lake returns, flooding California’s Central Valley
Draining the lake allowed agriculture to thrive, but left the region vulnerable to floods.
