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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![Map of Chico, California, with bottom half covered in a photo of a wildfire and a line of flames bisecting the two images]()
![Map of Chico, California, with bottom half covered in a photo of a wildfire and a line of flames bisecting the two images]()
This California city needs housing. But is a new development destined to burn?
Still reeling from the 2018 Camp Fire, Chico residents are divided over a large new subdivision planned in the path of the last blaze.
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![Floodwater surrounds a farm near Craig, Missouri.]()
![Floodwater surrounds a farm near Craig, Missouri.]()
9 in 10 US counties have experienced a climate disaster in the last decade, report finds
Climate change is here and “all taxpayers are paying for it.”
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![Maura Healey speaks to attendees of the Massachusetts Democratic Party's election-night event.]()
![Maura Healey speaks to attendees of the Massachusetts Democratic Party's election-night event.]()
What the midterm elections mean for the climate — so far
As control of Congress leans right, hope for action shifts to the White House and states.
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![U.S. Senator Mark Kelly speaks during a campaign event with former President Barack Obama in Phoenix, Arizona.]()
![U.S. Senator Mark Kelly speaks during a campaign event with former President Barack Obama in Phoenix, Arizona.]()
Drought looms over midterm elections in the arid West
Democrats Mark Kelly and Catherine Cortez Masto fought for drought funding. They may both lose their seats.
