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 farmer in Los Banos, California]()
![A farmer in Los Banos, California]()
In an era of drought, an obscure water contract is pitting California farmers against each other
The so-called “exchange contract” has created a surreal split-screen effect: One group of farmers has ample water. Another has almost none.
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![photo of damage caused by Hurricane Ike in Texas in 2008]()
![photo of damage caused by Hurricane Ike in Texas in 2008]()
How Congress is routing climate policy through the Army Corps of Engineers
A bipartisan bill is poised to fund massive climate adaptation projects — it just doesn’t call them that.
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![The Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell]()
![The Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell]()
As Lake Powell dries up, the US turns to creative accounting for a short-term fix
A new agreement calls for Western states to leave their drinking water in the reservoir — and act as if they didn't.
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![People float in inner tubes down Lakeshore Drive in Mandeville, Louisiana, which flooded in the wake of Hurricane Barry in July 2019.]()
![People float in inner tubes down Lakeshore Drive in Mandeville, Louisiana, which flooded in the wake of Hurricane Barry in July 2019.]()
FEMA’s new flood insurance system is sinking waterfront homeowners. That might be the point.
Premiums are ballooning in states like Florida and Louisiana — and adaptation measures won't bring costs back down.
