Articles by Senior Staff Writer Kate Yoder
Kate Yoder is a senior staff writer covering climate change through the lens of language, culture, and history. Her work has received a FOLIO: Eddie & Ozzie Award and a SEAL Environmental Journalism Award for bringing fresh perspective and social relevance to environmental issues. She has been at Grist since 2015 and is based in Seattle.
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![Photo of Nancy Pelosi signing a bill as people around her clap]()
![Photo of Nancy Pelosi signing a bill as people around her clap]()
Most Americans don’t know the country’s biggest climate law helps the climate
Two years on, the Inflation Reduction Act is seeing results — but not name recognition.
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![Digital collage of a politician giving a speech at a podium in front of an American flag with two hands holding a sign that reads Yes to Renewable Energy Now!]()
![Digital collage of a politician giving a speech at a podium in front of an American flag with two hands holding a sign that reads Yes to Renewable Energy Now!]()
Politicians don’t get how popular climate action is. That’s a problem.
The misperception gap widens when officials get more money from fossil fuel interests.
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![Photo of Senator Edmund Muskie at his desk with globe in background]()
![Photo of Senator Edmund Muskie at his desk with globe in background]()
The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s
It wasn't just scientists who were worried, but Congress, the White House, and even Sports Illustrated.
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Is there a wrong way to talk about climate change?
In a provocative new book, Genevieve Guenther argues that too many conversations are happening on the fossil fuel industry's terms.
