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The American West’s megafires are silencing birds
One sound index used to monitor biodiversity fell by as much as 15 percent following particularly smoky days, according to a new study.
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The state rep who sparked Colorado’s fire recovery
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency, a limited-run newsletter about how disasters are reshaping our politics. I’m Jake Bittle, a reporter for Grist, and I’ll be writing this newsletter along with my colleague, Zoya Teirstein. It’s almost a truism that disasters offer an opportunity for positive change. That’s the idea behind President Joe […]
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How the Marshall Fire sparked a political transformation in Colorado
After the fire destroyed his town in 2021, a state rep took on insurance companies, mortgage lenders, and landlords — and beat them all.
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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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The Cochise County Groundwater Wars
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To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians
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The Roadless Rule is supposed to protect our wild places. What went wrong in the Tongass National Forest?
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How a Koch-owned chemical plant in Texas gamed the Clean Air Act
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Minnesota settles ‘deceptive environmental marketing’ lawsuit over ‘recycling’ plastic bags
The lawsuit was among a burgeoning crop of plastics litigation amid growing awareness of a global plastics crisis.
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Biden administration announces more than $2 billion in grants to boost US power grid
The grid is overburdened, under-resourced — and vital to the energy transition. New federal funding aims to increase capacity and get more clean energy built.
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On a rural Hawaiian island, solar provides a path to energy sovereignty
A community-driven effort is driving Molokaʻi's transition to solar power and cultivating a local workforce to make it happen.
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Farmworker advocates celebrate rare EPA ban of toxic pesticide
The immediate suspension of DCPA will spare workers' children "lifelong harm."
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An early-life wildfire exposure sickened these monkeys for decades
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The Gulf Coast is home to one of the last healthy coral reefs. It’s surrounded by oil.
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Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?
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How efforts to protect an Indigenous oasis almost led to its demise
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States want to clean up leaky oil wells. Well-intentioned laws are getting in the way.
Hard-to-meet federal requirements are slowing down the pace of remediation, state regulators say.
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Carbon credits are supposed to funnel money to poor countries. Do they?
Researchers say there is "no evidence" that they bring economic benefits to communities where projects are based.
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Indigenous youth are at the center of major climate lawsuits. Here’s why they’re suing.
"If I don't do it, who will?"
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High-tech textiles can protect workers from the heat — but not from their bosses
As the planet warms, laborers need special clothes to cope. But they also need government protections.
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