We hand-package the week’s best Grist stories. Delivered free every Saturday morning.
Δ
A nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.
In the wake of the East Palestine, Ohio, disaster, other train towns wonder: Are we next?
As climate disasters intensify, poor emergency management puts Indigenous peoples at higher risk.
E-bikes are a climate-friendly way to get around, but the industry opposes laws that would make them easier to fix.
“California is treating factory farm gas systems at dairy farms like they are devices that suck carbon from the air.”
The bleak, national assessment of the environment recommends an Indigenous rights-based approach.
Even minor census undercounts could have substantial knock-on effects and deprive needy communities of investment and representation.
The Onondaga Nation, New York state, and the U.S. Department of the Interior announced a historic agreement last week that will return more than 1,000 acres of land to the nation.
Local communities want to electrify, but gas interests have other ideas.
Offshore wind projects cropped up all over the Great Lakes region in the early 2010s. By the end of the decade, all but one were gone. Developers, though still drawn to the lakes’ powerful winds, have been reluctant to return.
