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Holly Jean Buck and her book, Ending Fossil Fuels

‘Net-zero is not enough’: A new book explains how to end fossil fuels

Sociologist Holly Buck wants you to know that fossil fuel phaseout isn’t a "fringe" idea.

Emily Pontecorvo Energy December 22, 2021

Collage: Detroit skyline, a record, historic photos of Detroit and a Black owned record shop, Interstate 375

A freeway ripped the heart out of Black life in Detroit. Now Michigan wants to tear it down.

Highway removal is the easy part. Making reparations is where it gets complicated.

Jena Brooker Equity December 1, 2021

A new scorecard ranked companies on environmental racism. Guess who came in last?

ExxonMobil and other oil companies got negative scores for polluting nonwhite communities.

Joseph Winters Climate August 23, 2021

What is ‘fire weather,’ and why is it getting worse?

A new study of the American West shows that climate change is driving more days that are hot, dry, and windy — the perfect conditions for deadly wildfires.

Matt Simon Wildfires September 24, 2021

Ida left behind a water crisis in the Gulf

Hundreds of thousands of people remain without drinking water -- and there's no timeline for getting it back.

María Paula Rubiano A. Equity September 8, 2021

US President Joe Biden speaks about the American Rescue Plan

Here’s how Biden is spending his first big environmental justice investment

The EPA has detailed how it will spend $50 million authorized by the American Rescue Plan.

Adam Mahoney Politics June 29, 2021

Tall buildings in a city near water with a large, green tree-filled park in the foreground

Vancouver promised to be the greenest city in the world by 2020. Here’s what went wrong (and right).

Miles of new bike lanes and light rail lines just weren’t enough.

Shannon Osaka Cities September 30, 2021

Reinventing coal country: Reclaiming America’s abandoned mine lands

As innovative models for reclamation unfold, and federal funding nears, there is new hope for the communities that once depended on coal mining.

Grist Creative Sponsored by Just Transition Fund November 18, 2021

A photograph of a field of corn in front of an ethanol plant.

Why won’t Joe Biden let ethanol die already?

The biofuel’s clean promise has only led to dirtier air.

Tom Philpott Energy February 24, 2021

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