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Amy Bowers Cordalis: ‘I got to blow up a dam’

At Grist’s Turning the Tide event at SF Climate Week, attorney and activist Amy Bowers Cordalis shared her story of three pivotal moments that brought the salmon back to Klamath.

Grist staff Grist Events May 14, 2026

A front end loader removes trash and beads left on Bourbon Street after Mardi Gras in 2009

New Orleans wants to fix its Mardi Gras mess. So why is the trash pile still growing?

This year's Carnival resulted in 1.4 tons of beads, beer cans, and other trash along the city’s parade routes — the highest total on record.

Tristan Baurick Cities May 11, 2026

Two people participating in a rally for the Environmental Protection Agency.

30 years of environmental justice, dismantled in 100 days

Under the Trump administration, policies to protect the communities most affected by pollution are "illegal."

Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco Equity May 2, 2025

Aerial photo of volunteer firefighters burning a field

How Washington State pioneered an ‘all hands, all lands’ wildfire prevention strategy

With catastrophic wildfires on the rise, Washington State has implemented a holistic approach to fire prevention — and it’s working.

Grist Creative Sponsored by Washington Department of Natural Resources March 4, 2025

A teenage girl in a red tee shirt and jeans sits pensively on a bed

Climate change threatens the mental well-being of youths. Here’s how to help them cope.

A 2022 poll of 1,500 U.S. teenagers found that 89 percent of them regularly think about the environment, “with the majority feeling more worried than hopeful.”

Bernard J. Wolfson, KFF Health News Health January 12, 2025

a fast-food worker tends to chicken pieces roasting on a grill in an El Pollo Loco restaurant

Workers are facing dangerous heat — even inside fast-food restaurants

Rising temperatures and chronically broken cooling systems are turning the lunch rush into a deadly risk for some workers.

Frida Garza Labor August 29, 2025

barrels labeled radioactive LSA and hazardous waste

Utah Republicans see storing nuclear waste as a ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’

Some think a Trump administration plan is a chance to boost communities that hemorrhaged jobs after coal plants closed.

Leia Larsen & Matt Ward Energy March 24, 2026

Cityscape of downtown Denver with the Flatirons and Longs Peak in the background from a drone perspective

Colorado’s dirty secret: A $500 billion mining industry built on Indigenous land

A new report says that it’s only a fraction of the almost $2 trillion the state has made on stolen land.

Taylar Dawn Stagner Indigenous Affairs July 8, 2024

A massive industrial plant stretches over black and gray dirt.

A coal-fired plant in Michigan was supposed to close. But Trump forced it to keep running at $1M a day.

The community had big plans for the facility site, until the Trump administration ordered it to stay open, a move it extended this week.

Oliver Milman, The Guardian Energy August 23, 2025

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