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As Amazon eliminates plastic packaging abroad, it’s using even more in the US

A new report finds Amazon has reduced plastic packaging the most in countries with stringent regulations.

Joseph Winters Accountability April 4, 2024

Two boys stand on a rooftop to survey the flooding that inundated a vast swath of downtown Montpelier, Vermont on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.

A Superfund for climate change? States consider a new way to make Big Oil pay.

Vermont joins three others in trying to make the fossil fuel industry finance climate action.

Katie Myers Accountability February 1, 2024

‘We are in uncharted territory’: Earth logs hottest week on record

The grim milestone arrives as rampant flooding hits the Northeastern U.S., India, and Japan.

Akielly Hu Extreme Weather July 10, 2023

California regulator fines manufacturer for knowingly exposing workers to toxic chemical

Parter Medical Products was fined more than $800,000 for exposing its workers to dangerously high levels of the carcinogen ethylene oxide.

Naveena Sadasivam Regulation March 30, 2023

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Climate reparations are becoming a reality. Here’s what they could look like.

Grist asked 10 countries how they would use the long-awaited “loss and damage” fund launched at COP28.

Grist staff Solutions December 13, 2023

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As ticks spread, the US is getting closer to understanding the true extent of Lyme disease

A revised CDC reporting system led to a 70 percent increase in reported cases of Lyme disease, but experts say more can be done.

Zoya Teirstein Health February 28, 2024

Collage of aerial view of Hurricane Helene damage in North Carolina, Trump and Franklin Graham, people praying with their arms raised, Trump's GoFundMe page, and a dollar bill

Trump raised $8 million for Hurricane Helene survivors. Where did it all go?

The presidential campaign bad-mouthed FEMA while using crowdfunding to donate to evangelical nonprofits.

Katie Myers Accountability September 24, 2025

The Trump administration wants to take an ax to the East’s last great forests

The fight over the roadless rule has long focused on the West, but its repeal could fragment some of the last pristine forests in the eastern United States.

Grist staff Regulation April 20, 2026

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How schools, hospitals, and prisons in 15 states profit from land and resources on 79 tribal nations

“There's definitely a colonial imperative in the existence of those lands."

Anna V. Smith & Maria Parazo Rose Indigenous Affairs September 16, 2024

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