Trump Wins, Planet Loses
With control of the White House and the Senate, Republicans are poised to upend US climate policy.
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LA County sues Pepsi and Coke over plastic pollution and false advertising
The lawsuit says the companies knew the limitations of plastics recycling but promoted it anyway.
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On the ballot in your state: A guide to 2024’s climate voter referendums
Voters in nearly a dozen states will vote on measures that affect energy, water, climate disasters, and more.
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Utility regulators take millions from industries they oversee. What could go wrong?
A Floodlight analysis in nine of the 10 states that elect public utility commissioners found that more than a third of their contributions of $250 and up are from fossil fuel and electric utility interests — more than $13.5 million in all.
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Voter turnout is surging in the key swing states hammered by Hurricane Helene
What record early voting in Georgia and North Carolina says about the storm and the stakes of the election.
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Indigenous Affairs
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UN report backs up Sámi claims that mining in Finland violates their rights to land and culture
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Wildfires are coming to the Southeast. Can landowners mitigate the risk in time?
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Will exploratory lithium mining in Arizona continue near a sacred hot spring?
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Indigenous voters worry a Harris presidency means endangering sacred lands
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Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis
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Inside a California oil town’s divisive plan to survive the energy transition
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An invisible chemical is poisoning thousands of unsuspecting warehouse workers
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The people who feed America are going hungry
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To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians
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Climate-fueled extreme weather is hiking up car insurance rates
Home insurers have raised premiums after extreme weather events. Now car insurers in the U.S. are doing the same thing.
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How climate voters could swing the presidential election
In battleground states like Georgia, tens of thousands of climate-conscious voters who didn't show up in 2020 have already cast their ballots.
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The Department of Energy wants to pay companies to make greener solar panels
Only six panels on the market meet the government's sustainability standards — but that number could soon grow.
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San Francisco’s surprisingly difficult quest to turn a century-old highway into a park
A ballot measure would permanently close a coastal highway to private vehicles. If the City by the Bay can't do it, who can?
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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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A ‘first step’ toward landback: Tribes call for three new monuments in California
If approved, these national monuments would protect around 1 million acres.
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5 ways to get out the vote for climate in the final days before the U.S. presidential election
Stressed out about the election? Turn it into action.
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This disaster relief nonprofit is pioneering a clean energy alternative to noisy, polluting generators
The Footprint Project wants to create a solar-powered microgrid “lending library” to deploy during disaster recovery efforts to reduce reliance on generators, which increase air pollution and are costly to run.
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The link between climate disasters and authoritarian regimes
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m L.V. Anderson (or Laura to my colleagues), a senior editor at Grist, and I’m taking over the newsletter today to give you a wide-angle look at how climate change is affecting democracy not just in the U.S., but around the world. One of the biggest stories […]
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