Electric Bills are Bonkers. What Can We Do About It?

February 27, 2026

Around the country, electric bills have been rising a lot in recent years. Climate-amplified extreme weather isn’t helping. “ Large swaths of the...

EPA Cancels Billions in Grants. Recipients Won’t Back Down.

February 20, 2026

Congress approved billions for federal grants and programs through the EPA during the Biden administration. Those dollars were meant to help...

Figure It Out…Or Else: Feds to Colorado River States

February 13, 2026

It’s been an unusually warm and dry winter across the west, and that’s bad news for the seven states and 40 million people that rely on water from the...

Crude Behavior: Venezuela and the Global Politics of Oil

February 6, 2026

On January 3, U.S. forces captured Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, and flew them to New York to stand trial for drug trafficking...

Under the Weather: The Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis

January 30, 2026

As the planet warms, the story of climate change is increasingly becoming a story about human health. Rising temperatures, wildfire smoke, flooding...

Beyond the Obvious: What We’re Watching in 2026

January 23, 2026

We’re only about a month into the new year, and already so much has happened – from the Trump administration’s forcible removal of Venezuela’s...

Crop Shoot: Farmers Caught Up In Policy Turmoil

January 16, 2026

Agriculture is directly responsible for 10% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates emissions from...

Inside The Chaotic, Lucrative ‘Disaster Economy’ with Grist

January 9, 2026

It’s been a year since catastrophic fires tore through Los Angeles. For those who lived through them, the impacts are still being felt. Haley Geller...

ENCORE: Gloria Walton and Wawa Gatheru Believe in Grassroots Change, Not Just Charity

January 2, 2026

Those standing up to climate and environmental injustice face challenges they weren’t seeing a year ago. But Gloria Walton, president and CEO of The...

ENCORE: Solar Power to the People

December 26, 2025

At this moment, the cheapest way to create electricity is by pointing a solar panel at the sun. That’s good news for the climate. It’s also good news...