Trump’s Megabill Comes for the Clean Energy Transition

July 18, 2025

Three years ago, Congress passed President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, the largest investment in climate action in U.S. history. The IRA...

Biomimicry & Green Burial: Living and Dying with Nature in Mind

July 11, 2025

Nature can feel distant from our everyday lives. Maybe it’s a place we visit on the weekends, a getaway from the hustle and bustle, something...

He Started Tesla Employees Against Elon. Then Got Fired.

July 1, 2025

Matt LaBrot was the Tesla sales manager who got so fed up with how Elon Musk’s public persona affected the brand that he published a website...

Is the EV Transition Stuck in Neutral?

June 27, 2025

The Biden administration set ambitious goals to rapidly electrify the U.S. car market. But in spite of significant government incentives provided...

Dead Heat: The Danger Of Home Power Shutoffs

June 20, 2025

Summer is here, temperatures are rising — and so are electric bills. That also means many Americans are facing a severely overlooked issue:...

Super Pollutants: The Hidden Half of Global Warming

June 13, 2025

About half of global warming is driven by pollutants that aren’t carbon dioxide. There are several of these “super pollutants” — so named...

Three Big Thinkers With No Room for Doom

June 6, 2025

There’s so much hard and heavy news out there right now, climate related and not. It feels like decades of progress is being lost. 
“We can...

I’m Walkin’ Here! A Report Card on Congestion Pricing

May 30, 2025

For years, traffic in downtown Manhattan was a gridlock nightmare. But since January, drivers who come into the city’s busiest area during peak...

Murder, Pollution as Policy, and Two Women Who Won’t Give Up

May 23, 2025

Some may know Alexis Madrigal as the host of Forum on KQED, San Francisco’s NPR station. He’s also the author of “The Pacific Circuit,”...

Honoring Environmental Heroes in 2025

May 16, 2025

What compels ordinary people to take extraordinary actions in defense of clean air and water? Every year, the Goldman Environmental Prize...

Tracking Trump’s Attack on Environmental Protections

May 9, 2025

About fifty years ago, multiple environmental disasters, including the Cuyahoga River catching fire, forced a reckoning with how we care for the...

San José Mayor Matt Mahan: Live from SF Climate Week

May 6, 2025

Climate progress is stalling at the federal level, making local action more critical than ever. “In an increasingly urbanized world, cities must...

Solutions That Work With Grist, Project Drawdown and Jenny Odell

May 2, 2025

We are seeing the impacts of our warmer climate nearly every day. And as federal climate action stalls, it can be easy to feel despair. But...

Congressman Jared Huffman: Live from SF Climate Week

April 29, 2025

Rep. Jared Huffman has represented California’s 2nd District — from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border — for over a decade. During...

Revisiting Pope Francis: Climate Changer?

April 23, 2025

On April 21, Pope Francis died at the age of 88. The Catholic Church's first Latin American pope was known for his humility and his efforts to...

Gina McCarthy on Cutting Everything but Emissions

April 18, 2025

The Trump administration has been intent on eliminating or rolling back a huge number of environmental laws and regulations that have existed for...

Net Gains: Saving Seafood Before It’s Too Late

April 11, 2025

More than three billion people rely on seafood as a primary source of animal protein. Yet due to the effects of the climate crisis, water is...

AI’s Power Demands: Do We Really Have the Energy for This?

April 4, 2025

Artificial intelligence applications have exploded in the last couple of years, and their power demands are equally explosive. The U.S. Department...

Trump Breaks Wind?

March 28, 2025

“Coming into [the] Biden administration, there were zero commercial scale offshore wind projects approved in America. But at the end, after four...

Justice and Faith: Catherine Coleman Flowers and Justin J. Pearson

March 21, 2025

The Trump administration has been working hard to dramatically cut the size of the federal workforce and repeal numerous Biden climate policies in...