From low birth weight to wildfire smoke, kids can bear the brunt of climate change.
https://grist.org/health/pediatricians-advised-talk-patients-parents-climate-change/
The agency's new rule excludes 75% of companies' climate pollution.
https://grist.org/regulation/sec-will-require-companies-to-disclose-emissions-with-one-glaring-gap/
At least, not fast enough to reach international climate targets.
Many turbines rely on high-demand rare-earth minerals. A new Department of Energy program aims to keep them out of landfills.
“It shouldn't have to be this hard to get these common sense rules in place.”
The key to building low-carbon infrastructure in the city? Its trademark alleys.
https://grist.org/cities/black-communities-south-side-chicago-geothermal-heat/
Grist investigation reveals 14 land-grant universities making millions off Indigenous land.
https://grist.org/climate-energy/campus-divestment-activists-eye-fossil-fuel-profits-on-stolen-land/
The problem: The pollution from all the truck exhaust is mega-dangerous.
https://grist.org/climate/quarter-new-york-state-residents-live-near-mega-warehouse/
“If you’re going to develop energy in the U.S. you’ve got to do it with the support of tribal communities."
Vermont joins three others in trying to make the fossil fuel industry finance climate action.
A federal rule makes it easier for churches, synagogues, and mosques to put solar panels on the roof.
https://grist.org/buildings/more-churches-plugging-solar-power/
Buildings are Chicago’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, but efforts to decarbonize them are facing union opposition.
https://grist.org/buildings/chicago-first-major-midwest-city-cut-gas-new-construction/
Led by California, rooftop solar installations are poised to fall 12 percent nationally this year. It’s the first decline since 2017.
https://grist.org/buildings/how-california-is-casting-a-cloud-over-residential-solar/
New study links surge of oil workers to long-term residents losing their homes.
https://grist.org/housing/how-an-oil-boom-in-north-dakota-led-to-a-boom-in-evictions/
The project is over budget and behind schedule, with a lot of hard work left to do. Its opponents hope that makes fossil fuel companies think twice about building the next one.
https://grist.org/protest/inside-the-last-ditch-effort-to-stop-the-mountain-valley-pipeline/
Proposed changes to current law spur call for an overhaul.
https://grist.org/climate/georgia-call-better-protection-marshes/
What could go wrong?
https://grist.org/climate-energy/oil-friendly-louisiana-power-to-approve-carbon-capture-projects/
Visiting Alaska is an emissions-heavy prospect. An innovative program has tourists ease that by helping buy heat pumps for locals.
https://grist.org/energy/in-juneau-alaska-a-carbon-offset-project-thats-actually-working/
After people buy back the land beneath their mobile homes, renewables tend to crop up.
https://grist.org/equity/how-mobile-home-co-ops-provide-housing-security-and-climate-resilience/
The country may have a long way to go in its decarbonization goals, but these stories show signs of progress.
https://grist.org/solutions/a-look-back-at-u-s-climate-solutions-this-year/