Impasse in the Senate Leaves the U.S. Farm Bill on Life Support as Midterms Approach
WASHINGTON — Last Tuesday marked a notable, if symbolic, return to Capitol Hill for Senator Mitch McConnell. Absent from Congress for a three-month recovery period, the veteran lawmaker wasted no…
How Trump’s repeal of the greenhouse gas rule could double new emissions from Georgia
In a lawsuit filed jointly by prominent advocacy groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the American Public Health Association, critics argue that the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed dismantling…
Ukraine’s Decentralized Energy Revolution: How Solar Power Is Keeping the Country Alive Amid Russian Strikes
This story was produced by Grist and co-published with The Kyiv Independent. On a crisp spring day earlier this year, a group of 10 men stood intently on the rooftop…
Unheard Voices in the Pacific: U.S. Territories Fight Back Against Federal Deep-Sea Mining Plans
Lou Leon Guerrero, the governor of Guam, learned about the federal government’s sweeping plan to mine her people’s waters the exact same way everyone else did: by reading the news.…
Paving the Amazon’s BR-319: The High-Stakes Battle Over Connectivity, Conservation, and Climate
For much of his career, Carlos Santos’s job involved being stranded in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. Santos is a veteran truck driver on the BR-319, a hazardous, unpaved…
The Hidden Toll of the AI Boom: Former EPA Officials Warn Data Center Expansion Threatens Public Health Amid Deregulation
While prominent tech executives and industry leaders frequently command headlines by grandstanding about the theoretical and existential dangers that artificial intelligence superintelligence could pose to the distant future of humanity,…
Trump Administration Overhauls Endangered Species Act to Legalize Accidental Killings
For more than half a century, the Endangered Species Act has stood as an indomitable pillar of American conservation. Enacted in 1973 during an era of sweeping bipartisan environmental reform,…
Georgia Regulators Face Heated Opposition Over Data Centers and Power Bills During Historic Coastal Meeting
SAVANNAH, Ga. — For more than a century, the Georgia Public Service Commission has operated almost exclusively within the confines of the state capital, holding its administrative meetings, rate-setting hearings,…
Federal Appeals Court Rules U.S. Constitution Does Not Guarantee Right to Clean Drinking Water Amid Jackson Crisis
A federal appeals court has delivered a consequential legal blow to residents of Jackson, Mississippi, ruling that the United States Constitution does not guarantee citizens a fundamental right to clean…
Proposed Transit Funding Cuts Threaten Public Transportation Networks Across Rural and Urban America
As the executive director of the Living Independent Network Corp, Jeremy Maxand spends his days doing everything within his power to help people who do not drive get around safely…