From Wind Boom to Political Bust: How U.S. Offshore Wind Training Programs Are Adapting to Uncertainty
For William “Billy” Bishop, a former Navy sailor and union laborer from Local 1298 on Long Island, the opportunity to work on the water again felt like an ideal career…
Citizen Science Project ‘Who Eats Whom’ Maps the Messy, Complex Realities of Global Food Webs
The food chain taught in grade-school classrooms across the world presents a neat, linear narrative: the rat feeds on garden crops, the ermine snags the rat, and the bald eagle…
Trump Endorses Diesel Export Ban as Prices Hit Record High of $6.52 a Gallon Amid Iran Conflict
Diesel prices across the United States have continued a relentless upward march, hitting record highs almost daily this month and reaching a national average of $6.52 a gallon on Tuesday,…
Trump EPA Moves to Repeal Biden-Era Carbon Regulations as Data Centers Drive Resurgence in Coal Demand
The United States energy landscape is facing a profound shift as the federal government prepares to dismantle federal carbon emissions rules for the electricity sector. Coal, long recognized as the…
A Record-Breaking, Blistering Summer Exposes the Expanding Threat of Global Heat Waves
Let’s put this summer’s extraordinary heat in perspective. Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed what so many Americans had already suspected and felt daily on their skin:…
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…