Norway is all in on electric cars. What can the U.S. learn?
Norway’s crusade to eliminate gasoline powered cars was years in the making. Can that achievement be replicated?
Grist by Rod McCullom, Undark
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Boosted by Trump, banks resume their love affair with fossil fuels
A new report reveals massive backtracking on climate pledges.
Grist by Henry Carnell, Mother Jones
A deadline looms for a new Colorado River plan. What happens if there isn’t one?
The clock is ticking on the Colorado River. The seven states that use its water are nearing a 2026 deadline to come up with new rules for sharing its shrinking supplies. After more than a year of deadlock, there are rumblings of a new plan, but it’s far from …
Grist by Alex Hager, KUNC
These fishermen made peace with offshore wind. Then Trump came along.
Called “traitors” at the docks, over 100 East Coast fishermen are also working for wind developers. Many voted for a president who wants to tear it all down.
Grist by Clare Fieseler, Canary Media
Trump and the energy industry are eager to power AI with fossil fuels
At a Pittsburgh summit, the Trump administration, energy executives, and tech barons joined as one to promote AI as the future of fossil fuels.
Grist by Molly Taft, WIRED
Georgia sterilization plants using toxic gas among those exempt from new rules
Exemption allows facilities using ethylene oxide, a gas linked to health problems in humans, two more years to meet federal standards.
Grist by Drew Kann, The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Why your energy bill is suddenly so much more expensive
And why it’s not getting cheaper any time soon.
Grist by Umair Irfan, Vox
Trump administration gives coal plants and chemical facilities a pass
In Texas and across the nation, scores of coal-fired plants and petrochemical facilities are allowed to bypass toxic emissions rules.
Grist by Elena Bruess, Capital & Main
Trump targets federal employees working on conservation and environmental protection
A new round of furlough notices were issued to EPA employees last week, while the Interior Department disclosed plans to cut positions affecting national parks, endangered species, and toxic contamination research.
Grist by Katie Surma, Inside Climate News
The Trump administration’s data center push could open the door for new forever chemicals
The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals — with limited oversight.
Grist by Molly Taft, WIRED
Despite Trump-era reversals, 2025 still saw environmental wins. Here are 7 worth noting.
Environmental advocates notched key wins at local and state levels this year — despite the Trump administration’s rollbacks.
Grist by Maya Yang, The Guardian
The fight for the heart of the US Environmental Protection Agency
One year after the Trump administration threw the EPA into chaos, former employees continue to push back—and to dream of an agency reborn.
Grist by Madeline Ostrander, bioGraphic
California bets on an obscure tool to replace clean air authority Trump revoked
The rules would hold pollution magnets like warehouses, ports and railyards accountable for the trucks and ships they attract.
Grist by Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, CalMatters
In coal country, black lung surges as federal protections stall
While the Trump administration is directing hundreds of millions of dollars to coal projects, miners in Appalachia are suffering from a resurgence of black lung disease. But industry pushback is delaying federal rules that would reduce miners’ exposure to dea…
Grist by Kate Morgan
Wild blueberry farms across Maine suffer as climate change upends growing seasons
Like lobster rolls, wild blueberries are iconic in Maine. But heat and drought have set the plants back to a point where many small farmers are struggling against reduced yields and increased costs for mulch and irrigation.
Grist by Sydney Cromwell, Inside Climate News
Solar to overtake coal on Texas grid for the first time ever this year
The Trump administration likes to cast renewables as a socialist scam, but solar has soared in the competitive markets of the Lone Star State.
Grist by Julian Spector, Canary Media
The EPA just walked back Hawai‘i’s plan to retire its dinosaur power plants
By throwing a wrench in the state’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan, advocates say Hawaiian Electric Co. can sidestep rules years in the making.
Grist by Twilight Greenaway
Federal agency to open tens of thousands of acres of Colorado wilderness to oil drilling
Wildlife habitat, endangered animals, and recreation could all be at risk in the state’s biggest public land sale in modern history.
Grist by Jennifer Oldham, Capital and Main
Trump uses wartime powers to dole out $700 million to ‘clean, beautiful’ coal
The president announced plans for two new coal plants in Alaska and West Virginia, using the Defense Production Act.
Grist by Dharna Noor, Oliver Milman, The Guardian
‘Every day it’s more barriers’: how the US is shutting out climate refugees
As the US shuts its doors to most refugees, there’s little hope of a new system to help those forced from home by climate impacts.
Grist by Oliver Milman, The Guardian
Want a deal on a heat pump? Team up with your neighbors.
Bulk buying is a tried-and-true way to get discounts on rooftop solar. Now programs aimed at heat pumps are popping up too, helping people save thousands of dollars.
Grist by Alison F. Takemura, Canary Media
Is New England’s new hydropower transmission line paying off?
The flow has been stop and go for the first few months, but the line shows plenty of potential to boost Massachusetts’ renewable energy supply.
Grist by Sarah Shemkus, Canary Media
Cow manure could be the next data center fuel
The manure-to-energy field has a new sales pitch. Critics warn it could mean even more factory farms.
Grist by Marin Scotten, Sentient
A New Mexico town is running dry. An immigration detention center is its biggest water customer.
The town of Estancia and the ICE facility are trucking in water until a new well is drilled.
Grist by Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News
How to build homes that can survive extreme heat
As heat waves strain the power grid, passive cooling can help homes stay safer when the air goes out.
Grist by Sara Herschander, Vox
‘Why take those jobs away?’: The unionized workers decrying Trump’s war on wind
Workers proud of their efforts to grow renewable energy say the U.S. president is pursuing a "personal vendetta" at their expense.
Grist by Michael Sainato, The Guardian
Here’s how offshore wind helped New England beat record heat
The region has added dozens of turbines off the East Coast since last summer. They and other clean energy sources cut the need for oil power amid recent hot weather.
Grist by Maria Gallucci
Wildfire prevention has always been a challenge in the West. Hotter, drier weather is making it worse.
In Western states, climate change is starting to overwhelm the old techniques that used to keep fires from raging out of control.
Grist by Leia Larsen
This Texas coal mine will soon be home to a 1.2GW solar farm
Panamint Capital broke ground on a $1.7 billion solar and storage project at the Calvert coal mine. The mine and an adjacent coal plant will stay online.
Grist by Maria Gallucci
As Montana warms, Missoula’s first heat map reveals hidden hotspots
Researchers have found that the amount of green space and shade in a neighborhood can significantly shape temperatures. On average, neighborhoods with more trees and green space — instead of impermeable surfaces like pavement — can run anywhere from 1 to 7 de…
Grist by Ellis Juhlin
The climate movement gave this Texas tribe millions and a global platform. No one checked its story.
How the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe turned family lore into money, media, and a place at the United Nations.
Grist by Tristan Ahtone
The EPA’s data on cancer risk from air pollution has gone dark
For decades, communities have relied on the agency's cancer risk estimates to hold polluters accountable. This year, it's missing.
Grist by Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Mining executives bought stock in their own firm days before Trump shrank Bears Ears
House Democrats have opened an investigation for insider trading.
Grist by Leia Larsen
The market for used EVs ‘is so hot’ right now
Sales of used EV sales continued to surge in July, the latest data show, and “there are so many used EVs available at a good price point."
Grist by Tik Root
Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’
Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled.
Grist by Gabrielle Canon
Trump ordered to release billions in climate grants meant for Black communities
From the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, to sewage problems in Alabama, stalled projects could get new life after federal court rulings.
Grist by Adam Mahoney, Capital B
West Point’s only climate scientist fired after continuing to teach human causes of climate change
Adam Kalkstein compared the administration’s order to trying to teach the law without mentioning the Constitution.
Grist by Richard Luscombe, The Guardian
With the midterms looming, Trump has no real way out of his gas price problem
The president is facing a shortage of refining capacity, and more Venezuelan oil isn't going to help.
Grist by Jake Bittle
A hard-won rule to cut chemical plant pollution is being unraveled
In 2024, the Biden administration enacted wide-ranging regulations to protect communities near petrochemical plants from air toxics. The Trump administration has since granted exemptions to scores of polluting facilities and is working to rewrite the long-awa…
Grist by Beth Gardiner
Former EPA officials: Trump is letting data centers make people sick
“Families shouldn’t have to pay for the AI boom with their health.”
Grist by Sophie Hurwitz
Why Germany is building an ark for US climate data
As researchers around the world begin work on the next U.N. climate assessment, fears are growing that the Trump administration could meddle with critical U.S. climate data. In response, scientists are preparing to transfer vast troves of that data to reposit…
Grist by Christian Schwägerl, Yale E360
After Trump opened Bears Ears land to business, prospectors swooped in
All the claims on the 1.2 million acres of newly opened land appear to have been filed by small-scale miners in Utah with an interest in uranium.
Grist by Leia Larsen
The Northeast’s reliance on heating oil is turning into a crisis
Heating oil costs could jump 50 percent in the Northeast, testing a safety net that the Trump administration has repeatedly sought to kill.
Grist by Tik Root
Trump is gutting the Endangered Species Act. These 10 species show what’s at stake.
Hundreds of imperiled species, including North Atlantic right whales and rusty patched bumble bees, could face greater threats from industry and development.
Grist by Grist staff
The bipartisan energy bill tearing the climate movement apart
A long-awaited permitting reform proposal would make renewables easier to build, but at a potential cost to communities and the environment.
Grist by Jake Bittle, Austin Corona