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Gristby Kate Yoder11 Sept 2026
The Department of Energy overstepped when it ordered an aging coal-fired power plant in Michigan to stay open past its planned retirement date last year, a federal court ruled on Friday.
Gristby Katie Myers11 Sept 2026
On Tuesday, the day after Labor Day, a small band of activists marched past the gates of a sprawling plant nursery in Leicester, North Carolina, outside of Asheville.
Gristby Austin Corona10 Sept 2026
States that voted for Trump are leading the country in solar adoption. In recent years, Republican opposition to solar has mounted, with the Trump administration making it more difficult to build...
Gristby Tik Root10 Sept 2026
Diesel prices hit an all-time high on Friday. Then another, and another. According to AAA, the average price of diesel as of September 10 stands at a staggering $5.98 — about $2.31 more than in...
Gristby Emily Jones9 Sept 2026
For years, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has been working to make the state a welcoming home for clean energy manufacturing — EVs, solar panels, batteries for storage.
Gristby Katie Myers9 Sept 2026
Wendell Berry made his choices and stuck to them. He did not have a computer or a smartphone. He wrote more than 50 books of poetry, fiction, and essays, mostly with a pencil and paper, from his...
Gristby Sachi Kitajima Mulkey8 Sept 2026
On August 26, the side of a mountain near the border between Nepal and Tibet collapsed. Seven billion cubic feet of glacial ice and rock, enough to fill 100 football stadiums, crashed roughly a...
Gristby Kate Yoder8 Sept 2026
This summer was more than uncomfortably hot — it was record-breaking, with many countries reporting their highest average temperatures yet.
Gristby Mark Betancourt8 Sept 2026
This story was co-published with RE:PUBLIC Lands Media, an independent, non-profit news organization covering public lands. Dan Dallas had defended these communities before.
Gristby Beth Gardiner6 Sept 2026
In April 2024, Tish Taylor and her father, Robert, stood behind President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency chief, Michael Regan, as he signed a regulation designed to dramatically reduce...
Gristby Gabrielle Canon5 Sept 2026
A deadly flash flood in the Grand Canyon over the weekend was probably driven by a confluence of climate factors, including drought, wildfire scarring and warming temperatures in the Pacific Ocean...
Gristby Jake Bittle4 Sept 2026
It has been more than two months since President Donald Trump’s tentative ceasefire with Iran broke down, and gasoline prices are still high.
Gristby Vivian La4 Sept 2026
John Boyer grew up on his family’s 131 acres of rolling fields of corn, oats, and wheat in a rural area near the tiny city of East Jordan in northern Michigan.
Gristby Grist staff3 Sept 2026
The summer we love is slipping away From the Southwest to the Jersey shore, climate change is altering the traditions and norms that have defined summer for generations.
Gristby Matt Simon3 Sept 2026
One of the hottest, most fascinating new fields in science doesn’t sound particularly exciting: distributed acoustic sensing, aka DAS.
Gristby Kate Yoder2 Sept 2026
Even if you’re not wearing polyester now, it’s probably sitting somewhere in your closet — after all, it is the most ubiquitous fabric for textiles on Earth. Is that bad?
Gristby Vivian La2 Sept 2026
Michigan is investing $7.5 million to research geologic hydrogen — a clean energy source buried beneath the state that experts say could help power a transition away from fossil fuels.
Gristby Joseph Winters1 Sept 2026
This fall, 54 million K-12 students are headed back to the classroom for another year of lessons in all the classic subjects: math, English, history, biology.
Gristby Joseph Winters1 Sept 2026
This fall, 54 million K-12 students are headed back to the classroom for another year of lessons in all the classic subjects: math, English, history, biology.
Gristby Frida Garza31 Aug 2026
In 2024, an interdisciplinary team of social and marine scientists set out to examine whether the prevalence of marine heatwaves — prolonged rises in ocean temperatures that are becoming more...
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