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Can utilities replace power lines with solar and batteries in remote areas?

Expanding the grid to reach far-flung customers can be a costly fire hazard. So utilities like PG&E are testing out microgrids using solar, batteries, and generators.

Jeff St. John · September 10, 2025
Grist

Nobody wants this gas plant. Trump is forcing it to stay open.

The Department of Energy is citing Trump's declaration of an "energy emergency" and voracious data centers in its decision to keep the plant outside of Philadelphia running.

Rebecca Egan McCarthy · September 8, 2025
Wired

It’s possible to remove the forever chemicals in drinking water. Will it happen?

New research shows that filtration systems that remove PFAS can also get rid of other harmful substances. Whether they’ll actually be introduced is a different matter entirely.

Molly Taft · September 7, 2025
Inside Climate News

How a rock band bassist is remixing climate activism

Adam Met of the indie-rock band AJR thinks fan-building strategies can amplify the climate movement’s reach and impact.

Ryan Krugman · September 6, 2025

Grist

Disasters destroyed their homes. Then the real estate ‘vultures’ swooped in.

“We buy homes” companies are procuring disaster-damaged properties for cheap. Survivors say they're taking advantage of tragedy.

Sophie Hurwitz · September 5, 2025
Mother Jones

Has Trump ended Staten Island’s wind power dreams?

The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.

Artis Curiskis · September 4, 2025
Guardian

Hundreds of staff at California national parks to unionize amid Trump turmoil

More than 97% at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon parks voted to unionize as president enacts major cuts

Dani Anguiano · September 4, 2025
Mother Jones

Hurricane season begins with Trump gutting the “gold standard” weather services that save lives

A conversation with Thomas E. Weber, the author of “Cloud Warriors.”

Laura C. Morel · September 2, 2025

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Why the US government is trying to revive the climate change ‘debate’

The Department of Energy is calling for "honest dialogue." It looks a lot like a playbook from the past.

Kate Yoder · September 1, 2025
Guardian

When science meets music: Florida’s oyster decline is being told through jazz

A professor teamed up with student musicians to inspire interest in data about the ‘catastrophic scale’ of the crisis

Richard Luscombe · August 31, 2025
Grist

Antarctica is in extreme peril

"Abrupt changes" threaten to send the continent past the point of no return, a new study finds.

“Abrupt changes” threaten to send the continent past the point of no return. · August 30, 2025
Mother Jones

They survived Katrina and started to rebuild. Now Trump’s cuts may flood them out again.

DOGE killed off the FEMA program that Algiers has used to begin mitigating its flooding problem.

Stephanie Mencimer · August 28, 2025