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Hello everyone, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jesse Nichols, a video producer and reporter at Grist, and today we’re going to be talking about how worsening climate impacts are raising the profile of a largely overlooked section on state ballots: The race for insurance commissioner. If you watched the presidential debate earlier […]

Barcelona is using the regenerative braking of its subways to power trains, stations, and neighborhood EV chargers. Could New York do it too?

Plonts, a new plant-based cheese, is taking an irreverent approach to swaying consumers.

As premiums skyrocket, voters are starting to pay attention to one of the most obscure positions on the ballot.

Attorney General Rob Bonta said the company has “manipulated the public and lied to consumers.”

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has for months debated adopting a minimum energy efficiency standard for new homes. On Monday, lawmakers demanded action.

Planting trees in cities sounds simple. Here's why the Forest Service is spending $1.5 billion on it.

Federal rules that undermine Indigenous economies make development too tedious.

Middletown, Ohio received funding through the Inflation Reduction Act to build one of the largest hydrogen fuel furnaces in the world.

Montana’s population is among the oldest in the country, and those over 65 are especially vulnerable to heat-related illness.

The answer depends on their political affiliation.

Residents and legal advocates ask the EPA to keep enforcing Title VI civil rights protections.

The particles are everywhere, and they may harm human health.

Damage estimates for Hurricane Francine are rolling in. The true costs could be much higher.

They've mapped an unwelcome guest: the lone star tick.

“Routine municipal practices” are all it takes, but two problem states are defying the trend.

A storytelling fellowship for resettled youth empowers them to tell their own stories of displacement, countering media stereotypes of refugees.

Environmental activists are struggling with paranoia, panic attacks, and depression. Now, a growing network of mental health shelters in South America hopes to fill a void in care.

"At some point, they will kill you and kill all of us," environmental leader Yuvelis Natalia Morales Blanco was told.

There’s been a proliferation of data-driven mapping tools that illuminate disparities in environmental harm, but they do little to compel suitable solutions — especially for incarcerated people.