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Hello everyone, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jake, and today we’re going to be talking about how a politician’s disaster response can influence voter attitudes and election outcomes. In July 2022, a storm dropped more than 14 inches of rain on Kentucky, sending flash floods rolling through the mountainous counties in the […]

Four in 10 London children stopped driving and started walking to school a year after the city's clean air zone went into effect.

Curbing the carbon footprint of what we eat won’t require an agricultural revolution. It's already happening in farms and ranches across the country.

“There's definitely a colonial imperative in the existence of those lands."

An investigation by Grist and High Country News reveals how public institutions benefit from extractive industries on tribal lands.

At least two-thirds of methane emissions come from human activity, which is both a problem and an opportunity.

Labor and state leaders wants to land the first new U.S. smelter in 45 years. But the deal won’t happen unless Kentucky can furnish lots of clean energy.

Exceptionally wet winters drove a boom of grasses and shrubs that a record hot summer dried into the fuel now powering California's wildfires.

Climate scientists have been saying this would happen for years. It will only get worse from here.

It’s already possible to produce steel in a more climate-friendly way, but neither U.S. Steel nor Nippon Steel seems ready to adapt.

A new study suggests that framing the issue in terms of American values holds promise.

Hurricane Francine hits low-lying Louisiana. Subsidence could make the storm surge worse.

The Planetary Democrats, a European legal association, wants to create a global parliament that would represent the interests of the nonhuman world.

Natural gas power plants put in place just five years ago to replace coal in the state's Upper Peninsula are now a conundrum for regulators.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump sought to court swing state voters in gas-rich Pennsylvania in their first head-to-head match.

Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. My name is Zoya Teirstein. There is quite a bit of research on the politics of disasters and how extreme weather shapes voter behavior. We’ve cited some of it in this newsletter. Today, you’ll hear about that research through a different lens: from a researcher whose career, […]

The company nearly doubled its emissions in 2023, making it the biggest polluter in the industry.

Surviving Hurricane Katrina gave Daniel Aldrich's research a new focus: understanding how disasters shape the politics of a place.

Most were Black or Indigenous.

$500 million from the EPA will support small lenders to invest in renewable energy.