Grist

Maya Lilly had achieved the theater dream: studying at Juilliard. But when her environmental passion didn’t find a home there, it set her on a mission to bring climate storytelling to Hollywood.

Lawmakers say the legislation was “a long time coming.”

Federal investigators found that Alabama neglected a Black community's sewage and sanitation needs — then punished them for the results.

Jeff Hoops built Blackjewel into the nation’s sixth largest coal company by acquiring bankrupt mines. When it declared bankruptcy, he pivoted to other ventures, leaving polluted streams and mud-shrouded roads in his wake.

A pilot program in Massachusetts will give Airbnb vacation-rental owners $2,500 to install air-source heat pumps and make their properties more energy-efficient.

The town of Randolph is is now virtually surrounded by gas plants, pipelines, a hazardous waste site and a steel company contracted to manufacture the former president’s border wall.

The biofuel's bipartisan support isn't about science, but politics.

The proposed rule will ensure more than 500,000 tribal citizens enjoy clean water protections.

The state might require every electric vehicle to be capable of powering your home — and the grid — through a process called bidirectional charging.

The state has set ambitious climate targets. Now it'll build the clean energy it needs to meet them.

Justices will hear a case that challenges a long-standing precedent that underpins many public health and climate regulations.

A small Nevada company spent decades buying water. As the West dries up, it’s cashing out.

Critics want the move to go beyond raising revenue and to protect ecosystems and communities from unnecessary extraction.

The move bars non-Indigenous from any economic activity in the area and prohibits mining and logging without permission.

"Indigenous people have to be at the forefront of responses to climate change."

The new wires will help wean New England off fuel oil and natural gas.

When Nate Johnson — a former Grist journalist — felt his passion for writing start to wane, he found a new direction. Now, instead of writing about the need to electrify everything, Nate is doing that work himself.

The fate of millions of acres of wetlands hinges on five vague words in the Clean Water Act.

A grand jury and the EPA have cited potential disposal problems, and activists are fighting new injection wells. Yet the gas industry claims fracking is essential for the state’s economic health and that most of its wastewater is safely recycled.

In Franklin County, a group of locals are concerned about potential environmental harm from renewable energy facilities and support a bill that would impose more regulations on solar and wind. The industry says it’s being unfairly singled out.