By January 2018, Vanessa Dominguez and her husband had been flirting with moving to a different neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, for a few years. Their daughter was enrolled in one of the best elementary schools in the county, but because the family lived just outside the district’s boundary, her...
¿Su comunidad está en riesgo? Cómo acceder a la información y contar historias sobre el EtO
Read this in English. Cómo surgió esta historia Cuando las reporteras de Grist comenzaron a hablar con defensores del medio ambiente sobre el óxido de etileno en 2023, escuchamos repetidamente que los almacenes eran una amenaza y que ni los reguladores ni los activistas comunitarios tenían idea de dónde estaban...
Is your community at risk? How to access data and tell stories about EtO
Lea esta nota en español. How this story came about When Grist reporters began talking to environmental advocates about ethylene oxide in 2023, we repeatedly heard that warehouses were a threat and that neither regulators nor community activists had any idea where they were. The advocates emphasized that, even as...
Meet the DJs spinning Earth Day into nightlife
The vision “In the nightlife industry, the majority of the crowd is very young. Our crowd is the future. So it’s great to have them all together and be able to raise some more awareness.” — Ruben Pariente Gromark of DJs for Climate Action The spotlight Next Tuesday, April 22,...
Logging doesn’t prevent wildfires, but Trump is trying it anyway
In an emergency directive issued late last week, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced her department’s plan to expand logging and timber production by 25 percent and, in the process, dismantle the half-century-old environmental review system that has blocked the federal government from finalizing major decisions concerning national...
The fix for parched western states: Recycled toilet water
If you were to drink improperly recycled toilet water, it could really hurt you — but probably not in the way you’re thinking. Advanced purification technology so thoroughly cleans wastewater of feces and other contaminants that it also strips out natural minerals, which the treatment facility then has to add...
‘People would die’: As summer approaches, Trump is jeopardizing funding for AC
The summer of 2021 was brutal for residents of the Pacific Northwest. Cities across the region from Portland, Oregon, to Quillayute, Washington, broke temperature records by several degrees. In Washington, as the searing heat wave settled over the state, 125 people died from heat-related illnesses such as strokes and heart...
What do climate protests actually achieve? More than you think.
An estimated 5 million people around the world took to the streets last weekend in the largest show of resistance yet to President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. The “Hands Off!” protesters expressed outrage over Elon Musk’s dismantling of federal agencies and programs through the so-called Department of...
Trump said cuts wouldn’t affect public safety. Then he fired hundreds of workers who help fight wildfires.
President Donald Trump’s executive orders shrinking the federal workforce make a notable exception for public safety staff, including those who fight wildland fires. But ongoing cuts, funding freezes, and hiring pauses have weakened the nation’s already strained firefighting force by hitting support staff who play crucial roles in preventing and...
Massachusetts home-electrification pilot could offer a national model
A first-of-its-kind pilot to electrify homes on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard is set to finish construction in the coming weeks — and it could offer a blueprint for decarbonizing low- and moderate-income households in Massachusetts and beyond. The Cape and Vineyard Electrification Offering is designed to be a turnkey program that...