A year ago, Trump raised $8 million for Helene survivors through a GoFundMe campaign. But where did it all go? In the latest installment of @grist.org's #DisasterEconomy series, @stopitkatie.bsky.social gives a really honest look at how hard it is to get the answer. grist.org/accountabili...

This week, @grist.org published its 10th annual Grist 50 list of emerging leaders in the climate space. At a time when regulatory rollbacks and funding cuts are decimating our ability to fight global warming, this collection is a welcome moment of positivity and progress. grist.org/fix/grist-50...

Hiring news! @grist.org is growing our Local News Initiative and looking for talented reporters in: •Utah, in partnership with the @sltrib.com •Nebraska, with @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social •Northern Michigan, with @iprnews.bsky.social To apply, please visit Grist.org/careers and grist.org/updates/

ICYMI: @jbwinters.bsky.social is reporting from Geneva as the U.N. approaches a global plastics treaty. Here’s our chart-heavy look from last week on the state of the plastics crisis: grist.org/internationa...

Today, @grist.org is launching a new series, The Disaster Economy, looking at the chaotic, often lucrative world of disaster recovery. grist.org/series/the-d... Read, share, and importantly, let us know what you're seeing on the ground in your communities that you want us to report on.

In a new guide, @grist.org examines the impact Trump's environmental rollbacks and funding cuts are having on the things we all do every day. Flipping on your lights. Turning on your faucet. Paying bills. Checking the weather forecast. Feeding yourself and your families. grist.org/politics/tru...

@grist.org is thrilled to announce two new expansions to our Local News Initiative: Partnerships to place climate reporters at the @sltrib.com in Utah and @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social in Nebraska. Applications are open for the two positions now. grist.org/updates/gris... & grist.org/updates/gris...

“I don’t know if we’re living in climate denial anymore,” said one expert. “We have this new front of denial by erasure.” @grist.org's Kate Yoder reports: grist.org/language/tru...

As we've unfortunately seen this week, natural disasters can hit at any time, in any place, and upend your life. @Grist has put together a comprehensive toolkit for navigating the recovery process, from how disaster relief works to finding housing and food. grist.org/disaster101

5/ Here's a list of all the Climate and Environment Events at the WBUR Festival @moranwriter.bsky.social @katbagley.bsky.social @zteirstein.bsky.social

FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program shuttles billions of $ to U.S. towns, states, and tribes for natural disaster preparedness. The Trump admin is dismantling it. Exclusive from @gristnews.bsky.social’s @zteirstein.bsky.social & Jake Bittle grist.org/politics/fem...

Scoop from me and Jake: FEMA is ending BRIC. grist.org/politics/fem...

Woods Hole has been a company town for #ocean and #climate science for 150 years. Now, it may be one of the most extreme examples of a community vulnerable to federal spending cuts. The centers here rely heavily on government $$ to support research. My latest: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/27/s...

A 🧵 (1/ ) The world needs massive amounts of critical minerals to power the transition to renewable energy and green technologies. But as new mines open, a major question looms: Can all of this extraction be done without the same environmental and human costs associated with fossil fuels?

NEW | Unearthed: The Mining Issue. Your #phone and #electric car use metals like #lithium, #cobalt, and #nickel — which are also driving the clean energy transition. But what’s the true cost of mining these minerals? Our new series explores the overlooked impacts. grist.org/series/unear...

How the Klamath Dams Came Down. Last year, tribal nations in Oregon and California won a decades-long fight for the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story. A thread🧵...

Supreme Court declines to hear Republicans’ ‘Hail Mary’ effort to block climate lawsuits. The justices shrugged off a complaint described by legal experts as a “political stunt. grist.org/regulation/s... #SupremeCourt #Court #Climate #GreenSky #Republicans

My colleague @siisiiko.bsky.social and I wrote about the sixth International Rights of Nature Tribunal, which highlighted the "age-old stories of greed, colonization, … and the ongoing ecocide" caused by Canadian mining companies. @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/equity/in-ca...

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

The trade war Trump initiated today could tank state climate plans in Minnesota and New York and raise prices for ratepayers across the northern U.S. CHPE, set to come online next year, is one of the transmission lines experts are paying particularly close attention to. grist.org/energy/trump...

There are 360 climate, energy, and infrastructure projects totaling more than $600 million in a 50 mile radius of my town in the Hudson Valley courtesy of the previous administration. They're now at risk under Trump. How do I know the exact number? My colleague made a tool. grist.org/accountabili...

The Infrastructure & Inflation Reduction laws are often talked about in abstract terms: billions of dollars, the biggest climate legislation in US history, etc. But how exactly did this funding reshape—or hoped to reshape—your communities? New from @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/accountabili...

The scramble to save critical climate data from Trump's war on DEI | Grist grist.org/politics/the...

Super proud of this co-publication with @emdashsanders.bsky.social at ExxonKnews, about the DOE's unusual relationship with plastics industry lobbying groups. @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/accountabili...

New for @gristnews.bsky.social : A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons. grist.org/justice/biso...

Today’s chart: Despite pledges to drill in the Gulf, “The market is saturated with oil, making companies reluctant to spend more money drilling because the added product will likely push prices down…,” as @tristanbaurick.bsky.social reports. Only 1/5 of active Gulf leases are producing oil.

In 2019, Trump hired Mark Lee Greenblatt to root out corruption and waste in the Department of the Interior. Greenblatt got to work, conducting investigations across the agency of 70,000 federal employees, which oversees 30% of the United States’ natural resources and 20% of its public lands.

Nearly 2 million acres of Indigenous lands are reserved for state prison systems in 10 states. In 2024, those lands disbursed an estimated $33m in funding to carceral facilities & programs. Four states use those lands to fund detention facilities and systems for children. grist.org/indigenous/p...

Use and share our Starter Pack! Our reporters and editors provide climate news, analysis and more. go.bsky.app/7mqjANC #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis

From declaring a “national energy emergency” to exiting the Paris Agreement, here is everything Trump did on climate on Day 1. grist.org/politics/tru... From @gristnews.bsky.social's @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social and @jbwinters.bsky.social

The American Climate Corps is over. What even was it? Biden's green jobs program was never what it seemed. Now it's shutting down before Trump takes office. grist.org/politics/ame... #Biden #ClimateCorps

How states will keep fighting for climate progress under Trump Trump calls climate change a hoax. But at the state level, the climate fight will continue — or even accelerate. grist.org/solutions/ho... #Climate #ClimateChange #Renewables

Have you checked out the brand-new climate fiction collection from @gristnews.bsky.social yet? Get inspired. These 12 short stories envision what a better future could look like and how we get there. grist.org/imagine2200-... #Imagine2200 #climatefiction #fiction #sciencefiction #solarpunk

@gristnews.bsky.social reporter Jake Bittle looks at how California JUST overhauled its insurance system. Then Los Angeles caught fire. grist.org/extreme-weat...

Wondering why the LA fires have grown so bad, so quickly, so out of fire season? @gristnews.bsky.social’s Sachi Kitajima Mulkey and @mrmattsimon.bsky.social explain the factors fueling what may become the costliest wildfires on record. grist.org/climate/why-...

What’s missing from Biden’s offshore drilling ban? The western Gulf of Mexico — where the U.S. gets most of its offshore oil. @tristanbaurick.bsky.social for @veritenews.org and @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/oceans/biden...

You can't make this up: Exxon says criticisms against it are motivated by "sordid for-profit incentives and outright greed." @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/accountabili...

Exxon Mobil recently filed a lawsuit against California's attorney general and a coalition of environmental groups over their criticism of the company’s plastics recycling initiatives. grist.org/accountabili...

Need a sliver of hope on an intense climate news day? Definitely recommend this beautifully written and illustrated collection.

For 25 years, @gristnews.bsky.social has been a leader in both environmental reporting and nonprofit media. But we can't do this work without your support. Today, on #GivingTuesday, all donations are TRIPLED. donate.grist.org/memberform/?...

Here's my story for @gristnews.bsky.social on the conclusion of INC-5, the meeting that was supposed to be the last round of negotiations over a global plastics treaty. It's become clear that decision-making based on consensus is not going to yield an ambitious agreement. grist.org/internationa...