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Katherine Bagley

@katbagley.bsky.social
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Editor-in-chief at @grist.org‬. Climate journalist. Sleep-deprived mom. Mint chip ice cream enthusiast. Views expressed are my own.

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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
From the Southwest to the Jersey shore, a warming planet is altering the traditions and norms that have defined summer for generations. In a new collection of personal vignettes, @grist.org staff reflect on the changes they've witnessed in the places they love most. grist.org/culture/summ...
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The summer we love is slipping away
From the Southwest to the Jersey shore, climate change is altering the traditions and norms that have defined summer for generations.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
thank you for sharing!
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thank you!
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I spent most of this summer on sabbatical from @grist.org, driving cross-country and exploring national parks with my family. Turns out when you're a climate journalist, there really is no escaping work. grist.org/culture/grea...
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The great American road trip is in peril
My family set out to see the beauty of America’s national parks. Along the way, we saw how wildfire, flood, heat, and drought are changing them.
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Grist @grist.org · 25/03/2026
The frantic, high-tech fight to stop climate-fueled dengue fever
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The frantic, high-tech fight to stop climate-fueled dengue fever
Scientists in Brazil and Peru may have found a way to beat mosquitoes at their own game. The U.S. may soon need to do the same.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
We're hiring! @grist.org is looking for a reporter to help anchor our daily and weekly coverage as driven by the news cycle. Is that you? Come join us. Competitive salary and amazing benefits. job-boards.greenhouse.io/grist/jobs/5...
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
U.S. electricity prices have been skyrocketing: The average energy bill in 2025 was roughly 30% higher than in 2021. But what's behind this surge? Rather than looking at national trends, @grist.org broke down electricity costs by region. The results may surprise you. grist.org/energy/power...
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What’s behind your eye-popping power bill? We broke it down, region by region.
The culprit depends on where you live — but it’s probably not data centers (yet).
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The EPA just formally repealed the "endangerment finding," the federal rule that grants the agency legal basis for regulating greenhouse gases. "That’s all dead, gone, over,” Trump said. @grist.org's Jake Bittle explores why the administration’s move may well backfire. grist.org/politics/tru...
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Trump just killed the EPA’s ability to fight climate change. It may backfire.
The EPA’s repeal of the “endangerment finding” could threaten automakers and oil companies — if it survives in court.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Trump just announced the "the largest deregulation action in US history," dismantling the policy that underpins all federal climate action, and not a single person in the WH press pool has asked a follow up question about it... 🤯
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Come join @grist.org for our post-COP30 analysis this Thursday, December 11. I'll be talking to Secretary John Kerry about the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement and the completion of COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Register now: luma.com/34kdkcyw
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UN Conference Takes on Climate: Panel Discussion and Interview with John Kerry · Zoom · Luma
JUST ANNOUNCED: This event will also feature an interview with John F. Kerry, 68th Secretary of State and Grist’s editor-in-chief Katherine Bagley as they mark…
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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...
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Trump raised $8 million for Hurricane Helene survivors. Where did it all go?
On a dusty, warm day last October, nearly a month after Hurricane Helene tore across the southeastern United States, Donald Trump stood behind a podium in Swannanoa, North Carolina, to pledge funding ...
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
If you live in NYC or will be in town for #ClimateWeek, please help us celebrate the launch on Thursday September 25: luma.com/oxru1kso This special evening will feature: 🎤 Stories from Grist 50 Fixers past and present 🎉 A celebration of Grist’s 25th anniversary and the 10th edition of the Grist 50
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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...
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Introducing the 2025 Grist 50 list
Climate solutions are more important now than ever. Read about 50 leaders shaping the future of climate progress.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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/
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Careers
Grist is made up of 50 people in 14 different states with 1 shared focus… telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.
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Clayton Page Aldern @compatibilism.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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...
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The global plastics crisis explained in 6 charts
Research shows the extent of plastic pollution today — and why the U.N. is negotiating a treaty to keep it from getting worse.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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...
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Trump's environmental policies are reshaping everyday life. Here's how.
The president’s rollbacks and funding cuts are affecting your food, water, and air — even if you don’t realize it.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
@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...
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Grist and The Salt Lake Tribune partner to co-fund climate reporter
The journalist will cover climate impacts in Utah for local and national audiences.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
“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...
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Why the federal government is making climate data disappear
Under Trump, climate denial has given way to something even more dangerous: climate erasure.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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
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Disaster 101: Your guide to extreme weather preparation, relief, and recovery
From packing an emergency kit to navigating FEMA aid to finding legal services and mental health resources, this is a comprehensive guide to surviving and coping with natural disasters.
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Miriam Wasser @miriamwasser.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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...
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FEMA moves to end one of its biggest disaster adaptation programs
In an internal FEMA memorandum obtained by Grist, the Trump administration announced it plans to dismantle the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.
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Zoya Teirstein @zteirstein.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Scoop from me and Jake: FEMA is ending BRIC. grist.org/politics/fem...
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FEMA moves to end one of its biggest disaster adaptation programs
In an internal FEMA memorandum obtained by Grist, the Trump administration announced it plans to dismantle the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.
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Erin Douglas 📝 climate reporter @erinmdouglas23.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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...
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This town on the Cape is a hub for climate scientists. Under Trump, its local economy is shaking. - The Boston Globe
The small upper Cape community has been a sort of company town for environmental scientists for more than a century.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🧵 (14/ ) I am SO proud of the @gristnews.bsky.social team for this project. There are way too many people to tag that made this possible, but I'm so grateful to be at a newsroom willing to tackle big questions and do so in a thoughtful, audience-centric, and deeply reported way.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🧵 (13/ ) There are a million other stories that we could have done — and @gristnews.bsky.social will continue following this critically important issue in the months and years to come. But if you want an intro to the whole topic, Unearthed is a pretty great place to start: grist.org/series/unear...
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Unearthed: The Mining Issue
The world needs massive amounts of critical minerals to power the transition to clean energy. Can all of this extraction be done without the same environmental and human costs associated with fossil f...
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🧵 (12/ ) And lastly, unlike burning fossil fuels, the critical minerals in wind turbines, solar panels, and batteries have the potential to be recycled and reused over and over. So we looked at the companies working to establish robust recycling systems. grist.org/energy/minin...
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Mining is an environmental and human rights nightmare. Battery recycling can ease that.
Battery recycling provides economic, national security, and environmental benefits. But the United States is playing catch-up to Asian countries, particularly China.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🧵 (11/ ) A video explores how the next "gold rush" might not be on land. Seawater contains immense amounts of lithium, cobalt, nickel, etc. But can we actually tap into this seemingly boundless resource? Scientists are trying. grist.org/video/seawat... @gristnews.bsky.social
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In the race to find critical minerals, there’s a ‘gold mine’ literally at our shoreline
Instead of continuing to dig tunnels or pits, some scientists are looking to a promising yet challenging source of minerals: seawater.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🧵 (10/ ) And we also knew we couldn't produce a package on mining without offering some actual solutions. We looked at the weirdest, innovative ways that researchers and companies are trying to obtain critical minerals without mining the earth, from wastewater to weeds. grist.org/energy/the-w...
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The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, from water to weeds
Not all critical minerals need to come from digging up the earth.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🧵 (9/ ) We examined whether countries and corporations will actually respect Indigenous rights to free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) for projects on or near their lands — and what that process should look like in its best form. grist.org/indigenous/m... @gristnews.bsky.social
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Most critical minerals are on Indigenous lands. Will miners respect tribal sovereignty?
Grist spoke with five experts to understand what free, prior, and informed consent should look like in this new era of extraction.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🧵 (8/ ) Closer to home here in the U.S., there is a federal project aimed at mapping underground deposits of critical minerals. And amazingly, in this moment of intense partisanship, it has the support of both Republicans and Democrats (albeit for different reasons). grist.org/energy/criti...
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Why Biden and Trump both support this federal mineral mapping project
A U.S. Geological Survey effort to find underground deposits of clean energy metals has gotten bipartisan support.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🧵 (7/ ) The floor of the Pacific Ocean contains an incredible amount of the critical minerals the world needs for wind, solar, and EVs. But for the region's Indigenous communities, the ocean holds ancestral ties. It is now a $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed: grist.org/energy/deep-...
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Digging for minerals in the Pacific's graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed
“The soul of our ancestors, when they leave this world, they go into the deep.”
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🧵 (6/ ) Next, we head to Chile's Atacama Desert, which contains one of the largest deposits of lithium in the world. A boom in extraction is threatening already scarce water resources and the way of life for the 18 Indigenous communities that surround the salt flat. grist.org/energy/chile...
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Chile’s lithium boom promises jobs and money — but threatens a critical water source
The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are racing to protect already scarce water supplies and their way of life.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🧵 (5/ ) We then curated dispatches from communities on the front lines of mineral extraction. First up, Greenland, which President Trump is determined to gain control of for its military position and the rich deposits of critical minerals underneath its melting ice. grist.org/energy/green...
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Beneath Greenland’s ice lies a climate solution — and a new geopolitical battleground
Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China's stranglehold on the market?
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🧵 (4/ ) Next, we address a fundamental question: Is extracting critical minerals for renewable energy and green technologies any better than the world's current reliance on fossil fuels? grist.org/energy/trade... @gristnews.bsky.social
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Trade-offs of the green transition: Is mining critical minerals better than extracting fossil fuels?
Extracting resources from the Earth always comes with costs. As we race toward a cleaner, greener future, there is a risk of repeating the abuses of mining for coal and other fossil fuels.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🧵 (3/ ) We start with a set of basic explainers on why we're talking about mining at all. What are the 4 minerals shaping the world's energy future, where do they come from, and how much more do we need? grist.org/energy/criti... @gristnews.bsky.social
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A guide to the 4 minerals shaping the world's energy future
To address climate change, we're going to need a whole lot of metal.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🧵 (2/ ) At @gristnews.bsky.social, we decided to dig into this thorny question in a big way. Enter our new 10-part series, Unearthed: The Mining Issue. grist.org/series/unear...
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Unearthed: The Mining Issue
The world needs massive amounts of critical minerals to power the transition to clean energy. Can all of this extraction be done without the same environmental and human costs associated with fossil f...
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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?
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Grist @grist.org · 27/03/2025
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...
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Grist @grist.org · 20/03/2025
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🧵...
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Grist @grist.org · 12/03/2025
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
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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.”
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Joseph Winters @jbwinters.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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...
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In Canada, Indigenous advocates argue that mining companies violate the rights of nature
In Western legal systems, arguments against pollution or the destruction of the environment tend to focus exclusively on people: It’s wrong to contaminate a river, for example, because certain humans ...
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WIRED @wired.com · 04/03/2025
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.
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People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a…
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Zoya Teirstein @zteirstein.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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...
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How Trump's trade war could impact U.S. electricity prices — and state climate plans
Northern states are depending on imported Canadian hydropower to clean up their grids. What happens now?
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Zoya Teirstein @zteirstein.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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...
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Where did billions in climate and infrastructure funding go? Search our map by ZIP code.
From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
And to Jake Bittle and Matthew McKnight for this companion piece that contextualizes the whole thing: grist.org/politics/tru...
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Trump is freezing climate funds. Can he do that?
Courts have ordered the president to release Biden-era climate money — but he’s holding out.
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Massive kudos to @compatibilism.bsky.social for this amazing new tool, which we hope readers will use to understand how climate funding can transform local economies, from supporting clean energy projects to repairing bridges. Other shoutouts to @gristnews.bsky.social Teresa Chin & Parker Ziegler
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Katherine Bagley @katbagley.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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...
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Where did billions in climate and infrastructure funding go? Search our map by ZIP code.
From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood.
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The scramble to save critical climate data from Trump's war on DEI | Grist grist.org/politics/the...
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The scramble to save critical climate data from Trump's war on DEI
Researchers and activists are archiving websites and data because “policymakers and the public need good information to make the best policy."
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Joseph Winters @jbwinters.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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...
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‘Plastics are awesome’: Inside the Energy Department’s partnership with the plastics industry
Critics argue that the agency’s work with a lobbying group is a conflict of interest.
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