Climate Accountability
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Petrochemical companies have known for 40 years that plastics recycling wouldn’t work
New documents show how they promoted it anyway.
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![A yellow signpost that reads Warning Gas Pipeline Millenium Pipeline standing against a snowy field bordered by a dark forest.]()
![A yellow signpost that reads Warning Gas Pipeline Millenium Pipeline standing against a snowy field bordered by a dark forest.]()
Hidden subsidies prop up New York’s fossil fuel industry
The state wants to phase out fossil fuels. Localities have given over a billion dollars in tax breaks to help keep them around.
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Top 5 takeaways of our investigation into state trust lands
A Grist investigation reveals how 14 public universities continue to benefit from extractive industries on stolen Indigenous land.
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How we investigated the land-grant university system
A methodology of our efforts to reveal how land-grant universities continue to profit from stolen Indigenous resources.
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How to conduct your own reporting and research on state trust lands
A guide to using Grist's database.
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![Two boys stand on a rooftop to survey the flooding that inundated a vast swath of downtown Montpelier, Vermont on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.]()
![Two boys stand on a rooftop to survey the flooding that inundated a vast swath of downtown Montpelier, Vermont on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.]()
A Superfund for climate change? States consider a new way to make Big Oil pay.
Vermont joins three others in trying to make the fossil fuel industry finance climate action.
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Apple uses software to control how phones get fixed. Lawmakers are pushing back.
New right-to-repair laws take aim at “parts pairing,” a practice that undermines independent repair shops and creates e-waste.
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![A large liquefied natural gas tanker sits docked in the Calcasieu River in June 2023, near the site of Venture Global's LNG export terminal.]()
![A large liquefied natural gas tanker sits docked in the Calcasieu River in June 2023, near the site of Venture Global's LNG export terminal.]()
The big question behind Biden’s liquefied natural gas pause
The Biden administration will weigh the climate impacts of exporting LNG before approving new terminals. It won't be easy.
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![Smoke billows from a large power plant with two huge cooling towers set next to a pond.]()
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‘Control the narrative’: How an Alabama utility wields influence by financing news
A Floodlight investigation found Alabama Power runs a news service and its foundation bought a Black newspaper. Neither publishes critical stories about the utility.
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1 year after the toxic train derailment, is East Palestine safe? Depends on whom you ask.
"We are truly the canaries in the coal mine."
