Articles by Environmental Justice Fellow Gautama Mehta
Gautama Mehta is the the 2024-2025 Grist environmental justice reporting fellow.
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As Pennsylvania chooses the next president, its unions are choosing clean energy
A coalition of trade unions have launched a new advocacy group, Union Energy, to ensure that Pennsylvania's workers get a “just transition” to a fossil-fuel-free economy.
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Why Mississippi coal is powering Georgia’s data centers
With electricity demand spiking, the Southern Company has opted to keep burning fossil fuels.
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Humans know very little about the deep sea. That may not stop us from mining it.
With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the world’s ocean floor.
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Permitting reform is back. Is the latest deal worth it?
Senators Joe Manchin and John Barrasso offer a devil’s bargain: new power lines for clean energy transmission at the cost of more fossil fuels.
