Articles by Environmental Justice Fellow Gautama Mehta
Gautama Mehta is the the 2024-2025 Grist environmental justice reporting fellow.
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![Food cooking over a wood-fired stove in the Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenya, in 2015.]()
![Food cooking over a wood-fired stove in the Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenya, in 2015.]()
Billions of people cook over open fires. Are gas stoves the solution?
Last week in Paris, dozens of countries agreed to tackle harmful cooking methods — but sidestepped the controversial question of how to replace them.
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![Aerial view of Plant Scherer, a coal-fired power plant in Juliette, Georgia.]()
![Aerial view of Plant Scherer, a coal-fired power plant in Juliette, Georgia.]()
EPA finally takes on abandoned coal ash ponds — but it might be too late
Will utilities clean up toxic waste at power plants, or run out an election-year clock?
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![Power transmission lines span toward San Antonio, Texas, the United States, on July 18, 2022.]()
![Power transmission lines span toward San Antonio, Texas, the United States, on July 18, 2022.]()
Who’s afraid of a 300-mile transmission line that could help decarbonize the Southeast?
Louisiana lawmakers and local utilities.
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![Energy efficient flourescent replacement lightbulbs]()
![Energy efficient flourescent replacement lightbulbs]()
The lowly light bulb is the Biden administration’s latest climate-fighting tool
The DOE is tripling efficiency standards for light bulbs, a move that will cut CO2 emissions by 70 million metric tons and save consumers $27 billion over 30 years.
