Articles by Jena Brooker
Jena Brooker is an environmental reporter for BridgeDetroit and was Grist's 2021 Midwest reporting fellow.
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![Northern Illinois Food Bank]()
![Northern Illinois Food Bank]()
Food banks are struggling to fill their shelves, and it’s not just supply chain issues
Climate change, inflation, and price gouging are also at play.
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![An electric vehicle charging station sign and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe flag]()
![An electric vehicle charging station sign and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe flag]()
Midwest tribes awarded $6.6 million to build their own EV charging network
After years of battling pipelines, it's another way to fight back against fossil fuels.
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![Great Kiva at Pueblo Bonito Ruin Chaco Culture National Historic Park New Mexico]()
![Great Kiva at Pueblo Bonito Ruin Chaco Culture National Historic Park New Mexico]()
Biden proposes 20-year drilling ban near sacred Indigenous site
The plan would stop all future drilling within 10 miles of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico.
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![A Black mother and her child stand together at the kitchen sink in Flint, Michigan]()
![A Black mother and her child stand together at the kitchen sink in Flint, Michigan]()
Flint water crisis victims reach $626 million settlement
The record breaking settlement is still just “a Band-Aid on a bullet wound,” residents say.
