U.S. trees burned in British coal plants count as renewable energy. WTF?
Follow this if you can: Wood from U.S. trees is being shipped over to the U.K., where coal power plants burn it, producing more greenhouse gas ...
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Support for climate action is the new normal in U.S.
ShutterstockAmericans want more of this, despite what the fossil fuel companies might say. Pick 100 Americans at random and line them up. ...
Seattle adopts plan for going carbon neutral — but will pot growers get in the way?
Shutterstock / HolyhikaruSeattle’s climate ambitions are thiiiis big. Seattle has set itself an 86-page to-do list to help it reach carbon neutrality ...
Obama in Berlin: “We have to get to work” on climate change
Reuters/Michael KappelerBarack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, enjoying Berlin’s unseasonably hot weather. President Obama keeps saying ...
Woody Harrelson wants your paper to be less, well, woody
Steve Rogers PhotographyWoody Harrelson: actor, activist, paper man. Woody Harrelson could put the crunchiest Grist staff member to shame.
We work on climate change every day
Everywhere I travel as secretary of state – in every meeting, here at home and across the more than 100,000 miles I’ve traveled since I raised my ...
16-year-old turns algae into biofuel, makes rest of us feel unaccomplished
Evie Sobczak is a young science rockstar who has already done more in her 16 years than most of us will in our entire lives (I KNOW, I should speak ...
China begins carbon trading
The latest knockoff to be produced in China is the carbon credit. On Tuesday, the nation’s first carbon-trading program was launched in Shenzhen.
Obama says a climate plan is coming next month, so climate hawks delay lawsuit
A cavalry of lawyers representing states and environmental groups was expected to launch a legal assault against the Obama administration this week ...
Chinese science academy slaps down climate-denying Heartland Institute
Heartland InstituteTranslated, yes. Endorsed, no. The Heartland Institute — the right-wing group best known for its Unabomber billboard — recently ...