A couple hundred overlooked public officials control the U.S. power grid — and some of them are on your ballots.

A Floodlight analysis in nine of the 10 states that elect public utility commissioners found that more than a third of their ...

Los Angeles County announced last week that it’s suing PepsiCo and Coca-Cola over plastic pollution, arguing that the soda giants’ plastic bottles have harmed public health and the environment and ...

Past research has shown that a hurricane can both suppress and galvanize voters. An otherwise politically engaged person who ...

Helene and Milton, the two massive hurricanes that just swept into the country — killing hundreds of people, and leaving both ...

Home insurers have raised premiums after extreme weather events. Now car insurers in the U.S. are doing the same thing.

Grist series exploring how climate disasters are impacting voting and politics. It is published with support from the CO2 ...

Advocacy groups say we’re at a “key moment” to reduce plastic production and protect communities from plastic-related ...

Lead Locally is another organization working to rally the environmental vote, by focusing on building support for down-ballot ...

In swing states like Georgia, tens of thousands of climate-conscious voters who didn't show up in 2020 have already cast ...

Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how ...

The deaths of two elderly siblings and their 60-year-old caretaker at first mystified Brownsville. Extreme heat is a quiet but growing threat for Rio Grande Valley residents with chronic health ...