Forcing Workers Back to the Office Could Be Terrible for the Environment
Software engineer Leisen Huang working at Wonder Workshop, San Mateo, California, in 2015. Mother Jones; Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and Fast Company and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When office workers stopped working in offices in 2020, trading their cubicles for living room couches during COVID-19 lockdowns,…
Native Hawaiʻians Seek Self Determination After 2023’s Lāhainā Inferno
Orange light radiates from wildfires burning over Lāhainā, as seen on August 8, 2023. Gonzalo Marroquin / Getty Images via Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the evening of August 8, hours after a wildfire ravaged West Maui, Maui County’s top emergency management official, Herman Andaya,…
Democratic Lawmakers Blast Fossil Fuel Industry’s “Denial” and “Duplicity”
United States Representative Jamie Raskin appears before a US Senate Committee on the Budget hearing to examine Big Oil’s evolving efforts to avoid accountability for climate change in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.Rod Lamkey/CP/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The fossil fuel industry spent…
This Majority-Black City Has a Water Crisis That Privatization Won’t Fix
Joshua Lott/The Washington Post/Getty/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the summer of 2022, heavy rainfall damaged a water treatment plant in the city of Jackson, Mississippi, precipitating a high-profile public health crisis. The Republican Governor Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency, as thousands of residents…
Report: Taxing Fossil Fuel Extraction Could Raise Nearly $1 Trillion for Climate Aid
Flooding in Dhaka, BangladfeshSyed Mahabubul Kader/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A new tax on fossil fuel companies based in the world’s richest countries could raise hundreds of billions of dollars to help the most vulnerable nations cope with the escalating climate crisis, according to a…
Just Six Companies Create About a Quarter of Global Plastic Waste, Survey Finds
Courtesy Break Free from Plastic This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The more plastic a company makes, the more pollution it creates. That seemingly obvious, yet previously unproven, point, is the main takeaway from a first-of-its-kind study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. Researchers from a…