At Aspen Ideas, the White House unveiled a new logo for the American Climate Corps and told grist that a long-awaited jobs portal for the program with a couple hundred open positions will launch next month. grist.org/politics/jobs-…

Big Oil faces a flood of climate lawsuits & they’re moving closer to trial. 1/4 of Americans live in cities & states taking companies to court over lying to the public. by Kate Yoder grist.org/accountability…

i wrote about the threat of the environmentalist tyrant in 'the curse,' and why it makes us so uneasy: grist.org/culture/why-we…

Spoke to Kate Yoder at grist about a new report by Center for Countering Digital Hate analysing climate misinformation on Twitter using the CARDS model developed by Travis Coan, Constantine Boussalis & Mirjam Nanko. CCDH finds (as we did) that misinformation is transitioning to solutions grist.org/accountability…

Good chance there will be a ballot initiative in Washington giving voters a chance to throw out the state's seemingly quite successful cap on carbon, which critics blame for high gasoline prices: grist.org/politics/washi… via Kate Yoder

new investigation: dozens of utilities offer homebuilders incentives –including cash and luxury travel – to install gas appliances

trade groups are also training members to sell builders on the continued use of gas, newly revealed recordings show

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What are cities doing to try to get gas out of homes and businesses, following a court ruling striking down Berkeley's ban on gas hookups? Good rundown from Akielly Hu: grist.org/buildings/a-co…

On Grist, Kate Yoder asks why, in the year of our lord 2023, with climate impacts visibly crashing down around us, people still fall for the #climatescam stuff. Unsurprisingly I have a lot to say on the matter but here I'd just share one thought.

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Grist's top 10 climate words of 2023:
• AQI
• Carbon insetting
• Climate quitters
• Deinfluencers
• El Niño
• Global boiling
• Greenhushing
• Noctalgia
• RICO
• White hydrogen

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Very honored to win a SEAL award for my coverage of climate change. Great to see Emily Pontecorvo being recognized too!

Debating a contentious comma late into the night. Nearly derailing the Paris Agreement with a single typo. Don't miss Akielly Hu on why the language of U.N. climate negotiations is so slippery grist.org/cop28/phaseout…

After grist won a hard-fought FOIA appeal, we're releasing data on tribal jail facility locations in the US. To our knowledge, this data has never been made public before, and we hope other journalists can use it to do their own reporting. grist.org/updates/grist-…

🚨Job Alert🚨 grist is now accepting applications for its 2024 fellowship program! This is an amazing, paid, opportunity for underrepresented, early-career journalists with an interest in climate and environmental reporting.

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More info 🧵

Climate change has toppled some civilizations but not others. Why?
The link between environmental disasters and societal collapse, explained.
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I think a lot of our interest in ancient civilizations (à la the 'men thinking about Rome' trend) is driven by: How could something so big and so advanced fail? And could the same thing happen to us?

I explored that question in my latest for grist grist.org/culture/climat…

In today’s Los Angeles Times: My column about a breakthrough deal between the solar industry and environmental groups, which will — hopefully — lead to a lot more clean energy getting built a lot faster: latimes.com/environment/ne…

'The way El Akkad looks at it, cli-fi might not survive much longer simply because climate change will be the backdrop of everything that’s written, fiction or not.'

Want to join the American Climate Corps? Kate Yoder with grist lays out what we know so far about Biden’s new program, which aims to hire 20,000 young people in its first year. grist.org/politics/want-…

What once sounded outlandish, like material for a dystopian novel, is looking more and more like reality. So what is a writer of fiction supposed to do? My latest for grist grist.org/culture/summer…

A few months ago, I read a study that showed schizophrenia can be the most deadly preexisting condition during a heat wave.

I was puzzled: Why would a mental illness make you more vulnerable to heat?

That question led me to a young man named Stephan Goodwin. This is his story🧵