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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Helene and Milton, the two massive hurricanes that just swept into the country — killing hundreds of people, and leaving both devastation and rumblings of political upheaval in seven states — amounted ...

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

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 ...

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

Faced with a future of uncertainty and change, four people share the climate messages they chose to wear forever.