Politically speaking, can you blame them? Exit polls estimate that only 7% of voters listed climate change as the country’s most important issue. This reveals an even less convenient truth: even as ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Burning oil, gas, and coal — literal fossil fuels, made from the compressed ...

While many environmentalists fear that the second Trump administration will hurt climate mitigation efforts at home and abroad, a growing number of conservative-leaning organizations are holding out ...

US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse called on Democrats to stop enabling the fossil fuel industry’s “malevolent propaganda operation.” US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat from Rhode Island, speaks ...

Earlier this month, I traveled to Georgia to explore the political backlash to skyrocketing electricity bills. Across the state, from metro Atlanta to rural communities, I met Georgians frustrated by ...

Advocates from multiple climate and environmental advocacy groups will make calls, unleash advertisements, knock on doors and utilize star power in support of Vice President Harris in the final ...

Faced with a president-elect who has called global warming a “scam,” activists are changing their strategies and pushing a message of hope. By Austyn Gaffney With about a month and a half left until ...

In 2018, hundreds of thousands of protesters joined France's yellow vest movement against French President Emmanuel Macron’s carbon tax hike. (Photo by Christophe Leung / CC BY 2.0) This is your first ...

This is the worst-ever year for climate politics—but the struggle is far from over. Protesters stage a “die-in” during a rally for Climate Justice in Seoul on September 27, 2025. “We are hurtling ...

In an interview with writer Bruce Barron, Katharine Hayhoe, professor of public policy and public law at Texas Tech University and climate ambassador for the World Evangelical Alliance, shares an ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Though it remains unclear how exactly climate will figure into Harris’ agenda, many ...