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Emily Pontecorvo

Emily Pontecorvo is a contributing writer from Grist.org.

Mexican laborers cut broccoli stalks for Smith Farms' crew A as the harvest season gets underway at a Smith Farm's field near Fort Fairfield in central Aroostook County. Smith Farm's employ over 150 migrant workers to help in their harvest of both broccoli and potatos. (John Ewing/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

USDA to help farmers navigate the murky world of soil carbon offsets

Emily Pontecorvo
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How the natural gas industry cozies up to utility regulators

Emily Pontecorvo
Working oil pumps against a sunset sky (Getty Images/imaginima)

It would take less than 3% of Big Oil’s profits to clean up methane emissions

Emily Pontecorvo
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New York’s new constitutional right to a clean environment faces first judicial test

Emily Pontecorvo
A view of high voltage transmission towers on February 21, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Millions of Texans lost their power when winter storm Uri hit the state and knocked out coal, natural gas and nuclear plants that were unprepared for the freezing temperatures brought on by the storm. Wind turbines that provide an estimated 24 percent of energy to the state became inoperable when they froze. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

How the “electrify everything” movement went mainstream

Emily Pontecorvo
A visual representation of a Bitcoin cryptocurrency as a gold coin on a computer keyboard. (Getty Images)

This New York crypto lawsuit aims to settle a key climate law loophole

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To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians

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Solar panels and wind turbines (Getty Images/zf L)

In Louisiana, an electoral upset could mean a breakthrough for renewables

Emily Pontecorvo, Lylla Younes
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How a new subsidy for ‘green hydrogen’ could set off a carbon bomb

Emily Pontecorvo
Participants in a demonstration at the UN Climate Summit COP27, including Luisa Neubauer (3rd from right), climate activist with the Fridays for Future movement, hold placards and advocate for the 1.5 degree Celsius global temperature rise target. (Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images)

COP27 is over. What did it achieve?

Blanca Begert, Emily Pontecorvo, Naveena Sadasivam
US President Joe Biden delivers a speech during the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly known as COP27, at the Sharm El Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on November 11, 2022. (Mohamed Abdel Hamid/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Biden touts methane crackdown at COP27

Emily Pontecorvo
GREAT YARMOUTH, ENGLAND - JULY 19: The sun starts to rise behind Britain's largest offshore wind farm off the Great Yarmouth coastline on July 19, 2006 in Norfolk, England. The 30 turbines cost GBP75million and can generate enough power for 41,000 homes are seen by supporters as a clean and green way to generate electricity and a way of cutting down on harmful green house gas emmissions. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Will offshore wind bring “good-paying, union jobs”? Texas workers aren’t so sure

Emily Pontecorvo
Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona in the United States, near the town of Page. (Getty Images/Spondylolithesis)

The West’s biggest source of renewable energy depends on water. Will it survive the drought?

Emily Pontecorvo
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Here’s what’s in the Senate’s $369 billion climate and energy bill

Julia Kane, Emily Pontecorvo, Zoya Teirstein
Oil pipelines, pumping rigs, and electrical transmission lines dot the landscape along California's "Petroleum Highway" (Highway 33) running along the northwestern side of the San Joaquin Valley on April 24, 2020, near McKittrick, California. (George Rose/Getty Images)

Will Big Oil face another reckoning from investors this year?

Emily Pontecorvo
Image of carbon capture technology which uses fans and filters to remove the green house gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The big fans suck in air from the atmosphere and take out the green house gas carbon dioxide. This technology can solve the problem of climate change and help with the climate crisis. (iStock/Getty Images/IGphotography)

CO2 pipelines are coming. A pipeline safety expert says we’re not ready

Emily Pontecorvo
Natural gas flame on a stove (Robert Clare/Getty Images)

Your gas stove is warming the climate — even when it’s turned off

Emily Pontecorvo, Zoya Teirstein
Exterior view of a Walmart store (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress via Getty Images)

Why doesn’t every big box store have rooftop solar?

Emily Pontecorvo
The NYCHA Jacob Riis Houses complex of apartments in the East Village neighborhood of New York on Saturday, July 5, 2014. Federal prosecutor Preet Bharara announced that an investigation has been opened into whether there were improprieties in the city's application for federal funds to remediate conditions in NYCHA housing projects. (Richard Levine/Corbis via Getty Images)

How NYC’s public housing authority plans to transform the market for clean heat

Emily Pontecorvo
The US Coast Guard is investigating a broken pipeline to this oil platform, named Elly, that has spewed tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the sea off California. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Spiking gas prices are a preview of an energy transition gone wrong

Emily Pontecorvo
Joaninha Manuel, 9, and her sister Rosita Moises Zacarias, 15, look at their father Francisco Simon in their house destroyed by the cyclone Idai as they go to seep in a shelter in Buzi, Mozambique, on March 22, 2019. (Getty/Yasuyoshi Chiba)

Report: Poor countries need 5 to 10 times more funding to adapt to climate risks they did not create

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Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Getty Images)

Why developing countries say net-zero is ‘against climate justice’

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Why the “Swiss Army knife” of climate solutions is so controversial

Emily Pontecorvo
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the State Dining Room of the White House January 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden delivered remarks on his administration’s COVID-19 response, and signed executive orders and other presidential actions. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Biden may be the first president to take the risks of extreme heat seriously

Emily Pontecorvo
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