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Maddie Stone

Maddie Stone is a contributing writer from Grist.org.

A mechanic works on a battery module of an electric car, at the Revolte e-garage specialized in the electric car repairs, in Carquefou, western France, on November 30, 2022. (LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)

EV battery repair is dangerous. Here’s why mechanics want to do it anyway

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Using a hydraulic hammer, miners mine roof slate in an underground pit (Thomas Frey/picture alliance via Getty Images)

A government program hopes to find critical minerals right beneath our feet

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How Big Tech rewrote the nation’s first cell phone repair law

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Cars on the lot at Savage 61 Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Dealership on Route 61 in Muhlenberg Township, PA Wednesday afternoon April 1, 2020 (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle/Getty Images)

A Massachusetts law protects the right to repair your own car. Automakers are suing

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People wait to enter an Apple store on March 10, 2021, in New York. (John Smith/VIEWpress/Getty Images)

Apple just launched its first self-repair program. Other tech companies are about to follow

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Electric vehicles are displayed before a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the American Jobs Plan and to highlight electric vehicles at Union Station near Capitol Hill on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

European electric car makers have a Russian nickel problem

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Firefighters push down a wall while battling against a burning apartment complex in Paradise, north of Sacramento, California on November 09, 2018 (Getty/Josh Edelson)

Can burying power lines prevent California’s next big wildfire?

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Old computer hard drives await shipment for metal recovery at a recycling facility. (David Friedman/Getty Images)

Can you recycle a hard drive? Google is quietly trying to find out

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The body of a VW ID.3 hangs on a production line during a press tour of Volkswagen's Transparent Factory. At the site in Dresden, 35 fully electric vehicles are produced every day. (Effect due to long exposure) (Sebastian Kahnert/picture alliance via Getty Images)

The U.S. wants to make EV batteries without these foreign metals. Should it?

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Apple finally admits its products are difficult to repair

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People walk by yachts moored at the Hercules Port in Monaco on September 25, 2019 during the 28th edition of the International Monaco Yacht Show. - The Monaco Yacht Show is considered the most prestigious pleasure boat show in the world with the exhibition of 500 major companies in luxury yachting and featuring over a hundred super and megayachts. (VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images)

Cutting your carbon footprint matters a lot — if you’re rich

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Thacker Pass (U.S. Bureau of Land Management)

A showdown in Nevada could determine the future of electric vehicles in the U.S.

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Solar panels are starting to die. What will we do with the megatons of toxic trash?

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FILE - This July 3, 2014, file photo shows the Microsoft Corp. logo outside the Microsoft Visitor Center in Redmond, Wash. In a ruling released Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, a federal judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Microsoft that claims a law that prohibits technology companies from telling customers when the government demands their electronic data is unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) (AP)

Microsoft’s ambitious climate goal forgets about its oil contracts

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces the co-founding of The Climate Pledge at the National Press Club on September 19, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Amazon)

Jeff Bezos is pushing online grocery shopping as better for the planet. Is he right?

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This photo taken on Monday, July 29, 2019 and released by Press Service of the Ministry of Forestry of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, shows an air view of a forest fire in the Boguchansk district of the Krasnoyarsk region, Russia Far East. (Maria Khlystunova, Press Service of the Ministry of Forestry of the Krasnoyarsk Territory via AP)

Arctic wildfires are releasing as much carbon as Belgium did last year

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