This story is part of State of Emergency, a Grist series exploring how climate disasters are impacting voting and politics.

Election Day in Lake Charles, Louisiana began with heavy rain and tornado warnings. Belts of precipitation traveling up from ...

In a special Election Day edition of State of Emergency, Zoya Teirstein reports from rainy Buncombe County, North Carolina.

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Republican David Valadao has held his blue district by fighting for thirsty farms. With control of Congress on the line, his luck may run out.

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

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Grist series exploring how climate disasters are impacting voting and politics. It is published with support from the CO2 ...

Home insurers have raised premiums after extreme weather events. Now car insurers in the U.S. are doing the same thing.

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

Lead Locally is another organization working to rally the environmental vote, by focusing on building support for down-ballot ...