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Emily Pontecorvo

Emily is a founding staff writer at Heatmap. Previously she was a staff writer at the nonprofit climate journalism outlet Grist, where she covered all aspects of decarbonization, from clean energy to electrified buildings to carbon dioxide removal.

Climate

Trump’s Big EPA Reversal Could Have a Strange Twist for California

Without the endangerment finding on greenhouse gases, the state could have a case for re-imposing its own greenhouse limits on auto emissions.

Emily Pontecorvo

Politics

Trump’s Forgotten Funding Freeze

More than $760 million from the Inflation Reduction Act’s Green and Resilient Retrofit Program is still caught in legal limbo — but no one seems to have noticed.

Emily Pontecorvo

Climate

The EPA Says Carbon Pollution Isn’t Dangerous. What Comes Next?

A conversation with Harvard Law School’s Jody Freeman about life after the endangerment finding.

Emily Pontecorvo

Energy

How Newton, Massachusetts Got National Grid to Bend on Electrification

It took a lot of scrutiny and a lot of patience, but the city council is finally making progress against natural gas infrastructure.

Emily Pontecorvo