However it is a totally different sort of listing. It’s in regards to the tales we didn’t write however want we had — sharp items from rival shops large and small that uncovered new data, reframed the talk, or have been merely enjoyable to learn.
Listed below are among the tales from final 12 months we want we may declare as our personal. (In a second of meta-jealousy, it bears mentioning that the thought for a “jealousy listing” is borrowed from Bloomberg Businessweek, which has been publishing annual variations since 2015.)
Why don’t we have now photo voltaic panels on each rooftop? Invoice McKibben’s story in Mom Jones exposes the stark distinction between putting in dwelling photo voltaic within the U.S., a course of mired in purple tape, and doing so in Australia, Spain, Germany, and different international locations the place it’s a lot cheaper and simpler. This feisty piece makes you need to slap your brow and ask, “Why can’t we have now good issues, too?” — Alison F. Takemura, reporter
Nantucket native and novelist Gabriella Burnham wrote for The Verge in regards to the fallout from a 2024 incident through which a turbine blade broke off a New England offshore wind mission. With wealthy element and narrative momentum, Burnham’s reporting reveals how wealth and island dynamics turned a excellent storm for renewables pushback. Nowhere else will you examine native dudes making T-shirts that learn “Winery Wind is ISIS,” and nobody however a native author like Burnham may have written a piece like this. — Clare Fieseler, reporter
President Donald Trump has pulled a whole Gretchen Wieners from “Imply Women” this previous 12 months: Identical to she wished to make fetch occur, he’s attempting his darnedest to make the time period “American vitality dominance” stick. However what does it really imply? Grist’s ever-thoughtful Kate Yoder has solutions in a story I want I had written that attracts on specialists, historical past, and good evaluation. — Ysabelle Kempe, affiliate editor
Apparently I let this one linger a little too lengthy on my to-do listing, as a result of VTDigger’s Austyn Gaffney beat me to it — and, together with her in-depth information of Vermont politics, did a higher job than I may have. It’s a fascinating, rigorously reported, and type of horrifying look into how the Koch brothers’ People for Prosperity is organising store in one of many nation’s bluest states, making inroads with its model of clean-energy and local weather disinformation. — Sarah Shemkus, reporter
Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s resolution to droop the state’s first-in-the-nation all-electric buildings regulation had each climate-conscious New Yorker shaking their head and asking “Why?” Colin Kinniburgh of New York Focus offered a solution, albeit not a very satisfying one for anybody who cares about cleaner buildings and a more healthy planet. No matter how you’re feeling in regards to the state’s fixed local weather backtracking, it’s a nice instance of journalism that breaks down the legalese so that you don’t should. — Kathryn Krawczyk, engagement editor
For journalists, there’s at all times a push and pull between overlaying information because it occurs and stepping again to make sense of the headlines. This Reuters investigation on “sustainable aviation fuels” does a wonderful job on the latter, with a data-driven, multimedia strategy. The characteristic reveals that, behind all of the promise of progress, airways and vitality corporations are falling far behind on efforts to convey low-carbon jet gas to the skies. — Maria Gallucci, senior reporter
