Miranda Green

Power User: Fake newspapers are flooding America

April 18, 2025April 28, 2025Miranda Green

Power User Podcast w/ Taylor Lorenz From Ohio to North Dakota, thousands of people have suddenly gotten brand new newspapers delivered to their doorsteps. At first glance, they look legit. But these newspapers are fake news outlets created by the oil and gas industry to influence public opinion. Top investigative journalist Miranda Green has been […]

The Fake News Pipeline

April 10, 2025April 28, 2025Miranda Green

March 4, 2025March 4, 2025Miranda Green

Miranda Green is an investigative journalist based in Los Angeles who focuses on politics and climate change for national audiences. Previously she was the National Investigative Reporter at Huffpost and the Director of Investigations at Floodlight News, where she oversaw Floodlight’s national investigative team and reported and edited climate focused series. Her interests focus on […]

The secret playbook behind efforts to kill solar in an Ohio county

November 25, 2024April 28, 2025Miranda Green

https://www.kalw.org/show/your-call/2024-11-25/the-secret-playbook-behind-efforts-to-kill-solar-in-an-ohio-county

Utility Regulators Take Millions From Industries They Oversee. What Could Go Wrong?

November 2, 2024December 5, 2024Miranda Green

The clean energy transition, for one, an analysis of campaign finance data reveals. Read on Mother Jones It was 2:30 in the morning on November 6, 2014, when flames engulfed the New Orleans home of political consultant Mario Zervigon. Someone had lit his cars on fire, and the flames spread to his house. Zervigon and his […]

‘Weird’ newspaper shows up in North Dakota mailboxes attacking Dakota Access protests as Greenpeace trial looms

November 1, 2024December 5, 2024Miranda Green

The Koch-linked paper appears in Morton County as residents are set to vote — and to hear the case brought by pipeline owner Energy Transfer The newspaper’s motto reads “Real data. Real value. Real news.” But there is nothing real about it. The Central ND News has many of the hallmarks of a legitimate news […]

Fossil Fuel Interests Are Working to Kill Solar. An Ohio Newspaper Is Helping

October 8, 2024December 5, 2024Miranda Green

Read the story on ProPublica Word tends to spread fast in rural Knox County, Ohio. But misinformation has spread faster. The first article in the Mount Vernon News last fall about a planned solar farm simply noted that residents were “expressing their concern.” But soon the county’s only newspaper was packed with stories about solar […]

BP-owned company is selling carbon credits on trees that aren’t in danger, analysis finds

July 11, 2024December 5, 2024Miranda Green

Satellite analysis looked at credits sold by Finite Carbon, which runs some of North America’s largest offset projects Read at The Guardian Some forest carbon offsets sold by the biggest offsetting company in the US offer little or no benefit to the climate, a satellite analysis has found. Finite Carbon, created in 2009 and bought […]

What Happens When a Powerful Corporation Owns the News?

April 1, 2024April 12, 2024Miranda Green

Chevron owns this city’s news site. Many stories aren’t told

March 28, 2024December 5, 2024Miranda Green

Read this story on NPR RICHMOND, Calif. — Open flames shot upward from four smokestacks at the Chevron refinery on the western edge of Richmond, Calif. Soon, black smoke blanketed the sky. News spread quickly that day last November, but by word of mouth, says Denny Khamphanthong, a 29-year-old Richmond resident. “We don’t know the full […]