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Using FOIA requests and hidden-camera videos, the groups targeted universities, leading to the firing of faculty and staff. In February of 2025, as college students across the country settled into their spring semesters, administrators at four major public universities in the Midwest received public records requests about their policies on diversity, equity, and inclusion, or […]
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Miranda Green is an award-winning investigative journalist, editor and podcast host based in Los Angeles whose work focuses on climate change, politics, corporate power and misinformation. She is the host of Boiling Point, the Los Angeles Times Studios podcast that walks listeners through the climate challenges and solutions facing our natural world. She is the […]
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Matt speaks with award-winning investigative journalist Miranda Green about the fossil fuel dimensions of the U.S.-Iran conflict. Miranda – author of The Understory, Atmos Magazine’s weekly climate-culture newsletter – traces how the conflict has disrupted roughly 20% of the world’s liquid natural gas and oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, sent gas prices surging […]
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Metric Media filed more than nine thousand public records requests last year. It used the data to target Democratic politicians and private citizens. Two days after the 2024 elections, Metric Media, the online publishing company, started filing thousands of public records requests. Metric, which operates a network of nearly twelve hundred news sites, sent letters […]
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In Episode 338, Kestrel welcomes Miranda Green, an investigative journalist focused on politics and climate change, to the show. As the author of Atmos Magazine’s weekly newsletter, The Understory, Miranda takes a weekly look behind the climate headlines to question how decisions are made, why they matter, and what they reveal about this moment.
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California nearly triggered a seismic shift in American kitchens this fall. A bill phasing out the sale of nonstick pans made with polytetrafluoroethylene—a type of PFAS “forever chemical”—cleared the state legislature in September with overwhelming support. Given the well-documented health risks associated with production of PTFE, commonly known as Teflon, advocates fully expected Gov. Gavin Newsom […]
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Each week, award-winning climate journalist Miranda Green offers a look beneath the climate headlines—into how decisions are being made, why they matter, and what they reveal about this moment. Subscribe to The Understory to never miss an edition. As world leaders gather in Belem, Brazil, for the 30th Conference of the Parties to discuss our collective climate future, […]
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The award-winning journalist investigates the people, choices, and backstories behind today’s climate headlines. On the heels of last year’s presidential election, an invigorated Donald Trump promised to enact sweeping industry deregulation and roll back hard-won climate initiatives. In response, Atmos conceived of a new newsletter that would contextualize climate policy under the incoming administration with insights to […]
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Sweltering summers are making an AC a lifesaving device. But despite the heatwaves, millions of Americans simply can’t afford it. The heat in swampy New Orleans, Louisiana is so pervasive that locals say the weather is a mix of mostly summer with other seasons scattered in. Jeffrey Elder, medical director for emergency management at University […]
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In the wake of January’s deadly wildfires, Los Angeles County leaders are weighing a disaster registry intended to help disabled and senior residents get connected to emergency responders to bring them to safety during disasters. County supervisors approved a feasibility study this spring for such a voluntary database. Supporters applauded the effort to give more notice and […]
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