Author: Miranda Green
Chevron owns this city’s news site. Many stories aren’t told
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 story, but we know […]
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‘Control the narrative’: how an Alabama utility wields influence by financing news
In the more than a decade since Alabama regulators allowed a landfill to take in tons of waste from coal-burning power plants around the US, neighbors in the majority-Black community of Uniontown frequently complain of thick air so pungent it makes their eyes burn. On some days, it can look like an eerily white Christmas in a […]
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Miranda Green
Miranda Green is an investigative journalist based in Los Angeles. She is the Director of Investigations at Floodlight News, where she oversees Floodlight’s national investigative team and reports on climate focused projects. Her current reporting focuses on the intersection of dark money, the fossil fuel industrial complex and the manipulation of news to spread misinformation. […]
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Politicians say this Florida news site lets them buy coverage. Is your state next?
Read the story on NPR Political strategist Eunic Epstein-Ortiz arrived in Florida from New York in 2017 to help a major labor union turn out voters for the following year. She recalls being pleasantly surprised by the positive coverage the campaign received from Florida Politics. The website is Florida’s answer to Politico: It illuminates developments […]
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$100 Million Gone in 27 Minutes
After possibly the most expensive jewelry heist in U.S. history, Brink’s went after the victims. Jean Malki was carefully wrapping up a necklace containing more than 25 carats of fancy yellow diamonds, a rare Australian-mined Lightning Ridge black opal, and a deep-magenta Burmese ruby after a long day of sales at the International Gem & […]
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A group is spreading misinformation to stop solar projects in rural America
Read the story at NPR Roger Houser’s ranching business was getting squeezed. The calves he raises in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley were selling for about the same price they had a few years earlier, while costs for essentials like fuel and fertilizer kept going up. But Houser found another use for his 500 acres. An energy […]
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She was an ABC News producer. She also was a corporate operative
Read the story on NPR Television news producer Kristen Hentschel was doing precisely what journalists should do on a searing hot day in Stuart, Fla., in July 2018: She confronted a politician with unwelcome questions. Microphone and ABC News business card in hand, Hentschel rushed up to a candidate for the Florida House of Representatives […]
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Southeast power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics
Read the story on NPR Terry Dunn couldn’t fathom why Alabama’s residents — among the poorest in the U.S. — pay some of the nation’s most expensive electricity bills. So in 2010, Dunn ran for a seat on the state commission that sets energy prices. He promised to hold a formal rate hearing at which […]
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Leaked: US power companies secretly spending millions to protect profits and fight clean energy
Read the story at The Guardian The CEO of the biggest power company in the US had a problem. A Democratic state senator was proposing a law that could cut into Florida Power & Light’s (FPL) profits. Landlords would be able to sell cheap rooftop solar power directly to their tenants – bypassing FPL and […]
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