Author: Miranda Green
Don’t Worry About Supermarket Shelves. Worry About Farmers.
The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on milk sales, the seasonal labor force, restaurant contracts, and more. For longtime central Michigan farmer Bob Thompson, the coronavirus comes at a particularly bad moment. “It has been a tumultuous period these four or five years in agriculture. It has pushed many smaller farmers to the brink of […]
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National Parks May No Longer Be ‘Social Distance’ Solution
The Interior Department is leaving it up to individual parks whether they close. While some may have hoped to escape there for fresh air, the momentum is headed toward closings. It is whispered behind the ever closing walls of city apartments and texted about in anxiety-riddled group chats—perhaps if things got really bad in the […]
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Know the facts about alcohol and climate change
If you did dry January this year, you probably reduced your carbon footprint without knowing it. That’s because alcohol production and distribution can be quite energy intensive. So, what if you want to reduce your environmental footprint but you’re not quite ready to hop on the wagon and stay there? Whatever your poison, one of […]
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How Ditching the Iowa Caucus Could Remake the Biofuels Debate
If politicians no longer coveted that early “Iowa bump,” would they still feel compelled to support ethanol subsidies? In the wake of Iowa’s caucus vote-counting disaster, political staffers and pollsters alike are reconsidering the state’s “first in the nation to vote” status. The quaint caucuses and infamous fry-forward state fair could disappear were Iowa to […]
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Kobe Bryant, 13-year-old daughter killed in helicopter crash
LOS ANGELES — Basketball lost one of its greatest competitors and most accomplished players Sunday when Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash in California. The five-time NBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist was 41. Bryant was riding in an S-76 helicopter Sunday when it crashed just before 10 a.m. […]
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Lawyers allege California scuba boat fire that killed 34 was result of safety violations, charging station
LOS ANGELES — Owners of a scuba-diving boat that caught fire off California’s Channel Islands last summer, trapping passengers below deck and killing 34 people, failed to follow mandated safety protocols and did not provide adequate charging procedures for electronic equipment, which likely caused the blaze, according to new legal claims on behalf of four […]
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After being buried by mudslides, two communities chart very different recoveries
LA CONCHITA, Calif. — In the surfer’s paradise where Mike Bell has lived for four decades, talking about rain is blasphemy. “We have sprinkles, we have showers, we have mist, but we don’t use the ‘r’ word, because the ‘r’ word is what kills people,” he says. Fifteen years ago, after 18 inches of it […]
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About Miranda Green
Miranda Green is a freelance copy professional, story/content creator and journalist based in Los Angeles available for hire. With eight years of professional experience writing for big name national brands including CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post, Miranda’s refined writing, editing, research and audience development skills will be a great asset for […]
Continue ReadingEPA delays advisers’ review of ‘secret science’ rules
Read the full story in The Hill» The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has repeatedly rescheduled and delayed a meeting of an advisory board slated to review a controversial proposal that would block the agency from considering studies that don’t make their underlying data public. The rule in question is titled “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science,” […]
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