Huffington Post – Miranda Green

Trump Is Targeting Key Environmental Employees Who Help Prosecute Polluters

February 5, 2025August 19, 2025Miranda Green

Friday termination notices, abrupt reassignments and the erasure of key environmental websites put the future of policing polluters in doubt. When Donald Trump was reelected president, civil servants working at the agencies that oversee federal environmental regulations and prosecute corporate polluters anticipated that many things would soon be reversed, just like the last time. When […]

Inside Trump’s Yearslong War With A Fish

January 27, 2025August 19, 2025Miranda Green

Trump’s targeting of the delta smelt is the basis for a misinformation campaign against California. LOS ANGELES — The deadly wildfires in California have taken a lot of Donald Trump’s attention in his first week as president, and although he traveled to Los Angeles to see the damage, his tone in addressing the crisis has […]

Will The LA Fires Reignite Rick Caruso’s Political Ambitions?

January 18, 2025August 19, 2025Miranda Green

The former Republican and mayoral candidate is riling up California’s moderates amid the destruction, but will it work? As houses smoldered and the breadth of destruction from fires that raged through Los Angeles was just beginning to become clear, real estate developer Rick Caruso called into a local Fox station to cast the first stone. […]

Indian Affairs Employee Is Interior Department’s First COVID-19 Death

April 29, 2020December 28, 2020Miranda Green

The pandemic has hit Native American communities particularly hard. A Bureau of Indian Affairs employee is the first Interior Department staffer to die from COVID-19, according to internal numbers obtained by HuffPost. The death, reported Tuesday, comes as the number of cases at the Interior Department has continued to increase. The unnamed Bureau of Indian […]

At Least 40 Interior Department Employees Tested Positive For COVID-19

April 14, 2020December 28, 2020Miranda Green

Internal data reviewed by HuffPost reveals how widespread the coronavirus has become within the department. At least 40 employees across the Department of the Interior have tested positive for COVID-19 and are considered contagious, resulting in mandatory employee quarantines, office closures and deep cleanings, according to internal data reviewed by HuffPost. Almost every bureau of […]

Industry Groups Ask California To Delay Pollution Rules, Citing Pandemic

April 7, 2020November 18, 2021Miranda Green

LOS ANGELES — Industry groups are pushing for California regulators to delay new environmental measures, including those meant to promote clean air. Their reason: the economic stress the COVID-19 pandemic is putting on their businesses. Groups have sent at least six letters to California officials in the past two weeks requesting delays or modifications to […]

‘We Should Have Pushed Harder’: Obama’s Gitmo Czars Reflect On His Failure To Close The Prison

January 19, 2017November 21, 2020Miranda Green

They transferred 201 detainees, but the president didn’t keep his promise to shut down Guantanamo. On his first day in office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order directing that the Guantanamo Bay prison facility “be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from the date of this order.” The prison […]