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Winter gas bill from hell: Oklahomans face paying $1.4bn over snowstorm

January 19, 2022April 4, 2022Miranda Green

Customers saddled with paying 600 times the usual price for energy as regulators are accused of being too close to the industry they monitor hen Neil Crittenden heard that an extreme winter storm was about to hit Oklahoma last winter, he did what officials advised him to do and kept his heat on and water running so […]

The dark secrets behind big oil’s climate pledges

November 4, 2021April 4, 2022Miranda Green

Oil companies and the banks that finance them are making empty promises – and getting credit for them too JPMorgan Chase won glowing headlines last year when the global investment bank unveiled a commitment to counter the climate crisis. The press amplified JPMorgan’s message – sometimes in JPMorgan’s own words. Fortune published a commentary article […]

Ryan Zinke is Running for Office Again in Montana. On Instagram, He’s Often in Santa Barbara.

October 8, 2021November 18, 2021Miranda Green

Donald Trump’s scandal-plagued first Interior secretary has a good shot at winning Montana’s new House seat. But his opponents have seized on a weak point. WHITEFISH, Mont. — Ryan Zinke likes to tout his fifth-generation Montana roots. On his first day as Donald Trump’s Interior secretary, in 2017, the tall, boot-clad ex-Navy Seal famously galloped to […]

Climate change and drought threaten a way of life for Arizona farmers

September 16, 2021November 18, 2021Miranda Green

Nancy Caywood recalls the days when the white tufts on the cotton plants on her family’s 255-acre farm popped out against the stark blue desert sky, and their alfalfa fields were a sea of green yielding eight to 10 cuttings a year. “To walk out and smell the fresh hay, there’s nothing like it,” the […]

They fought for clean air. They didn’t know they were part of a gas industry campaign

August 16, 2021November 18, 2021Miranda Green

Diesel truck pollution from the busiest port complex in the United States has fouled the air in nearby neighborhoods in Southern California for decades. So when port officials asked for feedback on cleaning up that pollution, hundreds of people weighed in. Los Angeles and Long Beach officials hoped residents would help them decide whether to […]

Activists fear Biden’s climate pledges are falling apart: ‘We aren’t seeing grit’

June 22, 2021April 4, 2022Miranda Green

The president took swift action upon entering the White House, but recent developments raise concern his agenda has stalled On his first day at the White House, Joe Biden earned praise for following through on several campaign promises, committing the US to strict climate goals and a greener future. Now, nearly six months into his […]

Can Biden’s Justice40 plan deliver a fairer environment for people of color?

June 2, 2021April 4, 2022Miranda Green

Administration is pledging to route 40% of the benefits of climate and environment spending to disadvantaged communities, but getting it right will be difficult Indigenous farmers in the Isleta Pueblo, south of Albuquerque, New Mexico, have long relied on crops of corn and green chiles fed by the Rio Grande river, but amid a water […]