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A paper is accused of tainting the jury ahead of Greenpeace’s $300m trial
Though Central ND News promises to “fill the void in community news after years of decline in local reporting by legacy media” with “100% original reporting,” no staff are listed on the site and few stories have bylines. Last fall residents of Mandan, North Dakota woke up to an unfamiliar newspaper at their doorsteps. The […]
Continue ReadingTrump Is Targeting Key Environmental Employees Who Help Prosecute Polluters
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 […]
Continue ReadingInside Trump’s Yearslong War With A Fish
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 […]
Continue ReadingWill The LA Fires Reignite Rick Caruso’s Political Ambitions?
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. […]
Continue ReadingThe playbook behind efforts to kill solar in an Ohio county
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Continue ReadingUtility Regulators Take Millions From Industries They Oversee. What Could Go Wrong?
The clean energy transition, for one, an analysis of campaign finance data reveals. Read on Mother Jones It was 2:30 in the morning on November 6, 2014, when flames engulfed the New Orleans home of political consultant Mario Zervigon. Someone had lit his cars on fire, and the flames spread to his house. Zervigon and his […]
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