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Miranda Green

May 4, 2025August 19, 2025Miranda Green

Miranda Green is an investigative journalist based in Los Angeles who focuses on politics and climate change for national audiences. She is the author of Atmos Magazine’s weekly newsletter, The Understory, and publishes her own climate focused Substack: Evergreen. Previously she was the National Investigative Reporter at Huffpost and the Director of Investigations at Floodlight […]

All That Glitters

April 30, 2025August 19, 2025Miranda Green

His alleged victims say he bribed New York Police Department officials, stole millions in diamonds, and persuaded Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Kim Kardashian to shill for a scam cryptocurrency. So why is Jona Rechnitz still free? It was like something out of a fairy tale—or the Los Angeles society pages. As a crowd of celebrities […]

Chevron owns this city’s news site. Many stories aren’t told

March 28, 2024December 5, 2024Miranda Green

Read this story on NPR 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 […]

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 […]

A California county, despite the state’s climate goals, further embraces fossil fuels

April 10, 2021November 18, 2021Miranda Green

WASCO, Calif. — The long shadows cast here in the San Joaquin Valley come from oil derricks, not palm trees. Two hours inland from the Pacific Ocean, the arid terrain is peppered with petroleum and gas wells. The black gold that lies underground became the region’s lifeblood after it was discovered in 1899, and Kern […]

The Predator in the Lincoln Project

February 12, 2021November 10, 2021Miranda Green

John Weaver used his power to get jobs for young men he allegedly harassed. His colleagues were warned. Alex Johnson was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, pursuing a career in politics, when he first heard from John Weaver, the legendary Republican operative living nearby. It started with a direct message on […]

CNN: Election Comments Won’t do Much Harm

September 29, 2019December 12, 2020Miranda Green

CNN: Democrats Unveil “Green New Deal” To Combat Climate Change

February 4, 2019March 16, 2021Miranda Green

CNN: Green New Deal Resolution Unveiled

February 3, 2019November 10, 2020Miranda Green

‘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 […]