Tag: Climate change
Chevron owns this city’s news site. Many stories aren’t told
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 story, but we know […]
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‘Control the narrative’: how an Alabama utility wields influence by financing news
In the more than a decade since Alabama regulators allowed a landfill to take in tons of waste from coal-burning power plants around the US, neighbors in the majority-Black community of Uniontown frequently complain of thick air so pungent it makes their eyes burn. On some days, it can look like an eerily white Christmas in a […]
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A group is spreading misinformation to stop solar projects in rural America
Read the story at NPR Roger Houser’s ranching business was getting squeezed. The calves he raises in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley were selling for about the same price they had a few years earlier, while costs for essentials like fuel and fertilizer kept going up. But Houser found another use for his 500 acres. An energy […]
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She was an ABC News producer. She also was a corporate operative
Read the story on NPR Television news producer Kristen Hentschel was doing precisely what journalists should do on a searing hot day in Stuart, Fla., in July 2018: She confronted a politician with unwelcome questions. Microphone and ABC News business card in hand, Hentschel rushed up to a candidate for the Florida House of Representatives […]
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Southeast power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics
Read the story on NPR Terry Dunn couldn’t fathom why Alabama’s residents — among the poorest in the U.S. — pay some of the nation’s most expensive electricity bills. So in 2010, Dunn ran for a seat on the state commission that sets energy prices. He promised to hold a formal rate hearing at which […]
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Leaked: US power companies secretly spending millions to protect profits and fight clean energy
Read the story at The Guardian The CEO of the biggest power company in the US had a problem. A Democratic state senator was proposing a law that could cut into Florida Power & Light’s (FPL) profits. Landlords would be able to sell cheap rooftop solar power directly to their tenants – bypassing FPL and […]
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Why is eco-conscious California spending millions to support natural gas?
Read the story at The Guardian In the course of an hour, more than a hundred big rig trucks chug through the aptly named city of Commerce. The heavily Latino community in Los Angeles intersects Interstate 710 – the main highway that moves cargo shipments from the nearby ports to their final destinations. Along with the merchandise […]
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Winter gas bill from hell: Oklahomans face paying $1.4bn over snowstorm
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 […]
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Winter gas bill from hell: Oklahomans face paying $1.4bn over snowstorm
Read the story at The Guardian When 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 that his pipes wouldn’t freeze. The 40-year-old Oklahoma City resident even used hair dryers to keep them thawed. […]
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