Environment – Miranda Green

The Fake News Pipeline

April 10, 2025April 28, 2025Miranda Green

The secret playbook behind efforts to kill solar in an Ohio county

November 25, 2024April 28, 2025Miranda Green

https://www.kalw.org/show/your-call/2024-11-25/the-secret-playbook-behind-efforts-to-kill-solar-in-an-ohio-county

Utility Regulators Take Millions From Industries They Oversee. What Could Go Wrong?

November 2, 2024December 5, 2024Miranda Green

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 […]

‘Weird’ newspaper shows up in North Dakota mailboxes attacking Dakota Access protests as Greenpeace trial looms

November 1, 2024December 5, 2024Miranda Green

The Koch-linked paper appears in Morton County as residents are set to vote — and to hear the case brought by pipeline owner Energy Transfer The newspaper’s motto reads “Real data. Real value. Real news.” But there is nothing real about it. The Central ND News has many of the hallmarks of a legitimate news […]

Fossil Fuel Interests Are Working to Kill Solar. An Ohio Newspaper Is Helping

October 8, 2024December 5, 2024Miranda Green

Read the story on ProPublica Word tends to spread fast in rural Knox County, Ohio. But misinformation has spread faster. The first article in the Mount Vernon News last fall about a planned solar farm simply noted that residents were “expressing their concern.” But soon the county’s only newspaper was packed with stories about solar […]

BP-owned company is selling carbon credits on trees that aren’t in danger, analysis finds

July 11, 2024December 5, 2024Miranda Green

Satellite analysis looked at credits sold by Finite Carbon, which runs some of North America’s largest offset projects Read at The Guardian Some forest carbon offsets sold by the biggest offsetting company in the US offer little or no benefit to the climate, a satellite analysis has found. Finite Carbon, created in 2009 and bought […]

What Happens When a Powerful Corporation Owns the News?

April 1, 2024April 12, 2024Miranda Green

‘Control the narrative’: how an Alabama utility wields influence by financing news

January 17, 2024March 4, 2025Miranda Green

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 […]

A group is spreading misinformation to stop solar projects in rural America

February 18, 2023November 10, 2023Miranda Green

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 […]

She was an ABC News producer. She also was a corporate operative

December 21, 2022February 23, 2023Miranda Green

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 […]