Scoops – Miranda 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

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 […]

The Time Kimberly Guilfoyle Got COVID-19—and Montana Heard Nothing

October 11, 2020December 28, 2020Miranda Green

Long before the Rose Garden disaster, a fly-fishing campaign trip that featured few masks produced a high-profile COVID-19 case—and some pissed-off residents. When Kimberly Guilfoyle tested positive for COVID-19 before Donald Trump’s July Mount Rushmore speech, it seemed like the result came back just in the nick of time. She and her boyfriend, who happens to be the president’s […]

Federal agency to reopen 53 Native American schools despite coronavirus fears

August 10, 2020January 31, 2021Miranda Green

“Life is what is important right now. I wouldn’t take that risk. I just wouldn’t,” one Bureau of Indian Education educator told the agency in mid-July. The U.S. Department of the Interior – Indian Affairs, which oversees the Bureau of Indian Education, announced last week that it would reopen “brick and mortar schools” under its […]

Indian Affairs Employee Is Interior Department’s First COVID-19 Death

April 29, 2020December 28, 2020Miranda Green

The pandemic has hit Native American communities particularly hard. A Bureau of Indian Affairs employee is the first Interior Department staffer to die from COVID-19, according to internal numbers obtained by HuffPost. The death, reported Tuesday, comes as the number of cases at the Interior Department has continued to increase. The unnamed Bureau of Indian […]

At Least 40 Interior Department Employees Tested Positive For COVID-19

April 14, 2020December 28, 2020Miranda Green

Internal data reviewed by HuffPost reveals how widespread the coronavirus has become within the department. At least 40 employees across the Department of the Interior have tested positive for COVID-19 and are considered contagious, resulting in mandatory employee quarantines, office closures and deep cleanings, according to internal data reviewed by HuffPost. Almost every bureau of […]

Industry Groups Ask California To Delay Pollution Rules, Citing Pandemic

April 7, 2020November 18, 2021Miranda Green

LOS ANGELES — Industry groups are pushing for California regulators to delay new environmental measures, including those meant to promote clean air. Their reason: the economic stress the COVID-19 pandemic is putting on their businesses. Groups have sent at least six letters to California officials in the past two weeks requesting delays or modifications to […]

National Park Staff Revolts, Says Shut Them Down

April 1, 2020December 28, 2020Miranda Green

Major parks remain open. And despite rangers and employees testing positive, the government is encouraging use of the parks as a social-distancing solution. Frustrated by what he considered inadequate answers about why some staff could telework while others had to show up to work, Lyndon B. Johnson Historic Park maintenance worker Trevor Wright took matters […]

EPA delays advisers’ review of ‘secret science’ rules

November 18, 2019December 27, 2020Miranda Green

Read the full story in The Hill» The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has repeatedly rescheduled and delayed a meeting of an advisory board slated to review a controversial proposal that would block the agency from considering studies that don’t make their underlying data public. The rule in question is titled “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science,” […]

Democrats say they’re waiting for nearly 50 requests for Trump info on science, environment

November 2, 2019December 27, 2020Miranda Green

Read the full story in The Hill» Nearly 50 different Democratic requests for documents have been unanswered by departments and agencies that oversee President Trump’s science and environment policies, lawmakers say, underscoring the brick wall the administration has put up against congressional oversight. Democratic lawmakers are expressing anger and frustration with the administration over what they […]