Miranda Green is a reporter covering California and the west with an environmental focus
July 2024
Floodlight
BP-owned company is selling carbon credits on trees that aren’t in danger, analysis finds
Satellite analysis looked at credits sold by Finite Carbon, which runs some of North America’s largest offset projects
January 2024
Floodlight
‘Control the narrative’: how an Alabama utility wields influence by financing news
A Floodlight investigation found Alabama Power runs a news service and its foundation bought a Black newspaper. Neither reports on high electric bills or utility-related pollution
July 2022
Floodlight
Leaked: US power companies secretly spending millions to protect profits and fight clean energy
One industry consulting firm has influenced politics across Florida, Alabama and at least six other states
June 2022
Floodlight
Why is eco-conscious California spending millions to support natural gas?
A Los Angeles-area air board faces questions over grant spending amid some of the worst air pollution in the US
January 2022
Floodlight
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
November 2021
Floodlight
The dark secrets behind big oil’s climate pledges
Oil companies and the banks that finance them are making empty promises – and getting credit for them too
August 2021
Floodlight
They fought for clean air. They didn’t know they were part of a gas industry campaign
Residents around the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were paid to show support for natural gas trucks at community hearings
June 2021
This land is your land
Activists fear Biden’s climate pledges are falling apart: ‘We aren’t seeing grit’
America's dirty divide
Can Biden’s Justice40 plan deliver a fairer environment for people of color?