AI’S Energy Reckoning Has Arrived Americans got a collective reality check last year when electric bills soared across the United States. Those rates are still climbing, and a central culprit is what’s driving AI, cloud storage and crypto mining: data centers.

After three years, the FBI arrested 7 men responsible for the largest jewelry heist in US history. But in the months leading up to a trial, we are now learning that ICE agents deported a key suspect to Ecuador—he faced up to 15 years in prison. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Oil and gas companies are sitting on nearly 9,000 approved but unused drilling permits on U.S. federal lands, while the Trump administration invades Venezuela on their behalf. www.landdesk.org/p/data-dump-... via @landdesk.bsky.social

In Venezuela, The US just bet on the world’s dirtiest oil atmos.earth/political-la...

Can’t tell you how weird it was to wake up in the Caribbean today to the Venezuelan news just to the south. All planes in and out of the region have been cancelled today. Total chaos

I’m on the tarmac in DC about to take off for Puerto Rico and we are being told there’s a hold on all air traffic flying to the Caribbean, due to activity “likely a rocket” Venezuela is due south. Apparently all planes flying to that region are being delayed 3 hrs and re-routed.

Great reporting by @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @emorwee.bsky.social probing at why so many celebrity chefs keep defending non-stick pans made with toxic PFAS, given everything we've learned about these "forever chemicals." atmos.earth/political-la...

A bunch of famous chefs convinced Gavin Newsom to veto a bill banning nonstick pans with PFAS "forever chemicals." Turns out all the chefs had financial relationships with companies producing and selling the pans: heated.world/p/why-are-fa... via @emorwee.bsky.social @mirandagreen.bsky.social

CA was expected to ban PFAS from pans in Sept, until Gov. Newsom vetoed the bill. It was thanks to a last minute push by 7 celebrity chefs, who said that banning Teflon would be too expensive What they didn't disclose, is they all make $ from Teflon W/ @emorwee.bsky.social @atmosmag.bsky.social

Famous chefs and food TV show hosts, like Rachael Ray and David Chang, went to bat on behalf of a cooking pan lobbying group to defend forever chemicals atmos.earth/political-la... via @mirandagreen.bsky.social

Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans. New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:

What strikes me from Ryan Lizza’s piece is the age gap shaming he implies on all of Nuzzi’s exs but tellingly not on himself— a man 19 years older who was married when they met when she was in her early 20s.

this has really gotten buried, but the president called a reporter "piggy" for asking a question about Epstein files people.com/donald-trump...

Environmentalists have struggled for years to connect the public’s concern about climate change with the ballot box. But Tuesday’s elections indicate candidates have found a new way to win on the economy: by reframing clean energy as the cheaper, fairer choice.

First dispatch includes a recent wildfire burn scar — and a long detour around the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, closed after another recent fire: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

California farm lobby once again killed a bill to make it easier for agricultural landowners to replace crops in water-stressed areas with solar projects. Gavin Newsom's office had "concerns" with the bill, per the author, @buffywicks.bsky.social. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

Does it feel like all of a sudden the Trump administration is throwing its full weight against off-shore wind? Well it is. And--as with many things when it comes to Trump--it started with a vendetta. 🧵

Some News! I'm writing a weekly newsletter for @atmosmag.bsky.social focused on putting climate policy and environmental news into context. It's called The Understory.

His alleged victims say he bribed NYPD officials, stole millions in diamonds, & persuaded Floyd Mayweather Jr. & Kim Kardashian to shill for a scam cryptocurrency. So why is Jona Rechnitz still free? [ @mirandagreen.bsky.social @atavist.com @longreads.com ] longreads.com/2025/05/01/b...

The series I wrote for Floodlight earned the National Press Club’s Arthur E. Rowse Award for Examining the News Media Judges praised it for “its high-quality reporting, its narrative strength, and its ability to surface an urgent yet little-known issue” www.press.org/newsroom/ap-...

After building a career working hard hitting, and sometimes emotional draining stories, it’s been so nice to write for the BBC about environmental solutions. This one was a fun one close to home And love seeing it on the homepage! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

My first story for The BBC, reporting on a topic close to home—literally— how Montecito, CA rebuilt after a deadly mudslide and came together to be resilient in the face of future storms www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Outside Dodger Stadium earlier today, now this

So it seems @mirandagreen.bsky.social and I are destined to get each others emails for eternity - still going on! - I salute my Stateside doppelganger's work - and on it goes *waves across the Atlantic* 👋 www.ft.com/content/2cb4...

I've read so many profiles of white women scam artists that it's nice to mix it up for a change, and is always the case with @atavist.com this is a meticulous and killer read. Great work fro, @mirandagreen.bsky.social

Wildfire smoke attributable specifically to climate change helped kill an estimated 15,000 people in the United States from 2006 to 2020, new study finds: apnews.com/article/wild...

UPDATE: As of Saturday, the scoreboard clock at the San Francisco Giants’ Oracle Park is an ad for 76 gasoline, as seen on the stadium’s Instagram account. The 76 logo wasn’t there on Thursday.

The new issue from our sister publication, @atavist.com, is here! Read an excerpt of ALL THAT GLITTERS, a big story about NYPD corruption, diamonds, a crypto scam, and more. By @mirandagreen.bsky.social: longreads.com/2025/05/01/b...

New @atavist.com story from investigative powerhouse @mirandagreen.bsky.social! His alleged victims say he bribed NYPD officials, stole millions in diamonds, and persuaded Kim Kardashian to shill for a scam cryptocurrency. So why is Jona Rechnitz still free? magazine.atavist.com/all-that-gli...

[Stefan voice] This one has it all: NYPD corruption, Floyd Mayweather Jr., diamonds, Kim Kardashian, crypto, alleged Ponzi schemes, an enormous house with an in-ground trampoline. Issue no. 162 from @mirandagreen.bsky.social, ALL THAT GLITTERS, is here. magazine.atavist.com/all-that-gli...

The lengths people (allegedly) go to in order to lift a shadow ban on Twitter magazine.atavist.com/all-that-gli... via @mirandagreen.bsky.social

I'm excited to finally share an investigation I've been working on for over a year. It's a piece that started in New York's diamond district, took me to the heart of celebrity in Beverly Hills and taught me a lot about the legal system and crypto in Miami. I hope you enjoy

. @mirandagreen.bsky.social received an honorable mention for her work published in @floodlightnews.org, examining how Alabama’s largest electric utility infiltrated local media by financing a news service and buying an African-American newspaper, thereby limiting critical news coverage.

Highly relevant to current events. More on @mirandagreen.bsky.social research into pink slime + jury tampering in @niemanlab.org article last month. www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/a-pi... See (hear👂) also her conversation with @sammyroth.bsky.social on Boiling Point. open.spotify.com/episode/0BYZ...

Inside the failed strategy of a middleman group hired by Dems to get more air time with influencers. Great @taylorlorenz.bsky.social get www.usermag.co/p/inside-the...

Top investigative journalist Miranda Green has been uncovering these oil and gas-backed news outlets and websites. She joins me to talk about how these shady publications are mimicking legitimate local newspapers to spread propaganda and influence public opinion... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nUK...

Proud to get honorable mention for the National Press Foundation’s Stokes Award for Energy and Environment Writing.

Miranda's one of the best investigative climate journalists out there. Learned so much talking with her about fossil fuel companies and fake news!

It was great joining @sammyroth.bsky.social on the LA Times’ Boiling Point podcast this week to talk about the recent Greenpeace trial and the fake newspapers that showed up on the eve of jury picking open.spotify.com/episode/0BYZ...

Last fall a newspaper started showing up at the homes of residents in a small North Dakota town. Its tagline was "Real data. Real value. Real news." But it wasn't any of those things. Now @Greenpeace is accusing it of tainting the jury pool during a $300m trial 🧵

story about Central ND News by @mirandagreen.bsky.social. previously @neeldhan.bsky.social interviewed Miranda and @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about local newspapers where “stories are told — but with an agenda." www.niemanlab.org/2024/05/how-...

Didn't have enough characters, but credit for this story to @mirandagreen.bsky.social!

Big court win: judge rules Exxon, Shell, Chevron, BP and others must face claims by Puerto Rican towns in a RICO case alleging the companies engaged in a coordinated, decades-long deception campaign to conceal the true dangers of fossil fuel consumption. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

A month ago was my 1st day @HuffPost as National Investigative Reporter, what I thought was a new chapter for me Today I was laid off, as part of cuts they announced 3 hrs into my first day I was just gearing up to dig into 3 investigations. If your newsroom is hiring reach out

Trump is targeting key environmental employees who help prosecute polluters The moves include: -Termination notices sent Fri for a DOJ office that helps bring suits against polluters -Abrupt reassignments of an enviro dept's leaders -The erasure of Environmental Justice sites

NEW: OPM memo sent to all federal workers this evening highlights four pillars of a "reformed" workforce. It promises physical relocations "for a number of" workers, increases to the size of military, furloughs to agencies & insists on "excellence" for those who stay

My deeply reported story about the five-years-later impact of Trump gutting two research agencies got BURIED in all the news yesterday. Please read and share it!

It feels like we’re on a hamster wheel

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:

The mass email sent to federal employees announcing buyouts used the subject line “Fork in the Road”