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Fossil fuel interests are working to kill solar in one Ohio county. The hometown newspaper is helping. A retired gas industry executive, a shadowy 'grassroots' group and a controversial media company are spreading misinformation while turning residents against a …
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Solar for All likely protected from Trump’s roll back of Biden’s IRA
Dec 18, 2024 · Workers install solar panels on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility in Gaithersburg, Md. (Photo courtesy of NIST) It may be too late for Donald Trump to follow through on threats to repeal outgoing President Joe Biden’s Inflation ...
Is US offshore wind dead in the water - Floodlight
May 28, 2024 · Jennifer Scalise, wife of U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., christens the ECO EDISON, the first American-built offshore wind service operations vessel on May 11, 2024 in New Orleans.
Huge gas plant eyed to power mystery $5B Louisiana data center
Nov 15, 2024 · Gulf Coast Huge gas plant eyed to power mystery $5B Louisiana data center. Entergy proposes a new $3.2 billion natural gas plant to run a ‘game changing’ data center in northeast Louisiana; critics question the move
Mission & Model - Floodlight
Our mission Floodlight is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom that investigates the corporations and political interests stalling climate action. Our reporting reveals how the fossil fuel industry hinders climate progress by sowing disinformation with the public and influencing government with political spending, including dark money. You can count on Floodlight to
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Floodlight’s model has shown how journalism can hold the powerful to account and expose the harms of climate change on vulnerable communities. Many of our stories have spurred regulatory and corporate change around the country. Floodlight's authoritative reporting has been cited by numerous local and national outlets, including CNN,
Louisiana could be out billions of dollars if controversial coastal ...
Nov 7, 2024 · Gulf Coast Louisiana could be out billions of dollars if controversial coastal restoration stalls. The feds threaten to withhold $2.2 billion from the massive effort to save and restore the state’s diminishing coastline if leaders don’t act soon.
Utility regulators take millions from industries they oversee. What ...
Nov 2, 2024 · A Floodlight review of campaign donations in nine of the 10 states that elect their public service commissioners found that fossil fuel interests, power companies and related groups have given about $13.5 million to elect their preferred state energy regulators in the past decade — about 35% of all donations $250 and above.
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Fueling Disinformation. Fossil fuel interests are working to kill solar in one Ohio county. The hometown newspaper is helping. A retired gas industry executive, a shadowy 'grassroots' group and a controversial media company are spreading misinformation while turning residents against a proposed solar farm — and each other