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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23d

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...

POLITICO Pro: Solar-on-farms proposal stalls amid farming divide

Assemblymember Buffy Wicks moved her bill to the inactive file in the early hours of Saturday.

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Miranda Green @mirandagreen.bsky.social · 27d

Aaron I’m so sad to see this but so glad your kid is ok.

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Miranda Green @mirandagreen.bsky.social · 28d

Hi, wrong Miranda Green! I cover us politics!

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Miranda Green @mirandagreen.bsky.social · Sep 8

You can read more about these threads, what dog whistles to look out for and why it's happening now in my most recent newsletter The Understory, at @atmosmag.bsky.social

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https://atmos.earth/trumps-blockage-of-offshore-wind-was-years-in-the-making/

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Miranda Green @mirandagreen.bsky.social · Sep 8

Wind criticisms have since coalesced around a strikingly similar playbook, sowing doubt and providing kindling for skeptics.

Have you heard about right whale die offs tied to wind?-- there's no scientific evidence.

How about wind posing a nat sec risk?

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Miranda Green @mirandagreen.bsky.social · Sep 8

What's important to follow here, is the why and how these agencies are attacking off-shore wind.

The WHY is that plainly, wind is bad for the gas industry.

And the gas industry has been a heavy-handed donor to Trump

The HOW is in part, misinformation.

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Miranda Green @mirandagreen.bsky.social · Sep 8

Interesting timing right?

Well, turns out, it was VERY coordinated.

The WH ordered six agencies to escalate the fight against offshore wind--HHS, DOD, DOE, EPA, Interior and Commerce.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/climate/trump-administration-offshore-wind.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Miranda Green @mirandagreen.bsky.social · Sep 8

Three days later, the head of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced it was halting work on a Rhode Island offshore wind project that was 80% complete.

A week afterwards Transportation Sec Sean Duffy withdrew $679 million in grants earmarked for 12 other wind projects

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Miranda Green @mirandagreen.bsky.social · Sep 8

He lost his legal battle. The Scottish wind project was completed in 2018 and is expected to produce more than 70% of Aberdeen’s domestic electricity needs.

But Trump’s ire toward the towering turbines festered, following him the WH.

In August he lashed out on Truth Social.

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Miranda Green @mirandagreen.bsky.social · Sep 8

3 years before Trump would win his first election, he furiously penned at least 16 separate letters in green ink decrying what he argued would be an eyesore and waste of money: offshore wind.

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Miranda Green @mirandagreen.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

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Miranda Green @mirandagreen.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Miranda Green @mirandagreen.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

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Greg Donovan @gregsdonovan.bsky.social · Jul 16

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 ]
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How to Scam Like a Celebrity - Longreads

"His alleged victims say he bribed New York Police Department officials, stole millions in diamonds, and persuaded Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Kim Kardashian to shill for a scam cryptocurrency. So why is...

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Miranda Green @mirandagreen.bsky.social · Jul 10

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”

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The Associated Press, Bloomberg News, Wall Street Journal win awards in National Press Club journalism contest

WASHINGTON, July 9, 2025 -- National Press Club President Mike Balsamo today announced the 2025 winners of the prestigious National Press Club Journalism Awards. This year’s honorees include news outl...

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Miranda Green @mirandagreen.bsky.social · Jul 10

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!

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Miranda Green @mirandagreen.bsky.social · Jun 24

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

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'It was a near-death experience': How a California town blocked dangerous mudflows

Montecito suffered a devastating mudslide in 2018. Now the community has rallied to try to make sure the same thing will never happen again.

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Miranda Green @mirandagreen.bsky.social · Jun 20

Outside Dodger Stadium earlier today, now this

Albert Samaha @samaha.bsky.social · Jun 19

DHS agents at the Rose Bowl shuttle bus stop before the PSG-Botafogo Club World Cup game

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Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social · Jun 5

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...

So which Miranda are you, again?

What happens when you finally face your doppelgänger

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · May 5

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

All That Glitters

His alleged victims say he bribed New York Police Department officials, stole millions in diamonds, and persuaded Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Kim Kardashian to shill for a scam cryptocurrency. So why is ...

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · May 9

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...

Smoke from climate-fueled wildfires contributed to thousands of US deaths over 15 years, study says

A new study out in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment finds that wildfires fueled by climate change are linked to as many as thousands of annual deaths and billions of dollars i...

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · May 5

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.

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Longreads @longreads.com · May 1

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...

How to Scam Like a Celebrity - Longreads

"His alleged victims say he bribed New York Police Department officials, stole millions in diamonds, and persuaded Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Kim Kardashian to shill for a scam cryptocurrency. So why is...

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Seyward Darby @seywarddarby.bsky.social · Apr 30

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?

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All That Glitters

His alleged victims say he bribed New York Police Department officials, stole millions in diamonds, and persuaded Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Kim Kardashian to shill for a scam cryptocurrency. So why is ...

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The Atavist Magazine @atavist.com · Apr 30

[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.

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All That Glitters

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