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By Terry L. Jones/Floodlight. 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.
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Utility regulators take millions from industries they oversee. What ...
Nov 2, 2024 · A new Floodlight analysis of campaign finance data in nine of the 10 states that elect their commissioners found that more than a third of their contributions of $250 and up are from fossil fuel and electric utility interests — more than $13.5 million in all. The analysis covered contributions to the 54 commissioners elected in the 10 years ...
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Impact. 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 ...
Private calls and campaign cash: Louisiana regulators’ ties to the ...
Nov 3, 2024 · The amount of energy from solar, wind, hydropower and biomass is so low that industrial users this year convinced the PSC to let them build their own renewable energy generation to help power their operations.. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when nearly 900,000 Louisiana customers were out of power — some for weeks — community advocates pressed for rooftop solar, which allowed residents ...
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
Louisiana could be out billions of dollars if controversial coastal ...
Nov 7, 2024 · Louisiana’s ambitious plan to save and restore its coastline is stalled amid lawsuits seeking to halt the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project. But federal officials warn the state could lose more than $2 billion if it does not commit to finishing the project. (Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority)
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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.
Nuclear power could solve US electricity needs. But at what cost?
Oct 14, 2024 · The rising costs of what was supposed to be the first commercial SMR in the United States led startup NuScale and Utah Municipal Power Systems to squash its project roughly a year ago. Estimated costs went from $5.3 billion to $9.3 billion after construction costs jumped 75% from their original price tag.
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Floodlight reporters work from around the country, with one exception. Our Gulf Coast project is an ongoing body of journalism produced by Floodlight’s two Louisiana reporters in Baton Rouge and New Orleans and other regional partners. The following are special series published by Floodlight and its partners. Fueling Disinformation