S6 Bonus: Why Is a California Air Board Funding Natural Gas Expansion?

Drilled

Critical Frequency

True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Floodlight's Miranda Green is back with a new story about the push for natural gas in southern California. This time an air board tasked with cleaning up pollution is giving millions of dollars in grant money to gas projects.

Read the story: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/07/california-air-pollution-natural-gas?CMP=share_btn_tw

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Drilled, I'm Amy Westervelt.
0:14.0	Today we're going to hear from a reporter I had on during our last season, Miranda Green
0:19.2	from Floodlight.
0:20.8	About a news story she's got out right now.
0:23.7	Once again about utilities and air pollution and the push to maintain dominance for natural
0:30.4	gas.
0:31.4	Miranda uncovered recently that a Los Angeles area airboard has spent millions to subsidize
0:37.2	and promote gas.
0:39.6	Despite the fact that as an airboard, it's tasked with cleaning up air pollution, which
0:45.8	gas definitely contributes to.
0:48.3	There's a utility angle here too and lots of interesting details that Miranda will walk
0:53.1	us through.
0:54.8	That conversation is coming up right after this quick break.
1:09.7	Tell me about how this story came about.
1:13.2	Well, Los Angeles, which happens to be where I live, is a community that is known for
1:18.0	a lot of great things.
1:19.1	You know, we have wonderful beaches.
1:21.4	We have great sunshine.
1:22.8	We're the golden state.
1:24.4	When you start looking into the data and the details about the air pollution, you actually
1:30.7	realize that there's some things that are really not that golden about it.
1:34.9	LA actually has the worst small pollution of any city in the United States, which means
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