So far this season we've focused on the gas industry's most recent fight, electrification.

Remember this is Sue Forester, Vice President of Advocacy and Outreach at the American

Gas Association, a trade group for utilities.

Starting about the industry's recent strategy to stop the wave of local gas bands.

So the idea behind choice is to really get ahead of the localities, the big cities in

counties and say we are allowing our customers the right to be hooked up to any kind of energy

they would like.

So again, preserving energy choice because we're trying to beat counties in localities from

passing bands that then force the hand of governors and state legislators to pass something

nationwide.

Today, an early precursor of that fight that should have been a preview for environmentalist

of what they would be up against.

A fight not about buildings, but about trucks.

At the ports of Los Angeles, among beach, five years ago.

In 2017, the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports basically were aware that the pollution in

the area was getting out of control and they had to do something about it.

And in 2021, reporters from the Los Angeles Times and floodlight, an environmental news

collaborative that partners with local outlets and the Guardian, dug into how the ports made

their decision.

I'm Miranda Greene.

I'm an editor and investigative reporter at floodlight.

I'm Sammy Roth.

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