Aaron Miguel Cantú is a Puffin Foundation Fellow with Type Investigations and a Los Angeles based investigative journalist. His reporting focuses on some of the most pressing issues of our time, including federal prosecutors targeting political protests; the power of the police and their role in society; and the transition away from fossil fuels, with an emphasis on environmental justice. He’s received awards from the Association of Alternative News Media, the ACLU, and the Society of Professional Journalists, and contributed to a book, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States (Haymarket, 2016). He is currently based in Los Angeles.
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Residents challenge regulators’ claims that they can’t account for toxic oil and gas emissions in the San Joaquin Valley.
A patchwork of regulations is out of sync with the urgency of the climate crisis, experts say.
Fossil fuel companies are pushing for investment in emission-reducing technologies critics say are unproven or even harmful.
Three bills may fall victim to a new push for more oil drilling.
The state is in danger of missing its 2030 emission goal, but the oil and gas industry is lobbying against changes.
Lawsuit in Bay Area represents a looming issue for thousands of idled oil and gas wells.
Emails show how the industry weakened emissions legislation and pushed back on cap-and-trade reforms.
Will Democrats stop appointing legislators with fossil fuel investments to key committees in 2022?
Far from breaking with Trump’s civil disorder prosecutions, Biden has doubled down with an expansive view of extremism.
The differences between law enforcement’s responses in 2017 and 2021 are disturbing.