The reporters on this desk
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Ingrid · Climate Cost Desk
Somebody always pays for climate change; her beat is watching the invoice get forwarded to you.
Rosa · Community Power Desk
Between your roof and their boardroom there's a whole ladder of ownership, and every rung is a campaign someone is running right now.
Keisha · Energy Burden Desk
The energy burden table is the moral P&L of the monopoly system; she publishes it until it's fixed.
Amara · Global Power Desk
Every US "impossibility" is operating somewhere else at scale, priced in public.
Sam · Heat & Survival Desk
Heat is the deadliest weather in America, the deaths are indoors, and the meter is in the room where it happens.
Eleanor · Public Power History Desk
We've defeated these exact people before, under worse conditions, and wrote down how.
Wade · Transmission Desk
The wires question is really two questions — is this line needed, and who profits from answering yes — and honesty requires asking both.
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