# Miranda Green of Atmos on disappearing climate data, how it's impacting journalists & their ability to tell important stories, and what we can do about it

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Published: 2026-01-20T20:52:00+00:00
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In Episode 338, Kestrel welcomes Miranda Green, an investigative journalist focused on politics and climate change, to the show. As the author of Atmos Magazine's weekly newsletter, The Understory , Miranda takes a weekly look behind the climate headlines to question how decisions are made, why they matter, and what they reveal about this moment. "I think data to me is, they're facts. It's hard facts. It's looking at points that have been, you know, they're determined by scientists. They've been measured. They are proven points that then, I can use as building blocks to tell my story." -Miranda THEME — DATA & FASHION: METHODS & ACCESS This week, we're taking a bit of a pulled back lens, exploring data amidst the current volatile political landscape, with a focus on climate data. Also, to note, this episode was recorded in December of 2025 – as things are changing so rapidly in these times, I want to clarify that detail. We are in this period of so-called misinformation and an era in which DATA MANIPULATION, as this week's guest articulates, is very real. But it's not only the way the data is being adjusted to fit the user's agenda - there's also the reality that scientifically-backed data is disappearing. The article that led me to this week's guest is called – "Big Gov Wants To Take Away Your Climate Data" (link below) and in it, she talks about how she always anticipated when the EPA would release its annual tally of corporate polluters and the fines they would have to pay when the pollution was too high. BUT, under Trump, these corporations are no longer required to report their emissions. And that means we don't know what the baseline is for these big polluters, moving forward – we no longer have the comparison data. This is just one blip in the labyrinth of climat…

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