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Jan 15, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Ilana Berger |Allison Fisher
Right-wing media are trying to delegitimize climate change as a real and growing threat to the West Coast, just as that threat becomes most evident. Several unusual January wildfires have been burning in Los Angeles County since January 7. Despite the clear connection between global warming and the increasingly dry conditions that lead to fire hazards, right-wing media are following their familiar playbook and blaming what they call California’s “failed” policies for the ongoing crisis.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Allison Fisher
Right-wing media are falsely blaming the reports of low water pressure or dry hydrants in Los Angeles on state and local mismanagement – including suggesting that local authorities refused to fill the reservoirs – and conflating the hydrant issue with the false claim that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s water policies are to blame.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Allison Fisher
BILL WEIR (CORRESPONDENT): But Lee Zeldin, like all of these picks, a true loyalist. Of course, voted against the 2020 election certification. Sat with the Trumps in the box many times. Former New York from Long Island, put himself, actually, on climate solutions caucuses and estuary committees because the environment matters very much to folks on Long Island there.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Allison Fisher
On Election Day, Pete Buttigieg appeared on Fox and Friends, where he was asked by co-host Brian Kilmeade: “How much has the EV mandate hurt Kamala Harris' quest to be the next president?”In response, Buttigieg accurately claimed that “the statement that there is an EV mandate is a lie,” concluding, “You admit, right, that you can buy a gas car if you want right now?
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Allison Fisher
Since November 1, CNN’s chief climate correspondent Bill Weir has appeared at least 4 times on the network to discuss the climate stakes in the 2024 election. In reporting what’s on the line this election for the planet, Weir also addressed some common false narratives about climate as a political issue -- that it will hurt the U.S. economy to address climate change and that it is not a priority for voters.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Allison Fisher
Mainstream cable news and broadcast networks undercovered former President Donald Trump’s pledge to cut energy prices by 50% within one year of taking office — a plan experts have noted he would be unlikely to achieve absent a global recession.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Allison Fisher
On October 24, the News Corp.-owned Wall Street Journal published an article under the headline “Fracking Isn’t as Popular (or Important) in Pennsylvania as You Think.” “Politicians—and the press—often act as if support for extracting natural gas from shale is essential to electoral success in the state,” the article notes.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Allison Fisher |Ilana Berger
Referencing a PoliticoPro article, a CNN KFILE reporter suggested in an October 21 post that Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is “walking back her support for fracking” because “a top climate campaign staffer told PoliticoPro notes she's not promoting expanding it and said she didn't promote increased leases for fracking in the Inflation Reduction Act.” Right-wing media figures have latched on to the idea that Harris flipped her position on fracking and no longer supports the...
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Allison Fisher
In the opening minutes of his discussion with Roberts, Gelles outlined Project 2025’s regressive approach to climate change and the environment while framing that approach around the real-world consequences of a warming climate: “It [Project 2025] is quite a radical overhaul of how the federal government would approach things like climate change, the energy transition, and the regulation of pollutants. … It would propose undoing many of the provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Allison Fisher
ABC’s This Week foregrounded an interview with FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell by reporting that “in North Carolina, they are still working to survey the damage and to reach survivors as a wave of misinformation from the former president and his allies hampers the recovery effort.”They added: … “In the wake of Trump's various claims, FEMA launching an anti-rumor tool this week to combat those messages, with local officials calling on people to ignore online falsehoods.
