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Requests for thousands of dollars in sponsorships. A favor for a child’s project. And an ongoing sense of coziness between a company seeking to build a $10 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal and pipeline and the local officials charged with reviewing key permits.

Sharon Kelly revealed this and more in her investigation exposing interactions between Jordan Cove LNG’s backers and Coos County, Oregon, commissioners that could have major implications for the project’s future. Read the newly revealed emails in her full report.

Also on the West Coast this week, California communities were in court arguing that their cases against fossil fuel companies for local climate damages are based on the companies’ alleged campaigns of deception and delay around climate science, despite knowing the consequences of continuing to burn their products.