In an Ohio town, a "retired gas industry executive, a shadowy 'grassroots' group and a controversial media company are spreading misinformation while turning residents against a proposed solar farm — and each other.

The media company, a notorious "pink slime" operator, bought the local newspaper and turned it into a propaganda machine.

https://floodlightnews.org/fossil-fuel-interests-solar-ohio/

Superb reporting from a collaboration including ProPublica, Floodlight, and Tow Center for Digital Journalism.

Fossil fuel interests are working to kill Solar in one Ohio county. The hometown newspaper is helping.

A retired gas industry executive, a shadowy 'grassroots' group and a controversial media company are spreading misinformation while turning residents against a proposed solar farm — and each other

Floodlight

@dangillmor

Sounds like a crazy plotline in an old western TV series...

Tombstone did it...