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Alejandro de la Garza

Freelance Climate Journalist · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alejandro de la Garza is a climate and technology journalist best known for his coverage of clean energy, electric vehicles, and solar geoengineering ventures like Make Sunsets. His investigative work for TIME on the 2023 East Palestine train derailment received the Society of Environmental Journalists' award for Outstanding Feature Story.

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3 assertions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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What the tape says about how Alejandro argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
De la Garza: No US federal regulation prohibits releasing sulfur balloons
“There's no federal regulation that prohibits someone from putting some of that burned sulfur in a balloon and letting it go.”
Alejandro de la Garza Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 6:46 The Carbon Copy: A rogue geoengineering startup sparks worry

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Assertion Not checkable as stated
De la Garza: Geoengineering researchers universally oppose Make Sunsets launches
“Any single person you talk to in solar geoengineering research, whether they're the most bullish on it or the strongest against it, they all think that what Make Sunset's doing is a bad idea.”
Alejandro de la Garza Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 7:04 The Carbon Copy: A rogue geoengineering startup sparks worry
Insight
De la Garza: Environmental opposition no longer stops rogue geoengineering experiments
“Some kind of critical mass has been reached where two years ago, a strongly worded letter from indigenous groups and Greenpeace and other environmental organizations was enough to dissuade the researchers at the time from Doing this kind of thing from, in that…”
Alejandro de la Garza Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 24:48 The Carbon Copy: A rogue geoengineering startup sparks worry
Assertion Supported
De la Garza: No US federal regulation prohibits releasing sulfur balloons
“There's no federal regulation that prohibits someone from putting some of that burned sulfur in a balloon and letting it go.”
Alejandro de la Garza Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 6:46 The Carbon Copy: A rogue geoengineering startup sparks worry
Assertion Supported
De la Garza: Make Sunsets founder previously led Y Combinator hardware
“Luke Eisman is a serial entrepreneur. He worked at Y Combinator for a while as their head of hardware, director of hardware.”
Alejandro de la Garza Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 10:45 The Carbon Copy: A rogue geoengineering startup sparks worry

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Carbon Copy: A rogue geoengineering startup sparks worry Apr 27, 2023 6m
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