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Alexandria Herr

Independent Journalist & Audio Producer · 5 appearances on the record.

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Alexandria Herr reports on climate change, energy transition, and environmental justice, with work published in Grist, The Guardian, and The Washington Post. She previously led production on the podcast The Carbon Copy at Post Script Media and conducted research at Rewiring America.

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12 supported 2 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 16 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 15 assertions · 1 opinion · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 16 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 15 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.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Alexandria 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
Herr: Over 1,700 Pregnancy-Related Arrests and Prosecutions Documented Since Roe
“Ever since the Roe v. Wade decision, there have been over 1700 documented arrests and prosecutions related to pregnancy outcomes, and that includes stillbirth.”
Alexandria Herr May 25, 2022 ▶ 2:54 How air pollution and heat make pregnancy more dangerous

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Proposed Texas Ike Dike will be most expensive US civil engineering project
“It hasn't been built yet, but once it is, it'll be the biggest and most expensive civil engineering project in U.S. History.”
Alexandria Herr Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 1:06 The Ike Dike: the biggest civil engineering project in US history

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Alexandria Herr on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Alexandria Herr said on the Green Blueprint that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Herr: Over 1,700 Pregnancy-Related Arrests and Prosecutions Documented Since Roe
“Ever since the Roe v. Wade decision, there have been over 1700 documented arrests and prosecutions related to pregnancy outcomes, and that includes stillbirth.”
Alexandria Herr May 25, 2022 ▶ 2:54 How air pollution and heat make pregnancy more dangerous
Assertion Supported
Herr: Texas and Oklahoma Laws Offer $10,000 Rewards for Abortion Lawsuits
“Laws passed recently in Texas and Oklahoma actually offer 10,000 dollar rewards to people who can successfully sue anyone who, quote, aids or abets an abortion.”
Alexandria Herr May 25, 2022 ▶ 3:37 How air pollution and heat make pregnancy more dangerous
Assertion Supported
Herr: Medicine Cannot Distinguish Self-Managed Abortions From Miscarriages or Stillbirths
“The thing is, there's no medical way to tell the difference between a self-managed abortion or stillbirth or miscarriage.”
Alexandria Herr May 25, 2022 ▶ 3:59 How air pollution and heat make pregnancy more dangerous
Assertion Supported
Herr: California lacks mandatory buffer zones between oil wells and schools
“There's no rule in California that says oil wells has to be a certain distance from a home or a school or a hospital. It's one of the only oil producing states where that's actually the case.”
Alexandria Herr May 11, 2022 ▶ 4:53 The hidden history of California oil
Assertion Supported
Ike Dike is a $31 billion project taking 18 years to build
“As it stands right now, it's a thirty-one billion dollar project that's going to take at least 18 years to build.”
Alexandria Herr Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 6:54 The Ike Dike: the biggest civil engineering project in US history
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Herr: Post-Roe Criminalization Will Hit Polluted, Climate-Impacted Areas First
“And the criminalization of self-managed abortion and other adverse birth outcomes are going to hit places already overburdened by climate change and pollution hardest and first.”
Alexandria Herr May 25, 2022 ▶ 4:06 How air pollution and heat make pregnancy more dangerous
Assertion Partly supported
Herr: 14% of LA public schools are within 2,500 feet of oil wells
“Actually, 14% of all of the public schools in Los Angeles are within 2500 feet of a well, and seven million Californians live within a mile of a well.”
Alexandria Herr May 11, 2022 ▶ 5:12 The hidden history of California oil
Assertion Contradicted
Proposed Texas Ike Dike will be most expensive US civil engineering project
“It hasn't been built yet, but once it is, it'll be the biggest and most expensive civil engineering project in U.S. History.”
Alexandria Herr Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 1:06 The Ike Dike: the biggest civil engineering project in US history
Assertion Supported
Herr: Formerly redlined US neighborhoods are up to 13 degrees hotter
“A study that came out a few years ago, it found that neighborhoods that were formerly redlined today, they're about five degrees hotter than neighborhoods that were not. And that number is almost 13 degrees in Portland and 10 degrees in Minneapolis.”
Alexandria Herr Sep 7, 2022 ▶ 5:34 Why heat waves become deadly
Assertion Partly supported
Herr: Maternal morbidity in Baytown is twice the Texas state average
“Maternal morbidity, which is basically a term that means any unexpected outcome during birth that might lead to long-term health effects on the birthing parent, well, that rate is twice as high in Baytown than it is on average across the state.”
Alexandria Herr May 25, 2022 ▶ 5:59 How air pollution and heat make pregnancy more dangerous
Assertion Supported
Herr: Oil pump jacks operate right next to homes across California
“Yes, and that exists all over the state, and particularly in Los Angeles, you get these oil pump jacks just sitting right next to people's homes.”
Alexandria Herr May 11, 2022 ▶ 1:31 The hidden history of California oil
Assertion Supported
Herr: California proposed buffer regulation protects only against new oil wells
“But even that regulation hasn't been put in place yet, and it would still only apply to new wells, not the thousands and thousands of existing wells that are making people sick.”
Alexandria Herr May 11, 2022 ▶ 23:13 The hidden history of California oil
Assertion Supported
Congress passed Ike Dike plan in 2022 Water Resources Development Act
“That study itself took years and years, and then it ended up in a plan that finally made its way to Congress as a part of the Water Resources and Development Act of twenty-twenty-two. That piece of legislation passed both the House and the Senate this summer.”
Alexandria Herr Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 6:34 The Ike Dike: the biggest civil engineering project in US history
Assertion Supported
Port of Houston generates $800 billion in annual economic value
“It's home to the Port of Houston, which is the largest container port on the Gulf. It generates about eight hundred billion in economic value every year, and it's a hub for refining imports and exports of petroleum and petroleum products, basically an energy c…”
Alexandria Herr Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 10:58 The Ike Dike: the biggest civil engineering project in US history
Opinion
Herr: Americans do not treat extreme heat as an emergency
“I mean, I think a lot of Americans don't really see heat as an emergency. We do tornado drills, earthquake drills, we make hurricane evacuation plans, but Most of us don't really think about preparing for extreme heat in the same way.”
Alexandria Herr Sep 7, 2022 ▶ 0:55 Why heat waves become deadly
Assertion Supported
Herr: Cardiff Tower in LA disguised 40 oil wells as a synagogue
“That tower that you see, it's supposed to look like a synagogue, but it's actually hiding 40 oil wells. Yes, yes. it's called the Cardiff Tower, and it was built in the 19 sixties, and it's one of the first oil wells that's built this way.”
Alexandria Herr May 11, 2022 ▶ 3:23 The hidden history of California oil
Assertion Supported
Herr: Two California residential oil setback bills failed since 2020
“Even since 2020, there have been two bills that would have done exactly this, shut down oil drilling near residential areas, but both of them failed.”
Alexandria Herr May 11, 2022 ▶ 22:47 The hidden history of California oil

The other half of the tape: Alexandria Herr's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 48 times in 43 episodes on the Green Blueprint. every mention, with the transcript →

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2023 13 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
2022 32 mentions in 31 episodes 1 per episode

Appearances (5)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Ike Dike: the biggest civil engineering project in US history Nov 9, 2022 7m
From empty concrete to offshore wind hub? Oct 13, 2022 4m
Why heat waves become deadly Sep 7, 2022 6m
How air pollution and heat make pregnancy more dangerous May 25, 2022 3m
The hidden history of California oil May 11, 2022 7m
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