Gloria Riviera

Journalist and Podcast Host, Lemonada Media · 1 appearance on the record.

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Gloria Riviera is an Emmy and duPont Award-winning journalist who spent over two decades as a correspondent and producer for ABC News. She now hosts investigative podcast series for Lemonada Media, including Discarded and No One Is Coming to Save Us.

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Riviera: The Sunshine Project Would Roughly Double Local Toxic Emissions

“Well, according to a Guardian article, this Sunshine Project would roughly double toxic emissions in its local area.”

Gloria Riviera Mar 13, 2023 ▶ 6:05 Introducing Discarded: Episode 1, David vs. Goliath

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Assertion Supported

Riviera: The Sunshine Project Would Roughly Double Local Toxic Emissions

“Well, according to a Guardian article, this Sunshine Project would roughly double toxic emissions in its local area.”

Gloria Riviera Mar 13, 2023 ▶ 6:05 Introducing Discarded: Episode 1, David vs. Goliath

Assertion Supported

Riviera: 150 chemical plants operate along New Orleans-Baton Rouge corridor

“This 85 mile stretch between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is known as the Industrial Corridor. There are some 150 plants and refineries up and down this part of the Mississippi that process oil and produce the chemicals that make up plastic.”

Gloria Riviera Mar 13, 2023 ▶ 4:14 Introducing Discarded: Episode 1, David vs. Goliath

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Riviera: Formosa Plastics Bid $9.4B for 2,400 Acres in St. James Parish

“In 2018, Taiwanese-based Formosa Plastics Corporation put in a bid, a big bid, 9.4 billion dollars for 2400 acres in St. James Parish.”

Gloria Riviera Mar 13, 2023 ▶ 5:26 Introducing Discarded: Episode 1, David vs. Goliath

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Introducing Discarded: Episode 1, David vs. Goliath	Mar 13, 2023	21m

Gloria Riviera

The record, in short

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