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Watchdogs warn that this lack of guardrails has allowed the biomass industry to harm the South’s forests, pollute poor communities living near biomass facilities and fall short of its climate claims.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

Guest: Robert Herguth, investigative reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times, part of the Watchdogs team.

From Slate • May 31, 2023

Watchdogs have been under intense scrutiny after the collapses of SVB and Signature set off fears of contagion.

From Reuters • May 15, 2023

Watchdogs say the 25 percent figure is misleading, as it includes investments such as those Shell is making in natural gas, a fossil fuel.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023

So that the Sovereign Power, these Sansculottic Watchdogs, more like wolves, being leashed and led away from his Tuileries, breathes freer.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas