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Ingrid Lobet

Investigative Reporter, inewsource

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Ingrid Lobet previously worked with the team of journalists at inewsource, a nonprofit journalism enterprise embedded in the KPBS newsroom. Lobet has covered the environment, energy and climate for 14 years and been recognized with several national awards, including IRE, Edward R. Murrow, Scripps Howard and the Polk (team). She served on the investigative team at the Houston Chronicle and produced stories for Marketplace and the Center for Investigative Reporting. When screen time overwhelms she reverts to carpentry, her first trade.

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KPBS Midday Edition

Two Ways Natural Gas May Be Escaping At Your Meter

Ingrid Lobet

Natural gas is leaking — sometimes deliberately — from residential gas meters up and down the state of California. That surprise is buried in state documents, a review by inewsource has found.
Environment

Electricity Alone Powers One Quarter Of US Homes

Ingrid Lobet

Recently inewsource reported that for climate reasons, some environmental groups are starting to advocate for all-electric homes. Those are homes in which all the appliances including heaters, hot water heaters and stoves run on electricity, not natural gas.
Environment

How Natural Gas Became The Dirty Fuel, At Least In Your Home

Ingrid Lobet

Not long ago natural gas — the fuel that probably gave you your hot shower this morning — was hailed as the clean “bridge fuel,” the one that would create a safe transition for society from yesterday’s dirtier home fuels, coal and oil, to a fully renewable future.
KPBS Midday Edition

El Cajon Family Endures Months, Possibly Years Of Toxic Indoor Air

Ingrid Lobet

The problem has existed since the 1960s and been known to state officials and the companies responsible since the 1980s. But the Masters family and many of their neighbors just found out last fall, after inewsource published an online map of the contamination.
Environment

Governor Jerry Brown Likely To Face Decision On 100 Percent Clean Electricity

Ingrid Lobet

A key vote this week in Sacramento has moved California closer than most people could imagine to a future in which all electricity — 100 percent of it — is produced without releasing more carbon into the air.
Environment

Company Offers Air Testing To El Cajon Mobile Home Residents

Ingrid Lobet

Ametek, Inc. is offering to test the air in any home in the three mobile home communities located over an increasingly high profile chemical plume that runs underground through part of El Cajon.