In November, a Dutch court ruled in Shell's favor on an appeal in a big international climate case, but it wasn't quite the win for Shell that the media made it out to be. While Shell won on appeal in some areas, the court reaffirmed a critical point from the original case: that Shell is legally required to reduce its global emissions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 02, 2024•21 min•Season 11Ep. 8
The food we eat is more deeply tied to fossil fuels than most people realize. Fuel to Fork co-hosts Anna Lappé and Matthew Kessler talk through the history of fossil fuels and food and why it's remained hidden for so long. Find Fuel to Fork here . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 12, 2024•49 min•Season 11Ep. 8
In her new book, The Language of Climate Politics , Genevieve Guenther digs into six key rhetorical devices that are being used to slow or block climate action. For an academic book, it's made some folks on the Internet awfully mad. Amy and Genevieve discuss the arguments at hand, why they've ignited online backlash, and what Genevieve’s research reveals about the political battles over climate policy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 01, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 11Ep. 7
Long before outright climate denial, the fossil fuel industry relied on sophisticated PR and advertising campaigns to shape how the public understood the economy, the environment, and energy itself. In this Climate Week 2024 episode, we revisit The Mad Men of Big Oil—our 2020 investigative season on the public relations industry’s role in fueling climate disaster. The series helped inspire campaigns to clean up the PR industry and has only grown more relevant, with UN Secretary-General António G...
Sep 24, 2024•17 min•Season 11Ep. 7
Universities can play a powerful role in shaping climate research and public policy. Drilled reporter Molly Taft joins us to talk about newly released information on fossil fuel funding of university research, and shares interviews with climate disinformation researcher Geoffrey Supran , who authored one of the recent studies, and with philosopher of science Craig Callender at the University of California San Diego, which just passed a precedent-setting policy to require disclosure of funding on...
Sep 20, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 11Ep. 6
What does Project 2025 mean for climate policy and what should we expect to hear (or not hear) about climate in this week’s presidential debate? In Spill, our climate talk show, Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt break down the political moments shaping climate action in the United States. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 09, 2024•50 min•Season 11Ep. 5
In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts vs. EPA that when the United States Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, climate science was “in its infancy,” implying that government officials could never have intended for the legislation to cover the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. In 2022, SCOTUS doubled down on that idea, ruling in West Virginia vs. EPA that since the Clean Air Act didn't explicitly talk about climate change, the EPA cannot regulate greenhouse gas emissions. ...
Aug 15, 2024•29 min•Season 11Ep. 4
Carbon capture has always seemed flawed as a climate solution, but in a blockbuster investigation co-published with Vox, we discovered just how scammy it really is. Carolyn Raffensperger , executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network walks through the many issues with carbon capture technology, from the lack of climate benefit to the massive public health threat it creates. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jul 30, 2024•35 min•Season 11Ep. 3
In 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to pass an outright ban on mining to protect the country's water and people. Now, self-proclaimed "coolest dictator in the world" Nayib Bukele seeks to lift the ban in an effort to boost the economy, which took a major hit thanks to his embrace of Bitcoin as the national currency in 2021. The activists who helped pass the ban are standing in his way. The solution? Accuse them of a decades-old unsolved murder. Reporter Sebastian Escalon b...
Jul 17, 2024•39 min•Season 10Ep. 19
With the Supreme Court reshaping the legal landscape, we've been getting a ton of emails about what legal strategies might be available for climate accountability. In this episode of Damages, our climate litigation podcast, we share how Public Citizen has been working to explore the idea of using criminal law to hold oil companies accountable for climate change. Aaron Regunburg , Public Citizen's senior climate policy counsel, joins us to discuss. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...
Jul 09, 2024•34 min•Season 11Ep. 3
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is increasingly marketed as a “green” or “clean” energy solution, but the reality tells a different story. As part of our ongoing series looking into new climate problems the fossil fuel industry is peddling as solutions, we uncover the role of a particularly active lobbying group pushing LNG as a climate solution. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 03, 2024•39 min•Season 11Ep. 2
Fossil fuel companies can't push ideas like "low carbon gas" or oversell technologies like carbon capture alone. Management consultations play a critical, and often overlooked, role in shaping climate narratives. Reporter Maddie Stone investigates multinational consultancy ICF, which is well known for its government climate work, and also produces reports the fossil fuel industry uses to promote oil and gas expansion. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 25, 2024•35 min•Season 11Ep. 1
The backlash against ESG continues, with a string of lawsuits aimed at shutting down shareholder activism. Andrew Behar, CEO of shareholder advocacy group As You Sow , joins us to explain what's going on, and why anyone who cares about basic rights needs to be tuning into the ESG fight. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 18, 2024•52 min•Season 10Ep. 21
The landmark Carbon Majors report has been updated with some surprising new data and the European Court of Human Rights has sent down an historic ruling that will shape how EU legislators look at energy and climate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 16, 2024•41 min
In France, the working-class Yellow Vest movement, racial equality groups, and progressive climate activists have joined forces in a multi-racial, cross-class coalition called Earth Uprisings. The response has been shockingly violent and extreme. Reporter Anna Pujol-Mazzini takes us there. Check out Fatima Ouassak's new book Pour Une Écologie Pirate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Apr 03, 2024•49 min•Season 10Ep. 18
Isaac Slevin, lead author of Brown University's Against the Wind report on opposition to wind energy on the east coast of the United States, walks us through the opposition and how these anti-renewable tactics are now influencing movements in Australia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 20, 2024•47 min
Decades after the Ogini 9 were executed for opposing Shell's operations, Nigeria continues to grapple with the environmental and political fall out of oil extraction. With Shell shutting down onshore activities in 2023, they leave behind poisoned water, various political and economic crises, and a country that is measurably worse off than when its oil industry began. Meanwhile, the government continues to target environmental activists. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 05, 2024•43 min•Season 10Ep. 17
Last year, headlines all over the world proclaimed victory for the environment: finally, after more than a decade of promises, there would be no more drilling in Yasuní National Park, a large swath of the Ecuadorian Amazon. But as Macy Lipkin reports, all wasn't what it seemed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 20, 2024•26 min
Check out the limited-run series Hazard NYC from The City, all about how climate change intersects with Superfund sites in New York City. Start with episode one here . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 19, 2024•2 min
Sociologist Dana R. Fisher draws on years of research in her new book, Saving Ourselves , to explore what makes climate protests effective, what a protest "working" even means, where the climate movement is likely to go next, and where it needs to go to achieve real climate action. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 13, 2024•46 min•Season 10Ep. 16
The United States' governments definition of "ecoterrorism" has long fueled backlash against environmental activists. Investigative reporter and Drilled senior editor Alleen Brown uncovers how the Department of Homeland Security warned Atlanta officials about the threat posed by "Defend the Atlanta Forest" for months before police raided the forest, ultimately killing one protestor, and charging dozens more with domestic terrorism and racketeering. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa...
Jan 31, 2024•39 min•Season 10Ep. 15
Michel Forst became the United Nations' first Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders in 2022, monitoring the increasingly onerous laws and aggressive tactics being used against climate protestors. France reporter Anna Pujol-Massini talks to Forst about his position, his urgent warnings about climate activism in the United Kingdom, and what power he has to do something about the crackdown on climate protest. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jan 23, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 10Ep. 14
A decade after United Kingdom courts made history with the first "climate necessity" ruling in history, the UK government has passed new laws that not only restrict what protesters can do, but also how protesters are allowed to defend themselves in court. In some courtrooms, the climate necessity defense has been effectively outlawed. How did that happen, how did it happen so quickly, and what does it mean for the future of climate activism in the UK? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...
Jan 16, 2024•33 min•Season 10Ep. 13
While protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation drew international attention, the southern end of the pipeline saw a quieter, but no less intense crackdown. Cops moonlighted as pipeline security while suppressing free speech and the right to protest. Reporter Karen Savage shares what happened at Bayou Bridge, and what lessons we can take away from the climate movement for anyone who values democracy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...
Dec 19, 2023•44 min•Season 10Ep. 12
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closes the comment period on its draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,172-mile pipeline that’s been pumping 500,000 barrels of oil per day since May 2017. The pipeline runs from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to southern Illinois, crossing the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. Over the past six years, every court in the country has ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers did not study the pipeline’s environmental impact cl...
Dec 07, 2023•37 min•Season 10Ep. 11
Reporter Martha Troian brings us to Canada, where the Wet'suwet'en people have been fighting for years against a gas pipeline they never authorized on their territory and examines how fossil fuel companies employ "redwashing" to manipulate public perception. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 05, 2023•42 min•Season 10Ep. 10
Abeer Butmeh , coordinator of the Palestinian NGOs Network, one of the most important Palestinian environmental organizations, spoke to senior editor Alleen Brown about battling for short-term and long-term survival when your identity itself is criminalized. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 14, 2023•35 min•Season 10Ep. 11
Magatte Wade of the Atlas Network’s Center for African Prosperity joins us to discuss the intersection of poverty, climate, and property rights. We also dive into the nuances that too often get left out of climate conversation. Additional resources: Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) DeSmog profile of ARC DeSmog coverage of ARC 2023 forum Narasimha Rao's Decent Living Energy Project Drilled Guyana season Center for African Prosperity See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Climate activism has shifted over the past few years—it's more constant now and includes more direct action than ever before. Some of that action has sparked backlash from critics, including climate scientists and advocates, worried that protest will turn the public away from the urgent need to act on the climate crisis. Social science researchers who study structural change and protest say there's no evidence to back up that fear and that the only time social movements have ever affected change...
Oct 17, 2023•32 min•Season 10Ep. 9
From Ecuador to North Dakota, British Columbia to New Zealand, the backlash against Indigenous-led environmental protest is always particularly harsh, infused with colonialist entitlement to land, water, and other resources. Historian Nick Estes walks us through what that looks like in the United States, and the great team behind the documentary The Territory brings us a recent example from Brazil. Check out the film here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 10, 2023•28 min•Season 10Ep. 8
