How Climate Language Shapes Climate Politics with Genevieve Guenther
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 fol...
1 Loka 20241h 15min
Climate Week 2024: Taking on the Mad Men of Big Oil
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. I...
24 Syys 202417min
How Fossil-Funded University Research Shapes Climate Policy
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 ...
20 Syys 20241h 3min
Climate and Project 2025: Mary Annaïse Heglar & Amy Westervelt on Spill
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 an...
9 Syys 202450min
The Battle Over the Clean Air Act
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 official...
15 Elo 202428min
How Big Oil Sold a “Climate Solution” and Stuck Taxpayers with the Bill
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 di...
30 Heinä 202435min
Silencing Activists: How an El Savador Cold Case Murder Became a Tool to Criminalize Activism
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 Bukel...
17 Heinä 202438min
From Damages: Could Oil Companies Be Charged with Murder?
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 clim...
9 Heinä 202433min
