An Update on the Youth Climate Lawsuit
In the 2015 case Juliana v. United States, 21 young adults sued the United States for knowingly driving and exacerbating climate change. In 2021, the 9th Circuit declared that the young people did not...
28 Jan 202227min
Exxon Takes Its First Amendment Battle to the Texas Supreme Court
Guardian journalist Chris McGreal breaks down ExxonMobil's attempt to claim lawsuits that hold the company accountable for climate disinformation amounts to a conspiracy against its free speech rights...
21 Jan 202219min
Reclaiming Environmentalism
For decades, the fossil fuel industry has successfully framed environmentalists as silly, radical, elitist, or out of touch. And for too long, the climate movement has bought into this framing, self-f...
14 Jan 202215min
Climate Crisis, Meet Democracy Crisis
What happens when the climate crisis collides with the unraveling of American democracy? Max Berger, a longtime progressive organizer who helped incubate the Sunrise Movement and worked with both Cori...
7 Jan 202231min
Drilled Presents | Scene on Radio, The Repair | Episode 9: Pachamama
In several countries around the world, including Ecuador, New Zealand, and the U.S., some people are trying to protect the planet using a legal concept called “rights of nature”—infusing the law with ...
17 Des 202143min
The Influence Industry and Climate Obstruction
Groundbreaking new research from Brown University's Dr. Robert Brulle shows just how much oil companies have spent on PR in recent decades, and tracks how PR firms helped to architect climate obstruct...
10 Des 202131min
One PR Firm Works on More Climate Obstruction Than Any Other
In a new study, sociologist Robert Brulle examined which PR firms work for the various industries obstructing climate action. Only one firm was in the top 3 for every single segment. Listen to find ou...
7 Des 202126min
Fracking the Outback: Australia's Plan to Go Big on Fracking and Plastic
As the rest of the world is beginning to realize that fracking comes with more downsides than upsides, Australia is readying itself for a fracking boom, eyeing basins on Indigenous land. See omnystud...
26 Nov 202127min
