Los Cedros: The Cloud Forest vs. The Mine
Ecuador made history as the first country to adopt rights of nature into its constitution, but its Constitutional Court—Ecuador’s equivalent to the United States Supreme Court—has not heard many cases...
11 Mars 202229min
West Virginia vs. EPA: Worst-Case Scenario and What Comes Next
The Supreme Court is taking its time in releasing a ruling in the controversial West Virginia vs. EPA case. We explore the roots of the case, its position in rightwing judicial strategy, and what aven...
3 Mars 202221min
A Brief History of Rights of Nature in the United States
Rights of nature first started making its way into U.S. courtrooms via an unlikely source: Disney. Today it's a huge threat to the fossil fuel industry. So much so that the industry is pushing preempt...
24 Feb 202231min
Drilled Presents: Damages
Damages follows the hundreds of climate lawsuits currently happening all over the country, first examining rights of nature cases all over the world. In this episode, we start with a case that's makin...
18 Feb 202232min
The Right-Wing Web of Climate Delay
Right-wing funders don't only work on climate denial, voter suppression, or attacks on public schools—they tackle all of it together. Lisa Graves, an expert on right-wing strategy, talks us through th...
12 Feb 202234min
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
