How the Media Has Helped to Criminalize Climate Protest with Evlondo Cooper
Media Matters senior researcher Evlondo Cooper breaks down how the media has covered climate activism, shaping mainstream perception and helping the fossil fuel industry in its quest to criminalize cl...
22 Aug 202322min
Coming Soon: The Real Free Speech Threat
Around the world, environmental protesters are facing escalating repression—from harsh laws with life-altering prison sentences to fines to protesters arreseted near "critical infrastructure" to viole...
15 Aug 20233min
The Next Citizens United Will Be a Climate Case
In more than 30 climate cases making their way through United States courts today, oil companies are using an argument they've been laying the legal groundwork for since the 1970s: that since everythi...
1 Aug 202325min
A Legal Strategy: How Mobil Oil Fought for Corporate Free Speech
Mobil Oil worried that its advertorial campaigns positioning Mobil as a personality in and of itself might be labeled "propaganda" by TV networks and deemed unfit to run. In response, Herb Schmertz, V...
25 Juli 202329min
The Panic: How Mobil Oil Changed Advertising Forever
In the 1970s, Mobil Oil invented the advertorial and was aggressively pursuing an entirely new type of marketing, branding the company as a person itself with a unique personality and opinions that de...
18 Juli 202333min
"Cancer Alley" Fiights Back
Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"—a stretch along the Mississippi River where petrochemical plants have created some of the worst air and water pollution America—has become a battleground. ExxonMobil, Chevro...
20 Juni 202323min
The Anti-ESG Campaign Gets a Boost from RAGA
Ever since the Securities and Exchange Commission announced its intention to make Environmental Social and Governance metrics actually meaningful to investors, polluting industries have suddenly turne...
13 Juni 202318min
Jake Bittle on the Complexities of Climate Migration
Jake Bittle's book The Great Displacement looks at how extreme weather events are likely to drive Americans to move from one part of the country (or their state) to another. He talks through the compl...
30 Maj 202334min
