Episodes

  • Mary + Amy's Debate Preview: What Project 2025 Tells Us About Trump, What Harris Is and Isn't Saying About Climate, and More

    Mary + Amy's Debate Preview: What Project 2025 Tells Us About Trump, What Harris Is and Isn't Saying About Climate, and More
    Sep 9 2024
    Will we hear anything about climate in Harris's first debate with Trump? What can we glean from Project 2025 about how Trump will approach environmental justice? Plus re-thinking the climate movement and politics, with Mary Annaïse Heglar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    50 mins
  • Could You Really Charge Oil Companies with Murder? Plus: Supreme Court Climate Update

    Could You Really Charge Oil Companies with Murder? Plus: Supreme Court Climate Update
    Jul 9 2024
    This week, we bring you an episode from our climate litigation podcast, Damages, because we've been getting SO MANY emails about what sorts of legal strategies might still be available for climate accountability given everything happening at the Supreme Court. Public Citizen has been working with various prosecutors to explore the idea of using criminal law to hold oil companies accountable for climate change, but is it really viable? The group's senior climate policy counsel, Aaron Regunburg, joins us to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    36 mins
  • ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten on Climate Migration

    ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten on Climate Migration
    Jun 25 2024
    In his new book, On the Move, ProPublica climate reporter Abrahm Lustgarten digs into the ways climate change is re-shaping where people live and how they move in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    44 mins
  • John Kasper: A Guy Who Sucked

    John Kasper: A Guy Who Sucked
    May 30 2024
    Over the years we've talked a lot about the intersection between civil rights and climate change. Now Mary Annaïse Heglar has a novel out (her first!) that lives in that intersection and it's fascinating. On this episode she brings us the story of a guy who fought the desegregation of schools, and why it's important to remember the many ways in which the fight for climate action and the fight for racial justice overlap. Help Mary's Aunt Jackie: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pej5x-please-help-me-support-my-aunt?attribution_id=sl:f9898bae-f933-4b7a-a739-58d6b8b6b202&utm_campaign=man_ss_icons&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link Buy Mary's book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/troubled-waters-mary-annaise-heglar/20208074?ean=9781400248117 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    52 mins
  • Maddie Stone on Microsoft's Role in the Climate Crisis

    Maddie Stone on Microsoft's Role in the Climate Crisis
    May 8 2024
    In a new story co-published by Grist and Drilled, Microsoft employees who spent years fighting the tech giant's oil ties are speaking out about the worker-led effort to get the world's most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    35 mins
  • Welcome to Spill and Happy Earth Day: Freeing Palestine Is a Climate Issue

    Welcome to Spill and Happy Earth Day: Freeing Palestine Is a Climate Issue
    Apr 22 2024
    Hot Take co-hosts Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt are back with a new show blending climate news updates and cultural commentary, plus a monthly Hot Take-style conversation. In our first episode: what else? A conversation about the intersection between the war on Gaza and the climate crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    55 mins
  • Climate News Update: The New Carbon Majors + Swiss Elders Win Landmark Climate Case

    Climate News Update: The New Carbon Majors + Swiss Elders Win Landmark Climate Case
    Apr 16 2024
    Lots of news lately on stories we've been following, so in today's episode: an update! 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    41 mins
  • Slow Factory's Céline Semaan on Climate Justice, Collective Liberation, and Building an Unbreakable Movement

    Slow Factory's Céline Semaan on Climate Justice, Collective Liberation, and Building an Unbreakable Movement
    Apr 2 2024
    When Celine Semaan began calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, she was surprised at the backlash she and her team at Slow Factory got, including multiple funders pulling their support. Today, Semaan is more determined than ever to push for climate justice and collective liberation. Pre-order A Woman Is a School: https://shop.slowfactory.earth/products/a-woman-is-a-school Check out course(s) on Open Edu: https://slowfactory.earth/open-edu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    44 mins