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S6E1 SLAPP'd Ep 1: How did we get here?
Greenpeace, which was only tangentially involved in the Standing Rock protests, has been slapped with a $666 million bill for damages...despite the fact that the Dakota Access Pipeline was built, and…
S6 New Drilled Season: SLAPP'd
This season on Drilled, an Indigenous nation fighting for its water, an international environmental movement finding its voice, and an industry attempting to crush its political opposition. Learn…
S4 New Evidence and an Update on U.S. Climate Cases
A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists compiles in one place all the documentary evidence on the role of fossil fuel companies in obstructing climate policy. We walk through the latest,…
S5E5 The Massive Climate Case that Shell Both Won and Lost, and What It Means for the Future of Global Climate Litigation
In November, a Dutch court ruled in Shell's favor on an appeal in a big international climate case. It got loads of headlines around the world, but it wasn't quite the win for Shell that a lot of…
S5E4 New Research Shows the Clean Air Act Always Intended to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions
In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts vs. EPA that when the U.S. Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, climate science was “in its infancy,” implying that government officials could…
S5E17 The Real Free Speech Threat: In El Salvador a Cold Case Murder Has Become a Weapon for Silencing Environmental Activists
In 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to pass an outright ban on mining. It was an effort to protect the country's water, and its people. Now, self-proclaimed "coolest dictator…
S5E3 Could You Really Charge Oil Companies with Murder? Plus: Supreme Court Climate Update
Public Citizen has been working with various prosecutors to explore the idea of using criminal law to hold oil companies accountable for climate change. In the wake of recent Supreme Court rulings,…
S5E2 The Coordinated Attack on Shareholder Activism
The backlash against ESG is continuing, with a string of lawsuits aimed at shutting down shareholder activism. We don't often talk about shareholder activism in the vein of protecting protest, but…
S5E1 The New Carbon Majors Report + Swiss Elders Win Landmark Climate Case
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…
S5E16 The Real Free Speech Threat: In Nigeria's Ogoniland, Protestors Still Fighting to Hold Oil Accompanies Accountable
Shell announced in late 2023 that it would be shutting down all of its onshore activities in Nigeria and concentrating its efforts offshore. It leaves behind poisoned water, multiple political and…
S5E15 The Real Free Speech Threat: Department of Homeland Security, the Manufactured "EcoTerrorist" Panic, and Cop City
The U.S. government's definition of what constitutes an "ecoterrorist" has long driven backlash against environmental activists and in recent years that definition has only broadened. Investigative…
S5E14 The Real Free Speech Threat: Meet the UN's First Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders
In June 2022, Michel Forst became the first UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders. In that role he has spent the past year visiting various countries and speaking out about the…
S5E13 The Real Free Speech Threat: How UK Courts Became the New Climate Protest Battleground
About a decade after UK courts made history with the first "climate necessity" ruling in history, the UK government has passed new laws that not only restrict what protesters can do, but also how…
S5E12 The Real Free Speech Threat: What Happened At Bayou Bridge? The Other End of the Dakota Access Pipeline
While protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation garnered international news coverage, at the southern end of the pipeline, cops moonlighting as…
S5E11 The Real Free Speech Threat: Seven Years Later, an Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline
In December 2023, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed the comment period on its draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,172-mile pipeline that’s been pumping…
S5E10 The Real Free Speech Threat: The Fossil Fuel Industry Meets Indigenous Protest with "Redwashing" and Repression in Canada
As we resume our season focused on the global criminalization of climate protest, reporter Martha Troian brings us to Canada, where the Wet'suwet'en people have been fighting for years against a gas…
S5E9 The Real Free Speech Threat: On the Tomato Soup "Controversy"
Globally, climate activism has shifted over the past few years. It’s more constant now and includes more direct action than ever before. Some of that action has critics, including climate scientists…
S5E8 The Real Free Speech Threat: In Brazil, A Tale as Old as Colonization—Why Indigenous Land Defenders Are Particularly Targeted by Extractive Industries
From Ecuador to North Dakota, British Columbia to New Zealand, the backlash against Indigenous-led environmental protest is always particularly harsh, infused with colonialist entitlement to land,…
S5E7 The Real Free Speech Threat: Joanna Smith on "Conspiring Against the United States" with...Fingerpaint
In April 2023, Joanna Oltman Smith walked into the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. with fellow activist Tim Martin, and smeared water-soluble kids' finger paint on the glass display case…
S4 Damages Recommends: Outrage and Optimism—How to Talk About Climate So That People Will Listen
Welcome to Outrage + Optimism, where they examine issues at the forefront of the climate crisis, interview change-makers, and transform anger into productive dialogue for building a sustainable…
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