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25 JUN

Denial to Delay: How Management Consultancies Data-Wash False Solutions and the Great Gas Lock-In

Fossil fuel companies can't push ideas like "low carbon gas" or overstate the emissions-reduction potential of technologies like carbon capture without the help of a whole system of folks who help them sell the idea. The role management consultancies play in that process has been largely under-covered, but today we dig into just how helpful they've been through the story of one consultancy in particular. Reporter Maddie Stone walks us through how multinational consultancy ICF, which is well known for its government climate work, also works to produce reports the fossil fuel industry uses to promote oil and gas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

25 Jun

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36 min
SEASON 10 BONUS

The U.S. Anti-Renewables Movement, Explained

Late last year, Brown University's Climate and Development Lab put out a comprehensive report looking at the opposition to wind energy on the east coast of the U.S., called "Against the Wind." Today, the lead author of that report, Isaac Slevin, walks us through what's real and what's manufactured in this opposition, which has not only continued to grow in the U.S. but now influenced a similar movement in Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season 10 Bonus

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47 min
14/11/2023

Abeer Butmeh: Living on the Front Lines of a War and the Climate Crisis, in Palestine

Abeer Butmeh, coordinator of the Palestinian NGOs Network, one of the most important Palestinian environmental organizations, spoke to senior editor Alleen Brown about battling for short-term and long-term survival when your identity itself is criminalized. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

14/11/2023

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36 min
05/12/2023

Modern-Day Bead Trading: 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 pipeline they never authorized on their territory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

05/12/2023

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43 min
5 MAR

Nearly 30 Years After the Ogoni 9 Tragedy, Nigerians Are Still Resisting Oil Colonialism

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 economic crises, and a country that is measurably worse off today than when its oil industry began. Meanwhile the government continues to target environmental activists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5 Mar

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44 min
9 JUL

Could You Really Charge Oil Companies with Murder? Plus: Supreme Court Climate Update

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

9 Jul

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37 min
16 JAN

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 protesters are allowed to defend themselves in court. Some judges don't apply the new laws so strictly, but others have held people in contempt for just trying to explain themselves. In some courtrooms, the climate necessity defense has been effectively outlawed. How did that happen? And how did it happen so quickly? That's our story today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

16 Jan

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34 min
13 FEB

Dana R. Fisher on the Past, Present and Future of Climate Protest

In her new book Saving Ourselves, Dana R. Fisher compiles years worth of research on protest in general and climate protest in particular for a comprehensive look at tactics, what "works," what a protest "working" even means, where the movement is likely to go next and where it needs to go to achieve real climate action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

13 Feb

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47 min
25/05/2022

S6, Part2 | Ep 5: The Disaster Capitalist Response to Russia-Ukraine

In the response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the gas industry is now fully embracing it's new role. Right alongside the API, Chevron, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the industry moved quickly to capture the narrative in the early days of the invasion, going from disinformation blitz to policy wins within a matter of weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

25/05/2022

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30 min
SEASON 10 TRAILER

Introducing Our New Season: The Real Free Speech Threat

Around the world, climate and other environmental protestors are being harassed, attacked, and arrested at an alarming rate. Laws are being passed that levy life-altering prison sentences and fines on protestors arrested near anything deemed “critical infrastructure,” which is defined so broadly it’s hard to find a public space that wouldn’t be near it anymore. Corporations are suing protestors and NGOs, comparing protest to organized crime. Governments are growing increasingly comfortable branding environmental protestors as “domestic terrorists.” And so far the media is largely participating in the rhetorical “othering” of protestors, opting in most cases to focus on the disruption that protest causes rather than the change it seeks, and to marginalize activists. In this print and audio series we’ll take an in-depth look at how climate protest has evolved in recent years, where this backlash is coming from, how it’s grown so quickly, and what it feels like to be someone who’s concerned enough about the future of humanity to join a protest, only to find themselves facing police violence and several years in jail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3 min

A true-crime podcast about climate change. Hosted by award-winning investigative journalist Amy Westervelt and reported by a team of climate journalists, Drilled investigates the various obstacles that have kept the world from adequately responding to climate change.

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In Rigged, we’ll rummage through the bag of tricks used by PR to shape the world you live in. Over the last century, these tricks have rigged the media, the government… society, really...with sometimes ridiculous, and sometimes profoundly serious effects on our democracy. This is a podcast about that war for hearts and minds right here on US soil.

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Law & Order meets the climate crisis as we dig into the stories behind the hundreds of climate cases around the globe.

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Denial to Delay: How Management Consultancies Data-Wash False Solutions and the Great Gas Lock-In

The U.S. Anti-Renewables Movement, Explained

Abeer Butmeh: Living on the Front Lines of a War and the Climate Crisis, in Palestine

Modern-Day Bead Trading: The Fossil Fuel Industry Meets Indigenous Protest with "Redwashing" and Repression in Canada

Nearly 30 Years After the Ogoni 9 Tragedy, Nigerians Are Still Resisting Oil Colonialism

Could You Really Charge Oil Companies with Murder? Plus: Supreme Court Climate Update

How UK Courts Became the New Climate Protest Battleground

Dana R. Fisher on the Past, Present and Future of Climate Protest

S6, Part2 | Ep 5: The Disaster Capitalist Response to Russia-Ukraine

Introducing Our New Season: The Real Free Speech Threat

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S1 Ep2 | Ye Olde Crisis Actor Myth (Ad-free)

Sneak Preview, Rigged Ep 1: Fake Experts and Real Bacon

S1 Ep5 | Fun with Front Groups

Loss Is on the Calendar in Nigeria (Ad-free)

S6, Part2 | Ep 3: Anatomy of a Front Group

S6, Part 2 | Ep2: The New Climate Villains

West Virginia Is Giving Texas a Run for Its Money on Climate Obstruction (Ad-Free)

Loss and Damage, Minus the Fossil Fuels As Development Myth (ad-free)

Why Is One of Big Oil's Top Greenwashing PR Firms Handling Media for COP27? (ad-free)

Widening the Lens of Accountability, with Naomi Oreskes, Jennifer Jacquet, Dr. David Michaels, Geoffrey Supran, and Jessica Wentz (ad-free)

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Denial to Delay: How Management Consultancies Data-Wash False Solutions and the Great Gas Lock-In

The U.S. Anti-Renewables Movement, Explained

Abeer Butmeh: Living on the Front Lines of a War and the Climate Crisis, in Palestine

Modern-Day Bead Trading: The Fossil Fuel Industry Meets Indigenous Protest with "Redwashing" and Repression in Canada

Nearly 30 Years After the Ogoni 9 Tragedy, Nigerians Are Still Resisting Oil Colonialism

Could You Really Charge Oil Companies with Murder? Plus: Supreme Court Climate Update

How UK Courts Became the New Climate Protest Battleground

Dana R. Fisher on the Past, Present and Future of Climate Protest

S6, Part2 | Ep 5: The Disaster Capitalist Response to Russia-Ukraine

Introducing Our New Season: The Real Free Speech Threat

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S1 Ep2 | Ye Olde Crisis Actor Myth (Ad-free)

Sneak Preview, Rigged Ep 1: Fake Experts and Real Bacon

S1 Ep5 | Fun with Front Groups

Loss Is on the Calendar in Nigeria (Ad-free)

S6, Part2 | Ep 3: Anatomy of a Front Group

S6, Part 2 | Ep2: The New Climate Villains

West Virginia Is Giving Texas a Run for Its Money on Climate Obstruction (Ad-Free)

Loss and Damage, Minus the Fossil Fuels As Development Myth (ad-free)

Why Is One of Big Oil's Top Greenwashing PR Firms Handling Media for COP27? (ad-free)

Widening the Lens of Accountability, with Naomi Oreskes, Jennifer Jacquet, Dr. David Michaels, Geoffrey Supran, and Jessica Wentz (ad-free)

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