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Climate news, culture and commentary from Mary Annaise Heglar and Amy Westervelt

  1. Season 5 Trailer

    The End of an Era and the Start of Something New

    Hey Hot Cakes! Mary and I will be sunsetting the Hot Take feed over the coming weeks, but if you're looking for weekly coverage of climate news and culture with plenty of jokes and f-bombs mixed in, you can find it over on the Drilled feed. Starting in September whenever we don't have a narrative season running over there, we'll be bringing you weekly updates on all things climate every Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The End of an Era and the Start of Something New

  2. 11/26/2024

    This Is Bullsh*t

    We're pissed off and full of dread and tired of hiding it. Buckle up, folks, Mary and Amy get real about what's coming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. 09/09/2024

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

    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

  4. 07/09/2024

    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

  5. 06/25/2024

    ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten on Climate Migration

    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

  6. 05/30/2024

    John Kasper: A Guy Who Sucked

    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

  7. 05/08/2024

    Maddie Stone on Microsoft's Role in the Climate Crisis

    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

  8. 04/22/2024

    Welcome to Spill and Happy Earth Day: Freeing Palestine Is a Climate Issue

    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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Climate news, culture and commentary from Mary Annaise Heglar and Amy Westervelt

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    Critical Frequency
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
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