Damages
by Critical Frequency
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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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- SLAPP'd Ep 1: How did we get here? · 43 min · Season 6 Episode 1Greenpeace, 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…
- New Drilled Season: SLAPP'd · 4 min · Season 6This 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…
- New Evidence and an Update on U.S. Climate Cases · 27 min · Season 4A 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…
- The Massive Climate Case that Shell Both Won and Lost, and What It Means for the Future of Global Climate Litigation · 21 min · Season 5 Episode 5In 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…
- New Research Shows the Clean Air Act Always Intended to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions · 30 min · Season 5 Episode 4In 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…
- The Real Free Speech Threat: In El Salvador a Cold Case Murder Has Become a Weapon for Silencing Environmental Activists · 40 min · Season 5 Episode 17In 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…
- Could You Really Charge Oil Companies with Murder? Plus: Supreme Court Climate Update · 34 min · Season 5 Episode 3Public 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…
- The Coordinated Attack on Shareholder Activism · 53 min · Season 5 Episode 2The 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…
- The New Carbon Majors Report + Swiss Elders Win Landmark Climate Case · 42 min · Season 5 Episode 1Lots 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…
- The Real Free Speech Threat: In Nigeria's Ogoniland, Protestors Still Fighting to Hold Oil Accompanies Accountable · 44 min · Season 5 Episode 16Shell 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…
- The Real Free Speech Threat: Department of Homeland Security, the Manufactured "EcoTerrorist" Panic, and Cop City · 40 min · Season 5 Episode 15The 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…
- The Real Free Speech Threat: Meet the UN's First Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders · 1 h 13 min · Season 5 Episode 14In 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…
- The Real Free Speech Threat: How UK Courts Became the New Climate Protest Battleground · 34 min · Season 5 Episode 13About 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…
- The Real Free Speech Threat: What Happened At Bayou Bridge? The Other End of the Dakota Access Pipeline · 45 min · Season 5 Episode 12While 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…
- The Real Free Speech Threat: Seven Years Later, an Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline · 38 min · Season 5 Episode 11In 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…
- The Real Free Speech Threat: The Fossil Fuel Industry Meets Indigenous Protest with "Redwashing" and Repression in Canada · 44 min · Season 5 Episode 10As 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…
- The Real Free Speech Threat: On the Tomato Soup "Controversy" · 32 min · Season 5 Episode 9Globally, 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…
- The Real Free Speech Threat: In Brazil, A Tale as Old as Colonization—Why Indigenous Land Defenders Are Particularly Targeted by Extractive Industries · 29 min · Season 5 Episode 8From Ecuador to North Dakota, British Columbia to New Zealand, the backlash against Indigenous-led environmental protest is always particularly harsh, infused with colonialist…
- The Real Free Speech Threat: Joanna Smith on "Conspiring Against the United States" with...Fingerpaint · 50 min · Season 5 Episode 7In 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…
- Damages Recommends: Outrage and Optimism—How to Talk About Climate So That People Will Listen · 59 min · Season 4Welcome to Outrage + Optimism, where they examine issues at the forefront of the climate crisis, interview change-makers, and transform anger into productive dialogue for…
