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Drilling Deep: Karen Hao on How Big AI Is Gambling with the Planet’s Chips

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10 Years After Berta Cáceres’s Murder, Why Is Honduras Still So Dangerous for Environmentalists?

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Just Because the U.S. Says It's Legal Doesn't Make It So: Companies Trading in Illegally Seized Venezuelan Oil Face Legal Risk

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How Climate Protest Backlash Led to Present-Day Repression

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A "Green Transition"? If Only It Were That Simple

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Introducing Lawless Planet: "Surveillance and Sabotage on the Dakota Access Pipeline"

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Drilling Deep: John Vaillant on Climate Change and Wildfire

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The Norwegian Paradox: Norway's Fossil Fuel Dilemma

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How Climate Activists Successfully Fight Obstruction

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How Litigation Works to Fight Climate Obstruction

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Drlling Deep: Uruguay's Renewable Energy System with Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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COP Out: What the Heck Happened at COP30?

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How and Why Climate Adaptation Measures Get Blocked

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Carbon Bros Mailbag: Navigating Traditional Male Spaces and the Benefits of Solidarity

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Drilling Deep: Jessica Green on Why We Need More Confrontation at COP

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The Corruption of COP: Inside Climate Obstruction at the UN

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Norway Beyond Oil: Climate, Policy, Society

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How Climate Obstruction Works at the Local Level

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Climate Obstruction in the Global South

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Challenging the Narratives

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Drilling Deep: Karen House on Saudi Arabia Under Mohammed bin Salman

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Abdul El-Sayed on Climate Complexities and Benevolent Masculinity

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Petroganda: How the Oil Industry Is Shaping Norway's Politics and Culture

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How the Animal Agriculture Industry Blocks Methane Regulation

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How the Coal, Utilities, and Transportation Industries Block Climate Policy

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Introducing The Black Thread: The Norwegians

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Facing Climate Despair: How to Cope with Wen Stephenson

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How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sabotages Climate Action

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How The Media Drives Climate Obstruction

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Why Misinformation Works: The Psychology Behind Climate Disinformation

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How Rightwing Populism and Accelerationism Fuels Climate Denial

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Why Political Will is the Real Barrier to Climate Action

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Drilling Deep: The Golden Age of Oil-Funded Influence with Casey Michel

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The "Carbon Dominance" Strategy Behind Trump's Anti-Renewables Actions

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Integration: Bringing Men Into the Climate Movement

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Why Is the Fossil Fuel Industry Funding Anti-Trans Politics?

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The SLAPP Heard 'Round the World: Standing Rock Verdict

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Climate Hysteria and “Boy Math”: Masculinity, Tech Fixes, and Gendered Climate Solutions

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Sacred Sites: Defending Indigenous Spaces

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How "Energy Dominance" Became a Gendered Climate Narrative

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The Testosterone Pipeline: How the Manosphere Fuels Climate Denial

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Back to the Water: Pipeline Impacts and Indigenous Concerns

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Introducing: The Outlaw Ocean | A war on migration, funded by the EU (Libya Pt. 1)

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Hanna E. Morris on Apocalyptic Authoritarianism and Media Bias

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Coming Soon: Carbon Bros—Men and Climate Denial in America

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The Charge: What Greenpeace Is Accused Of

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The Trial Begins: Jury Selection

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How We Got Here: Standing Rock, Greenpeace, and the $666 Million Lawsuit

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"All Hell Breaks Loose": How Big Oil Ruined a Small Texas Town

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Coming Soon: SLAPP'D—Corporate Power vs. Indigenous Rights

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Malcolm Harris on Realism and Radical Possibilities in the Climate Crisis

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From Damages: New Evidence and Updates on U.S. Climate Liability Cases

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How the U.S. Helped the World Label Environmentalists as "Terrorists"

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Coming Soon: The Man-o-Sphere

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New Research on Fossil Fuel Sponsored Content and Media Misleading Practices

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Shell’s Climate Case: The Win, the Loss, and What It Means for Future Global Climate Litigation

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From Fuel to Fork: How the Oil and Gas Industry Drives Food-Based Emissions

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How Climate Language Shapes Climate Politics with Genevieve Guenther

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Climate Week 2024: Taking on the Mad Men of Big Oil

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How Fossil-Funded University Research Shapes Climate Policy

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Climate and Project 2025: Mary Annaïse Heglar & Amy Westervelt on Spill

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The Battle Over the Clean Air Act

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How Big Oil Sold a “Climate Solution” and Stuck Taxpayers with the Bill

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Silencing Activists: How an El Savador Cold Case Murder Became a Tool to Criminalize Activism

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From Damages: Could Oil Companies Be Charged with Murder?

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The Great “Greening” of LNG: How Fossil Fuel Lobbying Fuels Climate Delay

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How Management Consultancies Data-Wash Climate Solutions

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The Coordinated Attack on Shareholder Activism

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Climate News Update: New Carbon Majors Report and Swiss Elders' Historic Win

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Sainte-Soline and the Government Crackdown on France’s Earth Uprisings

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The United States Anti-Renewables Movement, Explained

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Shell, Oil Colonialism, and the Ongoing Struggle of Nigeria’s Environmental Activists

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What Ecuador's Yasuní Referendum Really Means for Oil, in Yasuní and Beyond

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Introducing: Hazard NYC

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The Past, Present, and Future of Climate Protest with Dana R. Fisher

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The "EcoTerrorist" Panic

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Meet the United Nations' First Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders

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How UK Courts Became the New Battleground for Climate Protest

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What Happened At Bayou Bridge? The Other End of the Dakota Access Pipeline

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Seven Years Later: The Dakota Access Pipeline Environmental Impact Statement

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Modern-Day Bead Trading: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Co-opts Indigenous Protest in Canada

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Living on the Frontlines of War and Climate Crisis: Abeer Butmeh in Palestine

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Messy Conversations: Magatte Wade on Africa, Climate, and Free Speech

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The Tomato Soup “Controversy”: Do Disruptive Climate Protests Actually Work?

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Why Indigenous Land Defenders Face Repression

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Guyana Gas-to-Energy Project: Who Really Benefits?

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Joanna Smith on "Conspiring Against the United States" with Fingerpaint

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Living with Loss: Climate Damage in Nigeria

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How Think Tanks Paved the Way to Criminalize Climate Protest

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Vietnam's Tax Evasion Charges Are Used to Jail Climate Activists

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Australia’s State-by-State Crackdown on Climate Protest

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The Corporate Push to Criminalize Speech

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Disha Ravi on Becoming the Face of "Radical" Protest in India

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How the Media Has Helped to Criminalize Climate Protest with Evlondo Cooper

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Coming Soon: The Real Free Speech Threat

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The Next Citizens United Will Be a Climate Case

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A Legal Strategy: How Mobil Oil Fought for Corporate Free Speech

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The Panic: How Mobil Oil Changed Advertising Forever

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"Cancer Alley" Fiights Back

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The Anti-ESG Campaign Gets a Boost from RAGA

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Jake Bittle on the Complexities of Climate Migration

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Rethinking Electrification

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A Verdict

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The Turning Point: What's Next for Guyana?

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The Global Oil Rush

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ExxonMobil's Greenwashing Playbook

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Global Poverty and Global Warming

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Constitutional Violation: Guyana's Climate Lawsuit

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Unlimited Liability: The Guyanese Lawyer Taking on ExxonMobil

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The Contract: Inside ExxonMobil's Guyana Oil Deal

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The Bloom: Finding Oil in Guyana

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New Season Coming Soon: Light, Sweet Crude

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Guyana: Life Inside a Ticking Carbon Bomb

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Rep. Ro Khanna: Inside the House Climate Disinformation Investigation

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Climate RICO Lawsuit & James Hansen Sues EPA: Two Groundbreaking Cases

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Loss and Damage at COP 27

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Why Is One of Big Oil's Top Greenwashing PR Firms Handling Media for COP 27?

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COP 27: How to Neutralize Climate Disinformation

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Universities Are Saying No to Big Oil Money

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Widening the Lens of Accountability: Live with Naomi Oreskes, Jennifer Jacquet, Dr. David Michaels, Geoffry Supran, and Jessica Wentz

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Congressional Hearings on Climate Disinformation Reveal Industry PR Playbook

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West Virginia Leads on Climate Obstruction

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The Supreme Court's Continued Climate Take

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"Woke Capital": A New Front in Climate Obstructionism

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What the IPCC Really Said About Carbon Dioxide Removal

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West Virginia vs. EPA: Worst-Case Scenario and What Comes Next

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The "Culture War" Embraces Climate

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Regulating Greenhouse Gases Under TSCA

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Why Is a California Air Board Funding Natural Gas Expansion?

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Senator Whitehouse on Right-Wing Think Tanks Manipulation

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The Diaster Capitalism Response to Russia-Ukraine

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Australia's "Gas-Fired Recovery," Carbon Capture, and Greenwashing

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The Los Angeles Ports Astroturfing Scheme

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Exposing an Energy Front Group

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The New Climate Villains

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A Busload of COVID

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Climate One Collaboration: Breaking Down Climate Misinformation

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IPCC Report: Conflicts of Interest, Media Manipulation and More

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Responsibilities Not Rights: A Tūhoe Perspective

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Ecuador's Landmark Rights of Nature Ruling

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Los Cedros: The Cloud Forest vs. The Mine

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West Virginia vs. EPA: Worst-Case Scenario and What Comes Next

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A Brief History of Rights of Nature in the United States

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Drilled Presents: Damages

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The Right-Wing Web of Climate Delay

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An Update on the Youth Climate Lawsuit

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Exxon Takes Its First Amendment Battle to the Texas Supreme Court

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Reclaiming Environmentalism

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Climate Crisis, Meet Democracy Crisis

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Drilled Presents | Scene on Radio, The Repair | Episode 9: Pachamama

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The Influence Industry and Climate Obstruction

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One PR Firm Works on More Climate Obstruction Than Any Other

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Fracking the Outback: Australia's Plan to Go Big on Fracking and Plastic

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Melissa Aronczyk on the History of Greenwashing

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Climate Education in the U.S. with Katie Worth

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Fighting Back Against Big Oil in Education

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Ben Franta on Big Oil in College

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Big Oil on Campus

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Big Oil's High School Agenda

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S5 Update: Donziger Sentenced to Six Months in Jail

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How Big Oil Targets Elementary School

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The First Day of School

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Drilled + Earther: The ABCs of Big Oil

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Whack-A-Mole

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Keeping Oil Alive

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And Then There Was COVID

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Fighting Formosa in Louisiana

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Don't Mess with Texas

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Coming Soon: The Bridge to Nowhere

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Update: Steven Donziger's Trial in New York

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How Big Oil Made You Feel Guilty About Climate Change

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The Heath Impacts of the Coal-to-Gas Transition: Harvard's New Study

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Rep. Ro Khanna on Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

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Update: The Latest Developments in the Steven Donziger Case

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Corporate Personhood? What About Ecosystem Personhood

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Infrastructure Week: Build Back Better, the THRIVE Act, and Climate Justice with Kaniela Ing

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All Eyes on Weymouth: FERC Signals Interest in Environmental Justice

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How the Fossil Fuel Industry is Undermining Free Speech

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Frackalachia: The Fracking Jobs Myth in Appalachia

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The API Was Pushing Climate Denial Way Earlier Than Anyone Thought

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¿Ahora Que?: What's Next for Donziger, Chevron and Ecuador

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The Kill Step: Chevron Fights the Ecuadorian Government

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The Judge: Corruption Charges Hit the Courts

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Damages: Chevron's Shocking Racketeering Claim

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The Linchpin: Joe Berlinger

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Big Oil's Bad Bet on Plastic

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Update: Steven Donziger Faces Criminal Contempt with No Representation

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The Charge: Chevron Faces a Verdict

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The Big Guns: Chevron's Legal Offensive

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The Secret Tribunal: Chevron vs. Ecuador

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The Trial: Oil and Justice in Ecuador

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The Colonizers: How Oil and Missionaries Shaped the Amazon

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La Lucha En La Jungla: Pollution in the Amazon

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Big Oil vs. Divestment

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Bribery and Bailouts: The Ohio Utility Scandal

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The Netherlands Considers a Fossil Fuel Advertising Ban

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Fracking Giant Chesapeake Energy Declares Bankruptcy

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Minnesota and D.C. File Climate Fraud Suits

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Big Oil's Multi-Billion-Dollar Blind Spot

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From Hot Take: Yes, We Still Need to Talk About Climate

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Naomi Klein on "Disaster Capitalism" in America

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New Investigation Finds Shell Directly Funded Climate Denial

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From Hot Take: Why the GOP's "Climate Lockdown" Narrative is Wrong

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The Death of Fred Singer and the Endurance of Climate Deniers

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A Lawsuit Could Force FERC to Consider Climate Impacts of New Oil and Gas Projects

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What Planet of the Humans Gets Wrong About Climate Change

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Earth Day in Louisiana: A Petro-state Fights Back

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Art, Autodesk, and What Accountability Looks Like for the Tech Industry

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How Big Oil is Using COVID-19 to Push Plastic

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Held Hostage by Fracking: Colorado Seniors Shelter In Place

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New Research Shows Fossil Fuels Are Not As Essential As The Industry Would Like You to Believe

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Texas Shale Refineries Release "Unimaginable" Amounts of Methane Emissions

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Why ExxonMobil and Chevron Oppose a Shale Gas Bailout

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How Big Oil Exploited the COVID-19 Pandemic

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From Hot Take: Seeing Climate Through Coronavirus Glasses with David Wallace-Wells

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Tackling Disinformation: Jay Rosen & Nicholas Johnson on the Media’s Role

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Meet the Harrisons: Architects of Greenwashing and Environmental PR

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The Tobacco-Oil-Plastic Triangle

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The Origins of Corporate PR Manipulation

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Guardian Bans Fossil Fuel Ads: Emily Atkin Talks with CEO Anna Bateson

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Oil Slick, Part 2: False Equivalence and Free Speech

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Oil Slick, Part 1: Mobil's PR Mastermind and the Rise of the Corporate Persona

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Psychological Warfare and Big Oil

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The Oil-Nazi-Propaganda Triangle

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The Father of Public Relations

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Coming Soon: The Mad Men of Climate Denial

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Youth Climate Suits and Inter-generational Injustice

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ExxonMobil NY Fraud Trial Recap: What the Verdict Means for Big Oil

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Fake Reporters and Energy Blogs: How Big Oil Spins Climate News

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Big Oil Ramps Up PR Spend and Oil Production

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Facing Extinction

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David vs. Goliath

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Taking Big Oil to Court

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Two Lawsuits, One Industry: Crab Fishermen Take on Big Oil

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West Coast Crab Fisheries Face a Shaky Future

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West Coast Crab Fishermen vs. Big Oil

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Coming Soon: Hot Water

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Big Oil’s First Amendment Defense: Can Climate Denial Be Protected Speech?

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Winning the War: Fighting Back Against Decades of Climate Delay

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Climate Denial Campaigns So Successful They’re Now in Court

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The First Step to Influencing Policy: Setting Research Agendas

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Shaping Culture and Faith: How Big Oil Influenced Climate Conversations

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Weaponizing False Equivalence

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The Turn: How Big Oil Shifted from Innovation to Climate Denial

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The Bell Labs of Energy: How Exxon Led Early Climate Research

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Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: How Oil Companies Weaponized Uncertainty

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Drilled: A True Crime Podcast About Climate Change