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Responsibilities Not Rights: A Tūhoe Perspective
Season 7 Episode 17
When Tūhoe negotiated legal personhood for their ancestral homeland Te Urewera, the global rights of nature community cheered. But in this conversati…
4 years ago
Ecuador's Landmark Rights of Nature Ruling
Season 7 Episode 16
In our last episode, we explored Ecuador's rights-of-nature journey. Today, Melissa Troutman and Joshua Pribanic, directors of Invisible Hand and co-…
4 years ago
Los Cedros: The Cloud Forest vs. The Mine
Season 7 Episode 15
Ecuador made history as the first country to adopt rights of nature into its constitution, but its Constitutional Court—Ecuador’s equivalent to the U…
4 years, 1 month ago
West Virginia vs. EPA: Worst-Case Scenario and What Comes Next
Season 7 Episode 14
The Supreme Court is taking its time in releasing a ruling in the controversial West Virginia vs. EPA case. We explore the roots of the case, its pos…
4 years, 1 month ago
A Brief History of Rights of Nature in the United States
Season 7 Episode 13
Rights of nature first started making its way into U.S. courtrooms via an unlikely source: Disney. Today it's a huge threat to the fossil fuel indust…
4 years, 1 month ago
Drilled Presents: Damages
Season 7 Episode 12
Damages follows the hundreds of climate lawsuits currently happening all over the country, first examining rights of nature cases all over the world.…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Right-Wing Web of Climate Delay
Season 7
Right-wing funders don't only work on climate denial, voter suppression, or attacks on public schools—they tackle all of it together. Lisa Graves, an…
4 years, 2 months ago
An Update on the Youth Climate Lawsuit
Season 7 Episode 11
In the 2015 case Juliana v. United States, 21 young adults sued the United States for knowingly driving and exacerbating climate change. In 2021, the…
4 years, 2 months ago
Exxon Takes Its First Amendment Battle to the Texas Supreme Court
Season 7 Episode 10
Guardian journalist Chris McGreal breaks down ExxonMobil's attempt to claim lawsuits that hold the company accountable for climate disinformation amo…
4 years, 2 months ago
Reclaiming Environmentalism
Season 7 Episode 9
For decades, the fossil fuel industry has successfully framed environmentalists as silly, radical, elitist, or out of touch. And for too long, the cl…
4 years, 3 months ago