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The Big Guns: Chevron's Legal Offensive
Season 5 Episode 5
As Ecuadorian plaintiffs gain press, public support, and an endorsement from the country's president, Chevron kicks things up a notch, bringing in ne…
5 years, 5 months ago
The Secret Tribunal: Chevron vs. Ecuador
Season 5 Episode 4
In September 2009, Chevron filed an international arbitration claim against the Ecuadorian government over the Lago Agrio case. In the years since, C…
5 years, 5 months ago
The Trial: Oil and Justice in Ecuador
Season 5 Episode 3
The fight for justice in Ecuador's Amazon moves to the courtroom, while an election changes the political landscape and a global PR war kicks into hi…
5 years, 6 months ago
The Colonizers: How Oil and Missionaries Shaped the Amazon
Season 5 Episode 2
How did the Amazon's oil conflict come about in the first place? We go back to the 1960s, the early days of oil colonialism in Ecuador, when the part…
5 years, 6 months ago
La Lucha En La Jungla: Pollution in the Amazon
Season 5 Episode 1
In August 2019, an American lawyer was placed under house arrest while awaiting trial for criminal contempt, stemming from a decades-long case that b…
5 years, 6 months ago
Big Oil vs. Divestment
Season 4
TheTrump administration proposed a rule that would make it harder for financial managers to investment retirement funds in environmentally or sociall…
5 years, 7 months ago
Bribery and Bailouts: The Ohio Utility Scandal
Season 4 Episode 13
The FBI arrested Ohio House of Representatives Speaker Larry Householder for racketeering or, as the state attorney general put it, "bribery, that's …
5 years, 8 months ago
The Netherlands Considers a Fossil Fuel Advertising Ban
Season 4
An advocacy group in the Netherlands is calling for a ban on fossil fuel ads. Campaigner Femke Sleegers joins us to explain the roots of the campaign…
5 years, 9 months ago
Fracking Giant Chesapeake Energy Declares Bankruptcy
Season 4 Episode 12
Despite tax breaks, royalty cuts, and other COVID-19 incentives, Chesapeake Energy, a pioneer in the American fracking industry, has declared bankrup…
5 years, 9 months ago
Minnesota and D.C. File Climate Fraud Suits
Season 4
Two new lawsuits, in Minnesota and D.C., were filed within 24 hours of each other and allege the same thing: that fossil fuel companies misled consum…
5 years, 9 months ago