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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

Fernanda Hopenhaym, member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights  [https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/wg-business/members#:~:text=Ms.%20Fernanda%20Hopenhaym%20is%20Co%2DExecutive,America%20dedicated%20to%20corporate%20accountability.]walks Drilled senior global climate justice reporter Nina Lakhani through the many legal pitfalls companies getting involved in the United States seizure of the Venezuelan oil industry might be facing. Check out the longer story on our website. [https://drilled.media/news/hopenhaym]   See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

How Climate Protest Backlash Led to Present-Day Repression

It's easy to feel like climate "doesn't matter" as the United States descends into fascism, as if climate and democracy are somehow separate issues. Researcher Oscar Berglund [https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Oscar-Berglund-2742b53a-dfd3-416a-af8d-13655e3f1a6b/] and Amy Westervelt connect the dots between the global backlash to climate protest and the broader repression we're seeing in supposedly democratic countries around the world.   See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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

In More and More and More [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/464145/more-and-more-and-more-by-fressoz-jean-baptiste/9781802067316], Jean-Baptiste Fressoz shows that the human history of energy is one of accumulation, not substitution. Here, he talks to reporter Adam Lowenstein [https://www.adaml.blog/] about how the "energy transition" frame got so entrenched, why clean-energy innovation is not the same thing as decarbonization, how the fossil fuel industry helped launder pipe dreams of dysfunctional technologies into mainstream climate “solutions”, and much more (and more and more).   See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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

When activists Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya take drastic measures to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, they have no idea that a shadowy private security contractor called TigerSwan has them in its sights.  Special thanks to: Alleen Brown and The Intercept (https://theintercept.com/2018/12/30/tigerswan-infiltrator-dakota-access-pipeline-standing-rock/ [https://theintercept.com/2018/12/30/tigerswan-infiltrator-dakota-access-pipeline-standing-rock/]) You Strike A Match by Julia Shipley (https://grist.org/protest/dakota-access-pipeline-activists-property-destruction/) Democracy Now (https://www.democracynow.org/ [https://www.democracynow.org/]) Be the first to know about Wondery’s newest podcasts, curated recommendations, and more! Sign up now at https://wondery.fm/wonderynewsletter [https://wondery.fm/wonderynewsletter]   See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Drilling Deep: John Vaillant on Climate Change and Wildfire

Wildfires are becoming more intense, frequent, and destructive as the climate heats up. Drilled reporter Royce Kurmelovs [https://www.roycekurmelovs.com/]and Canadian author John Vallaint, [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/58679/john-vaillant/] author of Fire Weather [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554938/fire-weather-by-john-vaillant/], discuss the climate-fire nexus.   See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.