A Guyanese judge shocks the world with a blistering ruling against Exxon and the government.
Sarah Ventre
Sarah Ventre is an award-winning audio journalist and senior producer with a focus on religion and the environment. Ventre is best known for her work as host of Unfinished: Short Creek, a podcast about a fundamentalist Mormon community on the Utah-Arizona border named one of the best podcasts of 2020 by The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Her reporting has received an Edward R. Murrow Award, a Wilbur Award, multiple Religion News Association Awards, and an Ambie Award nomination. Sarah has also produced for NPR, PBS, Gimlet, and Campside Media, and is a Regional Producer for The Moth. She's also a journalism fellow with the Recovering Truth project from the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, and a fellow with Boston University's Religion & Environment Storytelling Project. Sarah is based in New York.
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S8, Ep7 | The Global Oil Rush
What’s happening in Guyana is happening throughout the Global South.
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S8, Ep6 | Old-School Greenwashing
Why Guyana’s environmental organizations are supporting an offshore drilling project.
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S8, Ep5 | On Global Poverty and Global Warming
How the utter failure of international climate negotiations and global development funding has left Global South countries reliant on fossil fuel development to pay for climate adaptation.
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S8, Ep4 | Constitutional Violation
New plaintiffs argue the oil project undermines their constitutional right to a healthy environment.
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S8, Ep3 | Unlimited Liability
A lawyer steps in to challenge the risks the government is taking.
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S8, Ep2 | The Contract
After asking for years, journalists finally see Guyana’s contract with Exxon
