A Guyanese judge shocks the world with a blistering ruling against Exxon and the government.
Latin America + Caribbean
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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
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La Lucha en la Jungla
An audio and digital series focused on “La Lucha en la Jungla—the Rumble in the Jungle” between Chevron/Texaco and various indigenous groups in Ecuador. Over the course of ten episodes and several articles we trace the early days of oil colonialism in Latin America to a case that brought the largest environmental settlement in history, […]