This is the final installation of a seven-part series produced in partnership with Grist as a companion to the SLAPP’d season of the Drilled podcast. You can see all seven pieces together in a beautiful layout over on Grist’s site, where you’ll also find other great climate stories. You can also find the rest of […]
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New Research: The Inherent Conflict of Interest in Carbon Markets
The allure of “verified” carbon credits is obvious, but new research finds the verification process deeply flawed by the fact that auditors are hired and paid by project developers, creating a financial incentive to sign off on dubious credits.
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The Kill Step, Part One: “They’re Waiting for Someone to Wink”
Standing Rock was an Indigenous-led movement. How did Greenpeace wind up taking the fall for it?
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The Kill Step, Part Two: “What the hell is this bullshit?
Energy Transfer tasked its security and law firms with building a RICO case against protestors almost as soon as Standing Rock began.
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Australia’s Courts Say Climate Change Is a Political Problem. The ICJ Just Made it a Legal Issue.
As Australia’s courts rule yet again that climate is outside their jurisdiction, the ICJ made it a legal obligation for countries to act on the crisis.
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Landmark Ruling Gives Paris Climate Agreement Teeth
A rare unanimous ruling from the International Court of Justice creates a pathway to hold all governments, even the climate-denying ones, legally liable for climate risk.
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“Ideological Sludge”: How New Zealand Is Quiet Quitting Climate Action
New Zealand once stood out as a world leader on climate change. In June it became the first country in the world to abandon a commitment to phase out oil, gas and coal.
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A Q&A with media scholar Hanna E. Morris on her new book, ‘Apocalyptic Authoritarianism’
In their obsession with the “moderate center” have some journalists become unwitting tools of apocalyptic authoritarianism?
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SLAPP’d: An Indigenous Nation Fights for Its Water
As Greenpeace’s anti-SLAPP hearing gets underway in Europe, a look at what Energy Transfer wanted to keep out of its North Dakota suit.
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EU vs. US Courts Face Off on Free Speech
A landmark anti-SLAPP case underway in the EU could result in a European court verdict declaring Energy Transfer’s suit against Greenpeace legal harassment even as the company seeks to collect a $666 settlement from the environmental nonprofit in the U.S.
