Hot Take

Hey Hot Cakes! Mary and I will be sunsetting the Hot Take feed over the coming weeks, but if you're looking for weekly coverage of climate news and culture with plenty of jokes and f-bombs mixed in, you can find it over on the Drilled feed. Starting in September whenever we don't have a narrative season running over there, we'll be bringing you weekly updates on all things climate every Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're pissed off and full of dread and tired of hiding it. Buckle up, folks, Mary and Amy get real about what's coming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will we hear anything about climate in Harris's first debate with Trump? What can we glean from Project 2025 about how Trump will approach environmental justice? Plus re-thinking the climate movement and politics, with Mary Annaïse Heglar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we bring you an episode from our climate litigation podcast, Damages, because we've been getting SO MANY emails about what sorts of legal strategies might still be available for climate accountability given everything happening at the Supreme Court. Public Citizen has been working with various prosecutors to explore the idea of using criminal law to hold oil companies accountable for climate change, but is it really viable? The group's senior climate policy counsel, Aaron Regunburg, joins us to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his new book, On the Move, ProPublica climate reporter Abrahm Lustgarten digs into the ways climate change is re-shaping where people live and how they move in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices