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The End of an Era and the Start of Something New Aug 17, 2026

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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.

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This Is Bullsh*t Nov 26, 2024

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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.

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Mary + Amy's Debate Preview: What Project 2025 Tells Us About Trump, What Harris Is and Isn't Saying About Climate, and More Sep 09, 2024

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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

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Could You Really Charge Oil Companies with Murder? Plus: Supreme Court Climate Update Jul 09, 2024

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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.

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ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten on Climate Migration Jun 25, 2024

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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.

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John Kasper: A Guy Who Sucked May 30, 2024

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Over the years we've talked a lot about the intersection between civil rights and climate change. Now Mary Annaïse Heglar has a novel out (her first!) that lives in that intersection and it's fascinating. On this episode she brings us the story of a guy who fought the desegregation of schools, and why it's important to remember the many ways in which the fight for climate action and the fight for racial justice overlap.

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Maddie Stone on Microsoft's Role in the Climate Crisis May 08, 2024

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In a new story co-published by Grist and Drilled, Microsoft employees who spent years fighting the tech giant's oil ties are speaking out about theworker-led effort to get the world's most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill.

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Welcome to Spill and Happy Earth Day: Freeing Palestine Is a Climate Issue Apr 22, 2024

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Hot Take co-hosts Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt are back with a new show blending climate news updates and cultural commentary, plus a monthly Hot Take-style conversation. In our first episode: what else? A conversation about the intersection between the war on Gaza and the climate crisis.

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Climate News Update: The New Carbon Majors + Swiss Elders Win Landmark Climate Case Apr 16, 2024

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Lots of news lately on stories we've been following, so in today's episode: an update! The landmark Carbon Majors report has been updated with some surprising new data, and the European Court of Human Rights has sent down an historic ruling that will shape how EU legislators look at energy and climate.

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Slow Factory's Céline Semaan on Climate Justice, Collective Liberation, and Building an Unbreakable Movement Apr 02, 2024

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When Celine Semaan began calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, she was surprised at the backlash she and her team at Slow Factory got, including multiple funders pulling their support. Today, Semaan is more determined than ever to push for climate justice and collective liberation.

Pre-order A Woman Is a School: https://shop.slowfactory.earth/products/a-woman-is-a-school
Check out course(s) on Open Edu: https://slowfactory.earth/open-edu

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