Could You Really Charge Oil Companies with Murder? Plus: Supreme Court Climate Update

Drilled

Critical Frequency

True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to. Welcome back to Drilled. I'm Amy Westerfeld. Today we are interrupting our false solutions series
0:29.3	to bring you an episode of our sister podcast damages which is focused on climate
0:35.4	litigation. That's because I don't know if you've heard but there's some big
0:39.3	stuff that's been happening at the Supreme Court the last few weeks. A lot of it impacts climate and I wanted to talk to someone who might make us all feel a little bit better about there still being some legal options for a climate
0:56.6	accountability. That person is Aaron Reganburg, Senior Climate Policy Council for Public Citizen. Public Citizen has recently been talking about the idea of filing
1:07.1	criminal charges against oil companies related to climate change. One of those charges is homicide.
1:15.0	That's right, homicide.
1:20.0	I asked Reganburg to walk me homicide.
1:29.0	I asked Reganburg to walk me through their thinking on that charge and other criminal charges. How using criminal law might help with the giant brick wall facing us at the Supreme Court
1:36.3	and what some of the most recent Supreme Court rulings mean for climate accountability.
1:41.0	That conversation is coming up after this quick break. This episode is brought to you by Wondery American Scandal, Teapod Dome.
2:03.0	Explore the biggest political corruption scheme in U.S. history in the latest season of the podcast
2:09.8	American scandal.
2:11.8	Teapot Dome.
2:13.4	Using vivid and immersive storytelling, American scandal retraces the bribes, players, and underhanded
2:19.9	deals related to the Teapot dome scandal.
2:23.4	I think if you've listened to even a few episodes of this podcast,
2:26.3	you know that I'm a fan of historical corporate corruption scandals. This is a doozy. In 1922, newspapers reported that Secretary of the Interior
2:39.1	Albert Fall had leased federally owned oil reserves to two of the nation's wealthiest oil barons,
2:46.0	Edward Doheny and Harry Sinclair.
2:48.8	Fall had made the deals to enrich himself and all three men were charged with defrauding the US government.
2:55.8	The scandal named after one of the oil reserves in Wyoming would eventually send Sinclair to
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