This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com

and by Drilled, a true crime podcast about climate change.

You may often wonder why oil companies spend so much money producing fuel-good ads unrelated

to what the companies actually do.

On Drilled's new miniseries, Urb, host Amy Westervelt tells the story of Urb Schmerz,

the mobile VP who got the oil guys into the corporate free speech business back in the

1970s.

Amy and Covers, how Urb's work, influenced all this nefarious fuel-good messaging from

oil companies today, and explores mobile's role in setting the legal foundation for the

expansion of corporate free speech and supreme court cases from Bolotti to Citizens United.

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Hello and welcome to the fifth episode of The Dig Presents.

It's a really hot summer, you've probably noticed.

It's clearer than ever that we need to decarbonize our economy and fast.

With that in mind, people in some states are fighting to make their electricity systems

publicly owned, meaning they would have no profit motive and could be governed directly

instead of just regulated.

One example, the Build Public Renewables Act in New York, which recently passed, will

require the state's public power provider to generate all of its electricity from carbon

free energy by 2030, helping the state meet its climate targets.

But there's one public power project in the U.S. that's been around for a while.

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