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Rhiana Gunn-Wright was one of the architects of the Green New Deal, and today works as the climate policy director... more

Bloomberg climate reporter Akshat Rathi joins us to discuss his new book Climate Capitalism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit... more

Lots of news lately on stories we've been following, so in today's episode: an update! The landmark Carbon Majors report... more

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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... more

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In the Season 3 premiere of Inherited, host Shaylyn Martos introduces us to storyteller Camara Aaron, who shares a personal... more

For our last episode of Hot Take, Amy and Mary revisit their favorite jokes, and dig into the listener mailbag... more

This week, Amy and Mary discuss zombie ice viruses, the Keystone pipeline spill in Kansas, a global biodiversity crisis, the... more

This week, Amy and Mary chat with Rebecca Nagle - an Indigenous journalist, host of This Land, and long-time friend... more

Just in time for the holiday season, Amy and Mary chat with Aja Barber - a writer, stylist and consultant... more

Amy and Mary break down this year's COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, and explore the history of U.N. climate conferences... more

This week on Hot Take, Amy and Mary break down the midterms, examine the shadowy billionaires funding Republican candidates, and... more

This week on Hot Take, Amy and Mary speak with Rhiana Gunn-Wright - Director of Climate Policy at the Roosevelt... more

This week on Hot Take, Amy and Mary pick apart the climate implications and nuances in key midterm races (Fetterman,... more

This week on Hot Take, Mary is joined by Sara Sneath, investigative reporter and alligator doula and Drew Costley, climate... more

This week on Hot Take, Amy & Mary discuss the new wave of Southern Black Democrats running on climate centric... more

This week on Hot Take, Amy & Mary talk to Olúfemi Táíwò, author and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown,... more

This week on Hot Take, Amy & Mary give updates on Hurricane Ian, Manchin's failed permitting bill, discontent in Europe,... more

Today on Hot Take, Mary and Amy are joined by Kate Marvel, climate scientist at NASA, who answers listener questions... more

We hear all the time that acting on climate can upset the delicate balance of the economy, worsen inflation, kills... more

For this week’s Hot Take Labor Day special, Mary and Amy look into the connections between labor unions and the... more

This week on Hot Take, Mary and Amy talk to Abrahm Lustgarten about how colonialism, both in the past and... more

This week, Mary and Amy are joined by Evlondo Cooper, a journalist at media watchdog - Media Matters, to chat... more

Tune into Hot Take this week, where Mary and Amy take a much needed break by watching TV! They look... more

Amy and Mary cut through the noise to break down the good and the bad in the climate legislation that... more

This week, Mary and Amy break down the latest in climate news from - the Inflation Reduction Act, the possibility... more

This week, Mary and Amy are joined by investigative journalist Alleen Brown to take a closer look at mass incarceration.... more

This week, Joe Manchin spiked Biden's climate bill, but the planet is no political football. This week's episode of Hot... more

Today on Hot Take is all about resilience—and the limits thereof. Mary talks with two fellow southerners - Ko Bragg,... more

This week on Hot Take, we’re off! But, we’ve brought you an episode from one of our favorite shows -... more

Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary sit down with Leah Litman, a law professor from our sister show -... more

Today on Hot Take, Amy and Yessenia Funes, Climate Director of Atmos Magazine, discuss queerness and climate justice, recent elections... more

Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary talk to Sara Sneath, New Orleans-based investigative journalist of Floodlight, about exactly what... more

Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary discuss the recent Republican “climate plan”, the Democratic primaries, heatwaves, a special fossil... more

Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary talk with The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer about the future of US politics and... more

Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary sit down with writer Alicia Kennedy to discuss the Netflix documentary, Bad Vegan.... more

Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary talk with Rebecca Solnit about our patriarchy problem, the leaked Supreme Court draft... more

Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary talk with David Wallace-Wells about the lessons we can learn from Covid-19, the... more

Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary revisit why Joe Biden is struggling with Gen Z, and they talk about... more

Amy and Mary sit down with Kate Aronoff, climate reporter at The New Republic, to talk about wtf nationalization means.... more

Hot Take is officially BACK! And in their very first episode as part of the Crooked Media network, Amy and... more

The climate crisis is literally the world’s biggest existential problem. But we can’t even begin to solve it if we... more

In our S3 finale we talk about the very bad month Big Oil had in May, how much the climate... more

Pro Publica healthcare reporter Caroline Chen joins us to talk about her experience navigating that minefiled, where public health and... more

Journalist Maddie Stone joins us to talk about Silicon Valley (yes, also the HBO series) and Big Tech's approach to... more

We missed the 10-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, so on the 11-year anniversary we're going big: It's #FUBPday.... more

In this crossover episode with The Coolest Show, Rev Yearwood takes us to school and church with an in-depth conversation... more

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