HEATED

Oct 02 2024 16 ep. 28 mins 24

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A podcast for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis.

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JD Vance’s cowardly climate denial

Oct 02 2024 6 mins

Sometimes, being a climate reporter feels like being in a twisted version of Groundhog Day. Every time you think the world has finally moved beyond debating whether climate change is real or fake, you wake up to find that the day has reset—and a white guy with oil money seeking power pushed the button.Last night, JD Vance pushed the button while thousands of Americans were suffer

Why are Republicans so obsessed with refrigerators?

Sep 23 2024 11 mins

Over the last year, Republicans have begun championing a new and novel environmental cause. It’s not the air; it’s not the water; it’s not the climate crisis. It’s refrigerators. Apparently they’re getting way too efficient. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heated.world/subscribe

MAGA's scariest environmental proposal

Sep 17 2024 13 mins

The blueprint for Trump’s second term envisions deregulating ubiquitous and carcinogenic “forever” chemicals. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heated.world/subscribe

Stacey Abrams wants YOU (to go electric)

Mar 24 2023 8 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit heated.worldIn our full interview with Stacey Abrams, we dive deeper into her personal and professional experience with climate change; details of the electrification incentives in the IRA; the potential challenges with ensuring equity in electrification; and her views on the role of fossil fuels in a net zero future. We

Listen to our interview with Rep. Ro Khanna

Sep 21 2022 33 mins

It is very difficult to get television news networks to tell climate change stories—especially ones that place the blame on fossil fuels. The House Oversight Committee’s ongoing investigation into Big Oil, and its role in misleading the American public about climate change, is an example.According to Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), who is leading the investigation with committee Chairwo

How banks finance the climate crisis

Apr 07 2021 28 mins

Today’s newsletter is a collaboration with Emily Holden at Floodlight, a new non-profit news organization dedicated to investigating the corporate and ideological interests holding back climate action. ICYMI, we ran an interview with Holden about Floodlight’s launch last month.Our article today investigates how decision-makers at major banks have conflicts of interest on climat

Three climate feminists walk into a bar

Oct 12 2020 26 mins

Good afternoon everyone! Happy Monday and Happy Indigenous Peoples Day. Today being a federal holiday, I wasn’t intending to send out a newsletter. But it turns out, the newsletter I sent on Thursday—my interview with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson, the editors of All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis—never actually sent. So I�

"Back to normal" is a death trap

May 11 2020 33 mins

Early this morning, I came across an article in Axios that I did not like. The headline: “Clean energy and climate change unlikely to lead American recovery.”Written by columnist Amy Harder, the article argues that significant climate and clean energy policy won’t make it into Congress’s next coronavirus economic relief package.“Reality check,” she writes: “Such prosp

An interview with MSNBC's Ali Velshi

Apr 17 2020 42 mins

Below is a written transcript of Episode 6 of the HEATED podcast, out today on all your podcast apps, or at the audio file at the top. My guest is MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi. This is the last episode of our limited-run mini series on COVID-19 and climate change! Next week, HEATED’s publishing schedule will return back to normal. Free subscribers will get at least one email a week, a

Oil crumbles, Mary Heglar shines

Apr 15 2020 37 mins

Today’s newsletter contains the audio and edited transcript for Episode 5 of the HEATED podcast, out today on all your podcast apps. My guest is climate justice essayist and Columbia University writer-in-residence Mary Heglar. But before we get into that, I want to talk real quick about what’s happening to the oil industry.I keep hearing these January and February quotes from C