Climate Change is a Crime: Meet the Criminals

Richard Wiles

On this episode of Agitation Nation, host David Fenton talks with Richard Wiles of the Center for Climate Integrity and climate activist Michael Greenberg of Climate Defiance about the more than 30 lawsuits now seeking to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for decades of climate disinformation. Wiles explains what the industry's own internal documents show, from a 1959 warning to the American Petroleum Institute through the 1990s "Victory Memo," why plastic recycling was a fraud from the start, and how the first wrongful death case tied to a specific heat wave is moving forward in Washington State. They also discuss the industry's campaign for federal legal immunity and the Supreme Court argument set for October 5.