The Supreme Court just heard the case that decides whether communities can sue Big Oil for the cost of extreme weather. Justice Alito recused himself, so a 4–4 tie leaves Boulder County’s lawsuit alive. David Fenton comments on the warnings that these suits could bankrupt the oil companies, why the tobacco cases are the right comparison, and why nobody gave those a chance either until a jury saw what the companies knew.

In 1959, a scientist told the American Petroleum Institute that burning fossil fuels would raise global temperatures and drown coastal cities. The industry spent the next 40 years saying the science was uncertain.

Richard Wiles of the Center for Climate Integrity has spent his career getting Big Oil's own documents in front of juries to prove they knew the damage they would cause. This episode of Agitation Nation features Wiles and Michael Greenberg of Climate Defiance on the plastics fraud, the natural gas lie, and the campaign to make the oil industry legally immune from all of it. #ExxonKnew

For decades, Ben & Jerry's sold ice cream with a mission. Then its independent board refused to keep selling in illegal Israeli settlements. Ever since, its giant corporate owners have been dismantling everything that made Ben & Jerry's what it is. When the White House turned against climate and DEI, a lot of companies dropped it fast. Ben Cohen says that tells you they never meant it. Can businesses change the world?

The Ben & Jerry's co-founder discusses grossly excessive military spending, building a business with values in its DNA, and why staying neutral in the face of injustice means taking a side. freebenandjerrys.com

00:00 They Want the Ice Cream Without the Activism
01:15 Companies That Dropped DEI Never Meant It
03:17 Build Your Values In From Day One
07:33 Ignore the Experts
10:07 Unilever Pushed Out the Board
12:32 How the West Bank Started All This
17:10 Totally Nuts: The War Budget
22:24 A Democracy for the Many, Not the Few
24:38 Speaking Out When Everyone's Scared
26:50 What's the Doughboy Afraid Of?
29:48 What a Free Ben & Jerry's Would Do
33:15 Pass the Torch