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Damages

Hosted by Critical Frequency · society · EN

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Law & Order meets the climate crisis as we dig into the stories behind the hundreds of climate cases around the globe.

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33%

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Questions about Damages

What is Damages about?

Law & Order meets the climate crisis as we dig into the stories behind the hundreds of climate cases around the globe.

Who hosts Damages?

Damages is hosted by Critical Frequency. The show has published 71 episodes to date.

What has Damages covered recently?

Recent episodes include "SLAPP'd Ep 1: How did we get here?" (3 June 2025, 43 minutes), "New Drilled Season: SLAPP'd" (22 May 2025, 4 minutes), and "New Evidence and an Update on U.S. Climate Cases" (16 May 2025, 27 minutes).

How often does Damages publish?

Damages publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 39 minutes across 71 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Damages?

Booking probability for Damages is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Damages requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Damages's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch Damages?

The strongest fits for Damages are Law & Legal Services. Damages has a society audience.

About the host

Critical Frequency hosts Damages, a society podcast with 71 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Episode #1

    SLAPP'd Ep 1: How did we get here?

    Jun 3, 202543 minS6

    <p>Greenpeace, which was only tangentially involved in the Standing Rock protests, has been slapped with a $666 million bill for damages...despite the fact that the Dakota Access Pipeline was built, and has been making...

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    New Drilled Season: SLAPP'd

    May 22, 20254 minS6

    <p>This season on Drilled, an Indigenous nation fighting for its water, an international environmental movement finding its voice, and an industry attempting to crush its political opposition.</p><p> </p><p>Learn more...

  • Damages

    New Evidence and an Update on U.S. Climate Cases

    May 16, 202527 minS4

    <p>A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists compiles in one place all the documentary evidence on the role of fossil fuel companies in obstructing climate policy. We walk through the latest, and get an update...

  • Episode #5

    The Massive Climate Case that Shell Both Won and Lost, and What It Means for the Future of Global Climate Litigation

    Dec 2, 202421 minS5

    <p>In November, a Dutch court ruled in Shell's favor on an appeal in a big international climate case. It got loads of headlines around the world, but it wasn't quite the win for Shell that a lot of media coverage has...

  • Episode #4

    New Research Shows the Clean Air Act Always Intended to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    Aug 15, 202432 minS5

    <p>In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts vs. EPA that when the U.S. Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, climate science was “in its infancy,” implying that government officials could never have...

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  • Episode #17

    The Real Free Speech Threat: In El Salvador a Cold Case Murder Has Become a Weapon for Silencing Environmental Activists

    Jul 18, 202442 minS5

    <p>In 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to pass an outright ban on mining. It was an effort to protect the country's water, and its people. Now, self-proclaimed "coolest dictator in the world"...

  • Episode #3

    Could You Really Charge Oil Companies with Murder? Plus: Supreme Court Climate Update

    Jul 9, 202436 minS5

    <p>Public Citizen has been working with various prosecutors to explore the idea of using criminal law to hold oil companies accountable for climate change. In the wake of recent Supreme Court rulings, it seems smarter...

  • Episode #2

    The Coordinated Attack on Shareholder Activism

    Jun 25, 202453 minS5

    <p>The backlash against ESG is continuing, with a string of lawsuits aimed at shutting down shareholder activism. We don't often talk about shareholder activism in the vein of protecting protest, but it's absolutely...

  • Episode #1

    The New Carbon Majors Report + Swiss Elders Win Landmark Climate Case

    Apr 13, 202442 minS5

    <p>Lots of news lately on stories we've been following, so in today's episode: an update! The landmark Carbon Majors report has been updated with some surprising new data, and the European Court of Human Rights has sent...

  • Episode #16

    The Real Free Speech Threat: In Nigeria's Ogoniland, Protestors Still Fighting to Hold Oil Accompanies Accountable

    Mar 22, 202444 minS5

    <p>Shell announced in late 2023 that it would be shutting down all of its onshore activities in Nigeria and concentrating its efforts offshore. It leaves behind poisoned water, multiple political and economic crises...

  • Episode #15

    The Real Free Speech Threat: Department of Homeland Security, the Manufactured "EcoTerrorist" Panic, and Cop City

    Jan 31, 202440 minS5

    <p>The U.S. government's definition of what constitutes an "ecoterrorist" has long driven backlash against environmental activists and in recent years that definition has only broadened. Investigative reporter and...

  • Episode #14

    The Real Free Speech Threat: Meet the UN's First Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders

    Jan 31, 20241h 13mS5

    <p>In June 2022, Michel Forst became the first UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders. In that role he has spent the past year visiting various countries and speaking out about the increasingly onerous laws...

  • Episode #13

    The Real Free Speech Threat: How UK Courts Became the New Climate Protest Battleground

    Jan 28, 202434 minS5

    <p>About a decade after UK courts made history with the first "climate necessity" ruling in history, the UK government has passed new laws that not only restrict what protesters can do, but also how protesters are...

  • Episode #12

    The Real Free Speech Threat: What Happened At Bayou Bridge? The Other End of the Dakota Access Pipeline

    Jan 27, 202445 minS5

    <p>While protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation garnered international news coverage, at the southern end of the pipeline, cops moonlighting as pipeline security were...

  • Episode #11

    The Real Free Speech Threat: Seven Years Later, an Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline

    Jan 27, 202438 minS5

    <p>In December 2023, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed the comment period on its draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,172-mile pipeline that’s been pumping 500,000 barrels of...

  • Episode #10

    The Real Free Speech Threat: The Fossil Fuel Industry Meets Indigenous Protest with "Redwashing" and Repression in Canada

    Jan 27, 202444 minS5

    <p>As we resume our season focused on the global criminalization of climate protest, reporter Martha Troian brings us to Canada, where the Wet'suwet'en people have been fighting for years against a gas pipeline they...

  • Episode #9

    The Real Free Speech Threat: On the Tomato Soup "Controversy"

    Jan 27, 202432 minS5

    <p>Globally, climate activism has shifted over the past few years. It’s more constant now and includes more direct action than ever before. Some of that action has critics, including climate scientists and climate...

  • Episode #8

    The Real Free Speech Threat: In Brazil, A Tale as Old as Colonization—Why Indigenous Land Defenders Are Particularly Targeted by Extractive Industries

    Jan 27, 202429 minS5

    <p>From Ecuador to North Dakota, British Columbia to New Zealand, the backlash against Indigenous-led environmental protest is always particularly harsh, infused with colonialist entitlement to land, water, and other...

  • Episode #7

    The Real Free Speech Threat: Joanna Smith on "Conspiring Against the United States" with...Fingerpaint

    Jan 27, 202450 minS5

    <p>In April 2023, Joanna Oltman Smith walked into the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. with fellow activist Tim Martin, and smeared water-soluble kids' finger paint on the glass display case containing a Degas...

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    Damages Recommends: Outrage and Optimism—How to Talk About Climate So That People Will Listen

    Oct 24, 202359 minS4

    <p>Welcome to Outrage + Optimism, where they examine issues at the forefront of the climate crisis, interview change-makers, and transform anger into productive dialogue for building a sustainable future.</p><p>In this...

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