Interviews

Why Is Saudi Arabia Undermining COP21 When Climate Change Could Make the Gulf Uninhabitable?

GUESTS Antonia Juhasz, journalist covering COP21 for Newsweek. Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International. Asad Rehman, head of international climate for Friends of the Earth. TRANSCRIPT This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Antonia Juhasz, you have written an article for Newsweek, “Suicidal Tendencies: How Saudi […]
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Obama's Rejection of KeystoneXL Pipeline

President Obama has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline that would have moved oil from Canada’s heavily-polluting tar sands to refinery complex on the US gulf coast. Is it just a symbolic victory, or will it actually impact oil extraction? We’ll talk to analyst Antonia Juhasz. Then: a look at how an Asian mega-state is managing […]
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Alec Baldwin Dives to the Gulf Floor with Antonia Juhasz

BP recently settled civil lawsuits over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to the tune of more than 18 billion dollars. But it’s not the end of the story for the worst marine spill in U.S. history. Journalist and author Antonia Juhasz recently took a submersible to the floor of the Gulf of Mexico — closer […]
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The State of the Gulf, Five Years After the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

It’s been over five years since the Deepwater Horizon disaster – the largest offshore drilling oil spill in history. Although you can’t spot oil on the surface of the Gulf anymore, the impact of the spill is still deeply present and will be with us for years. Harper’s contributing editor Antonia Juhasz investigated the impact of […]
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