Lifting The Lid on Ecocide with Journalist Lylla Younes
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Robert welcomes Lylla Younes, senior staff writer at Grist on to the the podcast. Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.
Here Lylla covers environmental investigations and environmental justice. She was previously a reporter and developer at ProPublica, where her work mapping cancer-causing industrial pollution in Louisiana helped lead to the suspension of Formosa Plastic's permit in St. James Parish, and won the 2020 Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting. In 2020, she was part of a team that wrote a peer-reviewed paper linking COVID deaths to air pollution.
In this episode Robert and Lylla discuss a wide range of topics and some of her her articles, including how Berkeley became the first city in the United States to ban natural, fossil gas hook-ups in new buildings.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode with fully charged podcast. This is slightly shorter |
| 0:11.9 | than usual this episode because I guess today was under a very tight deadline. It was amazing |
| 0:17.8 | that she found the time to talk to us because she is incredibly busy. Today I was real |
| 0:23.6 | perfect to meet and chat with her. She's an extraordinary young woman. Laila Euness is a |
| 0:31.1 | senior staff writer at Griff. It's really good. It's worth looking up. I read a lot of stories |
| 0:38.1 | on Griff's. So Griff covers climate change, renewables, you know, that whole area, |
| 0:44.5 | which is where she is now writing regularly and coming out with amazing stories. She used to work |
| 0:51.2 | what write for pro-publica, which is these are all non-profits. That's how they're described in |
| 0:58.3 | the United States and it's likely confusing for us. So they are organizations that don't have |
| 1:05.0 | shareholders and have to have funding billions of funding from vicious venture capitalist and |
| 1:12.8 | people like that. They function on a goodwill of their readers and viewers. They're a bit like |
| 1:19.2 | fully charged up to a point. Well, no, up to every point. So in a way, we got that similarity. |
| 1:25.5 | I'm not really helping explain about Grist because there's one of the things we talk about. So |
| 1:32.0 | Willick, that gets explained a little bit better by Laila rather than me. And she's a proper journalist. |
| 1:39.8 | As you will discover in this episode, she's a proper journalist who doesn't jump to crazy |
| 1:45.6 | conclusions, speculative nonsense. She investigates. She looks at data. She breaks down stories |
| 1:53.3 | in terms of what's actually happening with using actual measurements of the real world scientific |
| 1:59.3 | analysis of things that are going on. She's particularly focused on the chemical industry in the |
| 2:04.4 | United States and the impacts that has. And it's the same old story. And it's a thing we |
| 2:10.3 | mentioned in this, but it is important to really underline that. But it's it's absolutely |
| 2:15.6 | traditional that where people who are poor, people of color will tend to be pushed and end up |
| 2:24.0 | living is next to large chemical plants, large oil refines, where the air, the water and the |
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