Before we get started today, a quick note about another show.

I know you probably care about climate change if you're listening to this podcast,

so I want to recommend another one that's sharing some of the most powerful ideas about the climate crisis.

It's called Countdown, and it's part of Ted's Global Initiative to Champion and Accelerate Solutions to the Climate Crisis,

turning ideas into action.

With talks from Prince William, Decarbonization Strategist Monica Aureia, Environmental Activist,

Severn Kullis Suzuki, and many, many more.

You can check out Countdown wherever you listen to podcasts,

and stick around after this episode to hear a clip from the show on why climate justice can't happen without racial justice.

You're watching ABC7 News at 11.

Two activists spearheading a landmark class action lawsuit against Chevron are receiving the world's most prestigious environmental honor today.

Pablo Fajardo and Luis Yanzo are accepting the Goldman prize in San Francisco today.

It is for their efforts to make Chevron clean up what some environmentalists call the world's worst oil-related disaster.

This is a clip from the documentary crewed the real price of oil about the Chevron mitigation in Ecuador.

This particular scene shows what happened when Ecuadorian attorney Pablo Fajardo and activist Luis Yanzo came to San Francisco to accept the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Remember we mentioned this a couple episodes back.

Tonight Chevron is fighting the claim, and the two men who they say have made up their story for their own financial gain.

They're frankly a group of con men that have put one past the Goldman's and have been putting it past the media for quite some time now too.

We mentioned last time that one of the many subpoenas that Chevron's attorney Randy Mastro filed,

and Chevron brought on his firm Gibbs and Dunn to help with their defense, was for outtakes from this film crewed.

It was a big moment in the case, and today we're going to dig into it in detail with the documentary's filmmaker Joe Burlinger.

Burlinger is a pioneering documentary filmmaker who's made several groundbreaking films both before and since crewed, including Paradise Lost, Brothers Keeper, Metallica, some kind of monster,

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