Welcome back to Drilled, I'm Amy Westervelt, and it has been quite a month for climate

news. A week ago, the International Energy Agency issued a shocking report for them,

saying that we need to end new fossil fuel developments. Now, not 20 years from now, not 10 years

from now. Today, this is Henry Kissinger's International Energy Agency, folks, not a bunch

of tree hugging hippies, and they're saying something that even progressive politicians

who think we should act on climate have been kind of afraid to say. That was a huge deal.

In this week, a Dutch court ordered shall to cut emissions from both its operations and its

products, 45% by 2030. That ruling sets a huge precedent for climate cases around the globe.

And shareholder meetings in the US this week didn't go the industry's way either.

ExxonMobil had to give up two board seats, two climate activist shareholders, who have vowed to push

the company away from oil and gas and toward climate action. And Chevron shareholders voted in

favor of a proposal to cut emissions generated by the company's products. Chevron shareholders

also voiced concern over the company's continued pursuit of human rights activist Stephen Donzegor,

who was in court in New York earlier this month, facing criminal contempt charges,

related to his work on the case against Chevron in Ecuador. I didn't say attorney,

Stephen Donzegor there because Chevron successfully got Donzegor disbarred last year.

If you haven't listened to our season on that case, it's a quick way to get caught up.

It's litigation that's been going on for 30 years. Today, I've got Paul Pazimino from Amazon

Watch here with an update. He was in the courtroom last week and says the judge in that case against

Donzegor seems intent on sending him to jail. That update coming up after this quick break.

Let's maybe start with just like day one showing up. What was the kind of vibe in the courtroom?

I've been working in some way on this case for 14 years. That rally, the opening day of Donzegor's

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