Article 674YG "The Quest to Defuse Guyana's Carbon Bomb": Meet the Environmental Lawyer Taking On ExxonMobil

"The Quest to Defuse Guyana's Carbon Bomb": Meet the Environmental Lawyer Taking On ExxonMobil

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We speak with Guyanese environmental lawyer Melinda Janki about how she's taking on the oil giant ExxonMobil to stop the company from developing an offshore oil field that would turn Guyana into a carbon bomb." Guyana is currently a carbon sink, but Exxon plans to produce more than 1 million barrels of oil a day, which could transform the South American country into one of the world's top oil producers by 2030. Janki is suing the Guyanese government and Exxon under the constitution's guarantee of a healthy environment to both current and future citizens. Her legal battle is profiled in a new article in Wired, The Quest to Defuse Guyana's Carbon Bomb," written by independent journalist Antonia Juhasz, who also joins us.

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