Drilled | thatpart | save and share podcast clips
Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled Drilled

Drilled

Critical Frequency

Available on

A true-crime podcast about climate change. Hosted by award-winning investigative journalist Amy Westervelt and reported by a team of climate journalists, Drilled investigates the various obstacles that have kept the world from adequately responding to climate change....

Latest Episode

Parts

Videos

    The U.S. Anti-Renewables Movement, Explained

    <p>Late last year, Brown University's Climate and Development Lab put out a comprehensive report looking at the opposition to wind energy on the east coast of the U.S., called...

    Slow Factory's Céline Semaan on Climate Justice, Collective Liberation, and Building an Unbreakable Movement

    <p>When Céline Semaan began calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, she was surprised at the backlash she and her team at Slow Factory got, including multiple funders pulling their s...

    Nearly 30 Years After the Ogoni 9 Tragedy, Nigerians Are Still Resisting Oil Colonialism

    <p>Shell announced in late 2023 that it would be shutting down all of its onshore activities in Nigeria and concentrating its efforts offshore. It leaves behind poisoned water...

    Messy Conversations: How to Talk to Kids about Climate Change, with Mary Annaïse Heglar — a Mini Hot Take Reunion!

    <p>Mary Annaïse Heglar's first book is out today, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-world-is-ours-to-cherish-a-letter-to-a-child-mary-annaise-heglar/20116517?ean=97805...

    What Ecuador's Yasuní Referendum Really Means for Oil, in Yasuní and Beyond

    <p>Last year, headlines all over the world proclaimed victory for the environment: finally, after more than a decade of promises, there would be no more drilling in Yasuní Nat...

    Introducing: Hazard NYC

    <p>Check out the limited-run series Hazard NYC from The City, all about how climate change intersects with Superfund sites in New York City. Start with episode one here: https...

    Dana R. Fisher on the Past, Present and Future of Climate Protest

    <p>In her new book <a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/saving-ourselves/9780231557870"><em>Saving Ourselves</em></a><em>, </em>Dana R. Fisher compiles years worth of resear...

    Messy Conversations: Rhiana Gunn-Wright on What the Climate Movement Loses When It Excludes Environmental Justice

    <p>Rhiana Gunn-Wright was one of the architects of the Green New Deal, and today works as the climate policy director for the Roosevelt Institute. In this episode we get into ...

    Department of Homeland Security, the Manufactured "EcoTerrorist" Panic, and Cop City

    <p>The U.S. government's definition of what constitutes an "ecoterrorist" has long driven backlash against environmental activists and in recent years that definition has only...

    Meet the UN's First Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders

    <p>In June 2022, Michel Forst became the first UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders. In that role he has spent the past year visiting various countries and speakin...

    How UK Courts Became the New Climate Protest Battleground

    <p>About a decade after UK courts made history with the first "climate necessity" ruling in history, the UK government has passed new laws that not only restrict what proteste...

    What Happened At Bayou Bridge? The Other End of the Dakota Access Pipeline

    <p>While protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation garnered international news coverage, at the southern end of the pipeline, c...

    Seven Years Later, an Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline

    <p>This month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closes the comment period on its <a href="https://www.nwo.usace.army.mil/Missions/Dam-and-Lake-Projects/Oil-and-Gas-Development...

    Weaponizing Uncertainty, with Vox's Unexplainable

    <p>With everyone arguing—again—about what science tells us the COP28 negotiations should be aiming for if we want to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, it's a great ti...

    Modern-Day Bead Trading: The Fossil Fuel Industry Meets Indigenous Protest with "Redwashing" and Repression in Canada

    <p>As we resume our season focused on the global criminalization of climate protest, reporter Martha Troian brings us to Canada, where the Wet'suwet'en people have been fighti...

    Messy Conversations: Akshat Rathi on Climate Capitalism

    <p>Bloomberg's Akshat Rathi joins us to make the case that capitalism can be harnessed in service of addressing the climate crisis.</p><p> </p><p>Learn more about your ad choi...

    Abeer Butmeh: Living on the Front Lines of a War and the Climate Crisis, in Palestine

    <p>Abeer Butmeh, coordinator of the Palestinian NGOs Network, one of the most important Palestinian environmental organizations, spoke to senior editor Alleen Brown about batt...

    CBC Podcast Playlist: Straight to the Source

    <p>We're bringing you an episode of the CBC's Podcast Playlist today, featuring Drilled! In this episode, host Leah-Simone Brown talks to hosts of three shows (including this ...

    Messy Conversations: Magatte Wade, Atlas Network's Center for African Prosperity

    <p>We'll be back with the rest of our anti-protest season soon, but in the meantime, welcome to a new Drilled miniseries we're calling "Messy Conversations," getting into all ...

    The Tomato Soup "Controversy"

    <p>Globally, climate activism has shifted over the past few years. It’s more constant now and includes more direct action than ever before. Some of that action has critics, in...

    Drilled Recommends: Outrage + Optimism — ‘How to talk about climate change so people will listen’ with John Marshall

    <p>Welcome to Outrage + Optimism, where they examine issues at the forefront of the climate crisis, interview change-makers, and transform anger into productive dialogue for b...

    In Brazil, A Tale as Old as Colonization: Why Indigenous Land Defenders Are Particularly Targeted by Extractive Industries

    <p>From Ecuador to North Dakota, British Columbia to New Zealand, the backlash against Indigenous-led environmental protest is always particularly harsh, infused with colonial...

    The Same Australian Think Tanks That Have Pushed Against Climate Policy for Years Say No to Indigenous Rights

    <p>Australia's Voice referendum once enjoyed bi-partisan support of more than 60%. But since an aggressive No campaign began in April 2023, that support has plummeted. The fol...

    Guyana Update: Gas to Energy for Guyana, or Problem to Profit for Exxon?

    <p>A new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) looks at the details of Guyana's planned "Gas to Energy" project and finds mostly benefi...

    Joanna Smith on "Conspiring Against the United States" with Fingerpaint

    <p>In April 2023, Joanna Oltman Smith walked into the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. with fellow activist Tim Martin, and smeared water-soluble kids' finger paint on the...

    Loss Is on the Calendar in Nigeria

    <p>From our pals over at Inherited, in today’s episode, <a href="https://yr.media/inherited-bios/mo-isu/">Mo Isu</a> looks at one of the reasons climate activists all over the...

    Meet the Shadowy Global Network Vilifying Climate Protestors

    <p>It’s no coincidence that the backlash against climate protest looks the same from country to country. Not only is industry sharing tactics across borders, but also the Atla...

    In Vietnam, Tax Evasion Charges Help Lock Up Climate Activists

    <p>President Biden made his first trip to Vietnam as President this week, with the intention of "upgrading" diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Vietnam. Not on the agend...

    In Australia, A State-By-State Approach to Criminalizing Climate Protest

    <p>Since the 2019 passage of the "Dangerous Attachment Devices" bill in response to anti-coal protests in Queensland, Australia's states have moved quickly to follow suit.</p>...

    The Corporate Push to Criminalize Speech

    <p>There's a lot of discourse happening about free speech in the context of "cancel culture" these days, but precious little coverage of the push all over the world to crimina...

    Disha Ravi on Becoming the Face of "Radical" Protest in India

    <p>When she was just 22, Disha Ravi, co-founder of Fridays for Future in India, had police show up at her home, borrow a pen and paper to write an arrest warrant on the spot, ...

    How the Media Has Helped to Criminalize Climate Protest, with Evlondo Cooper

    <p>Media Matters senior researcher Evlondo Cooper put out a fascinating study earlier this month looking at how the media has covered climate activism. In today's episode we l...

    Outside/In: When Protest Is a Crime, Part 1

    <p>In the lead-up to our season on the criminalization of protest we're bringing you part 1 of this excellent two-part Outside/In episode looking at this issue in the U.S.</p>...

    Introducing Our New Season: The Real Free Speech Threat

    <p>Around the world, climate and other environmental protestors are being harassed, attacked, and arrested at an alarming rate. Laws are being passed that levy life-altering p...

    The Climate Impacts of Deep-Sea Mining

    <p>Some mining companies claim that we can't "electrify everything" without deep-sea mining—a claim that has been debunked by various scientists. Environmentalists, car compan...

    Herb, Ep 3: The Next Citizens United Will Be a Climate Case

    <p>In more than 30 climate cases making their way through U.S. courts today, oil companies are using an argument they've been laying the legal groundwork for since the 1970s: ...

    Herb, Ep 2: A Legal Strategy

    <p>Worried that all their work creating Mobil's personality and a multi-pronged issue advertising campaign to go with it would go to waste if the TV networks deemed it all "pr...

    Drilled Presents, Inherited S3: Youth Climate Stories From Around the World

    <p>In the Season 3 premiere of Inherited, host Shaylyn Martos introduces us to storyteller Camara Aaron, who shares a personal story of family loss, structural resilience, and...

    Herb, Ep 1: The Panic

    <p>In the 1970s, Mobil Oil had invented the advertorial and was aggressively pursuing an entirely new type of marketing, branding the company as a person with a unique persona...

    Industry Backlash to Grassroots Organizing in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"

    <p>ExxonMobil, Chevron and other petrochemical giants are increasingly organizing against grassroots environmental justice activism in Louisiana that are part of the <a href="...

    The Anti-ESG Campaign Gets a Boost from RAGA

    <p>Ever since the Securities and Exchange Commission announced its intention to make Environmental Social and Governance metrics actually mean something to investors, pollutin...

    Bingeworthy Interview with Amy Westervelt of Drilled

    <p>This week Amy's on the other side of the mic in an interview with Samantha Hodder, who writes the excellent Bingeworthy newsletter, all about narrative podcasts. The newsle...

    Drilled Presents: Living Planet on Disinformation

    <p>Living Planet is a podcast and radio program from Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle (DW). Hosted by Charli Shield and Sam Baker, each week Living Planet r...

    Jake Bittle on the Complexities of Climate Migration

    <p>Jake Bittle's book <em>The Great Displacement</em> looks at how extreme weather events are likely to drive Americans to move from one part of the country (or their state) t...

    Thea Riofrancos on Tackling Transition and Consumption

    <p>Electrification offers an opportunity to rethink how we use energy and how we get around. Researcher Thea Riofrancos wants to see the U.S. seize that opportunity and set th...

    Drilled presents: The Carbon Copy on the War Over Gas Stoves

    <p>We’re sharing an episode from a podcast we love called <a href="https://www.canarymedia.com/podcasts/the-carbon-copy"><em>The Carbon Copy</em></a>. In January 2023, a new s...

    Drilled presents: MongaBay Explores the Congo Basin: The "Heart of the World" Is at a Turning Point

    <p>The Congo Basin contains the world’s second-largest rainforest at a staggering 178 million hectares (just under 440 million acres). It is also one of the biggest carbon sin...

    S8 Bonus: A Verdict

    <p>The day after our season finale last week, we got some incredible news from Guyana: the High Court ruled against the oil company and the government in the big insurance cas...

    S8 Ep8 | The Turning Point

    <p>In the last episode of our "Light, Sweet Crude" season we look at what's next for Guyana, and for other Global South countries grappling with poverty and climate change at ...

    S8 Ep7 | The Global Oil Rush

    <p>What's happening in Guyana isn't just happening there. All over the globe, oil companies are racing to tap as many of the remaining fossil fuel reserves as they can. This w...

    S8 Ep6 | Old-School Greenwashing

    <p>When we first started reporting this story, people unfamiliar with it would suggest talking to local environmental groups. Surely they would have something to say about a m...

    S8 Ep5 | On Global Poverty and Global Warming

    <p>The tension between addressing global poverty and acting on the climate crisis is one the fossil fuel industry, and those who carry water for it, have been increasingly lea...

    S8 Ep4 | Constitutional Violation

    <p>Melinda Janki has filed seven separate cases aimed at blocking oil drilling in Guyana, but only one of them explicitly names climate change as a problem the project is guar...

    S8 Ep3 | Unlimited Liability

    <p>One person in Guyana knows both the inner workings of oil companies and the intricacies of Guyanese environmental law better than most. Melinda Janki grew up in Guyana, but...

    S8 Ep2 | The Contract

    <p>After a year’s worth of pressure from local press and civil society groups, the Guyanese government released its contract with ExxonMobil to the public in December 2017. Th...

    S8 Ep1 | The Boom

    <p>Five years ago, Kiana Wilburg was a new reporter when ExxonMobil executives and Guyanese government officials announced they had found oil 40 miles offshore. Wilburg and he...

    Origins of Climate Denial: The New World War

    <p>A new <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063">peer-reviewed study in the journal Science </a>shows exactly how accurate oil company scientists' climat...

    Origins of Climate Denial: Campaigns So Successful They've Landed in Court

    <p>A new <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063">peer-reviewed study in the journal Science </a>shows exactly how accurate oil company scientists' climat...

    New Season Coming Soon: Light, Sweet Crude

    <p>On paper, the small South American country of Guyana is the fastest-growing economy in the world, thanks to its oil boom. The country started shipping barrels of oil in 201...

    Origins of Climate Denial: Setting the Research Agenda

    <p>A new <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063">peer-reviewed study in the journal Science </a>shows that not only did Exxon scientists suspect climate ...

    Origins of Climate Denial: Aggressive Think Tanks, Shouty Pundits, and a New Religious Argument

    <p>A new <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063">peer-reviewed study in the journal Science </a>shows that not only did Exxon scientists suspect climate ...

    Origins of Climate Denial: Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite—Certainty

    <p>A new <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063">peer-reviewed study in the journal Science </a>shows that not only did Exxon scientists suspect climate ...

    Origins of Climate Denial: Weaponizing False Equivalence

    <p>A new <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063">peer-reviewed study in the journal Science </a>shows that not only did Exxon scientists suspect climate ...

    Origins of Climate Denial: The Turn

    <p>A new <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063">peer-reviewed study in the journal Science </a>shows that not only did Exxon scientists suspect climate ...

    Exxon Was Right: The Bell Labs of Energy

    <p>A new <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063">peer-reviewed study in the journal Science </a>shows that not only did Exxon scientists suspect climate ...

    Life in a Ticking Carbon Bomb

    In this special sneak preview of our next season, we hear from Melinda Janki, a lawyer who's fighting to keep her home country of Guyana from becoming one of the world's large...

    Rep Ro Khanna on the House Oversight Committee's Climate Disinfo Investigation and a Whole New Batch of Documents

    The House Oversight Committee wrapped up its investigation into climate disinformation earlier this month and published a second tranche of revealing internal documents that s...

    Truck Manufacturers Are Lobbying Against Emissions Reductions In the U.S.

    A new report from Influence Map shows that despite all their talk of "clean trucks," truck manufacturers are lobbying heavily against emissions reductions at both the state an...

    First Climate RICO Filed + James Hansen Sues EPA

    November was a big month for climate litigation! The first-ever climate RICO was filed on behalf of 16 Puerto Rican municipalities, plus a cohort of scientists and researchers...

    Loss and Damage, Minus the Fossil Fuels As Development Myth

    Loss and damage was a big focus of #COP27 and, ultimately, one of the few things global negotiators could agree on. But media coverage of loss and damage has left out a lot of...

    How American Climate Denial Fueled Canada's Tar Sands, with Geoff Dembicki

    Investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki's new book The Petroleum Papers looks at the fascinating history of climate denial in Canada, and how denial built a bridge between the...

    Why Is One of Big Oil's Top Greenwashing PR Firms Handling Media for COP27?

    COP27 is underway in Egypt. Everyone agrees that the stakes have never been higher so why is longtime fossil fuel industry greenwasher Hill + Knowlton handling media for the c...

    COP 27 Will Be a Climate Disinformation Inflection Point: Here's How to Neutralize It

    The annual Conference of the Parties —a global meeting of negotiators and heads of state to discuss a path forward on climate action—is coming up in a little over a week. Hist...

    Universities Are Starting to Say No to Fossil Fuel Funding

    Beginning with Standard Oil of New Jersey (now Exxon) in the late 1940s, oil companies have invested heavily in universities, not just to fund engineering programs and, eventu...

    Widening the Lens of Accountability, with Naomi Oreskes, Jennifer Jacquet, Dr. David Michaels, Geoffrey Supran, and Jessica Wentz

    Taped live at the Harvard Faculty Club, an interview with Naomi Oreskes about her forthcoming book "The Big Myth," focused on the origin story behind free-market ideology, fol...

    Three Congressional Hearings on Climate Disinfo Bring New Industry Documents to Light

    Three Congressional hearings shone a light on climate disinformation this week, with one looking at oil companies' role, another looking at the role of PR firms, and a third l...

    West Virginia Is Giving Texas a Run for Its Money on Climate Obstruction

    From its state treasurer to its attorney general to its Senator, West Virginia is leading the charge on climate obstruction and dismantling environmental regulation.<p> </p><p...

    SCOTUS Will Continue to Weigh in On Climate: Here's What's Coming Next

    West Virginia v EPA isn't the only big climate case before the Supreme Court this year, from questioning the SEC's disclosure rules to major Clean Water challenges there's a l...

    A New Front in Climate Obstructionism: State Treasurers?

    Jesse Coleman, senior investigator for Documented, joins to walk us through an eye-opening investigation into the State Financial Officers Federation, an obscure group organiz...

    Here's What the IPCC Report Actually Said About Carbon Dioxide Removal

    Everyone else might have moved on but we're still plodding through the latest IPCC report over here. Carbon dioxide removal, or CDR, came up all over this report, and because ...

    West Virginia v EPA : Worst-Case Scenario and What Comes Next

    The Supreme Court is dragging its feet releasing a ruling in the controversial West Virginia v EPA case. Today we look at the roots of that case, its position in the rightwing...

    The "Culture War" Embraces Climate

    Jennie King, lead author of a new report on climate disinformation from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, joins to discuss the report's findings, including the way various...

    As a Supreme Court Decision Hanging in the Balance, a Novel Argument: Regulate Greenhouse Gases Under TSCA

    As we wait to hear whether the Supreme Court will toss WV v EPA altogether or apply the major questions doctrine to broadly rule against the EPA regulating greenhouse gases, p...

    S6 Bonus: Why Is a California Air Board Funding Natural Gas Expansion?

    Floodlight's Miranda Green is back with a new story about the push for natural gas in southern California. This time an air board tasked with cleaning up pollution is giving m...

    False Friends of the Court: Why Every Rightwing Think Tank Has an Amicus Program, with Senator Whitehouse

    I have been wondering for months what possible sense it makes for every right-wing think tank to have an amicus program. I mean...is any judge really surprised to learn that t...

    S6, Part2 | Ep 5: The Disaster Capitalist Response to Russia-Ukraine

    In the response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the gas industry is now fully embracing it's new role. Right alongside the API, Chevron, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the...

    Bonus: As Australia Heads to the Polls, a Look at Morrison's "Gas-Fired Recovery," Carbon Capture, and Greenwashing

    This weekend Australians will vote in the first national election since catastrophic bushfires burned tens of millions of acres and blanketed the country in smoke for weeks. I...

    S6, Part 2 | Ep 4: Epic Astroturfing

    Even before the gas industry got into the front group business it was using some questionable tactics to stave off electrification. In this episode, LA Times energy reporter S...

    S6, Part2 | Ep3: Anatomy of a Front Group

    A year after San Luis Obispo took the lead in Southern California on a gas ban, the coastal town of Santa Barbara was evaluating a similar proposal, and residents were being...

    S6, Part 2 | Ep 2: The New Climate Villains

    For more than a decade, even environmental advocates promoted the idea of fossil gas as part of the solution on climate change. But while it did help to reduce dependency on c...

    S6, Part 2 | Ep 1: A Busload of COVID

    In April 2020 when San Luis Obispo announced a plan to become the first city in Southern California to ban gas in new buildings, the region's utility SoCal Gas--the largest ga...

    Climate One Collaboration: Breaking Down Climate Misinformation

    Fossil fuel companies and others have spent decades casting doubt on climate science to allow them to continue to profit. As documented by climate communication expert John Co...

    Conflicts of Interest, Debunking Demand, Media Manipulation & More | IPCC Report, Part One

    The IPCC mitigation report dropped this week and it is a *doozy*. We'll be digging into it throughout the month of April to help you make sense of it all. <br><br>Read more: <...

    Responsibilities Not Rights: A Tuhoe Perspective

    When Tūhoe negotiated legal personhood for their homeland Te Urewera, the global rights of nature community cheered. But in this conversation about how the case connects to ri...

    A Landmark Ruling in Ecuador

    Last episode we told the story of Ecuador's rights-of-nature journey, today Melissa Troutman and Joshua Pribanic, directors of Invisible Hand and co-founders of the journalism...

    Los Cedros: The Cloud Forest v. The Mine

    Ecuador was the first country to adopt rights of nature into its constitution, but its Constitutional Court (Ecuador’s equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court) has not heard ma...

    West Virginia v EPA and What It Means for Climate Policy

    A case argued at the Supreme Court this week—West Virginia v EPA—has potentially huge implications for regulating greenhouse gas emissions. NYU law professor Richard Revesz an...

    A Brief History of Rights of Nature in the U.S.

    Rights of nature first started making its way into U.S. courtrooms via an unlikely source: Disney. Today it's a huge threat to the fossil fuel industry. So much so that the in...

    Drilled Presents: Damages

    Damages is following the hundreds of climate lawsuits currently happening all over the country. First up, in Season 1, a look at rights of nature cases all over the world. In ...

    The Right-Wing Web of Climate Delay, with Lisa Graves

    Right-wing funders don't just work on climate change, or voter suppression, or attacks on public schools, they tackle all of it together. In this episode, expert Lisa Graves t...