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Big Oil's High School Agenda
Season 7 Episode 3
We head to high school, where the fossil fuel industry's efforts to shape Americans' thinking on economics and policy ramps up.
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4 years, 6 months ago
S5 Update: Donziger Sentenced to Six Months in Jail
Season 5
Steven Donziger, the attorney who's been on house arrest for more than two years on a contempt charge that arose as a result of his work on the Chevr…
4 years, 6 months ago
How Big Oil Targets Elementary School
Season 7 Episode 2
Since the 1920s, oil companies have been creating music, activities, books, movies, and more to shape how American elementary-school aged kids think …
4 years, 6 months ago
The First Day of School
Season 7 Episode 1
Long before climate change appeared on the scene, fossil fuel companies were in America's classrooms, shaping young minds. Dharna Noor and Amy Wester…
4 years, 6 months ago
Drilled + Earther: The ABCs of Big Oil
Season 7
Alongside Earther reporter Dharna Noor, this multi-part series will explore the fossil fuel industry's influence in schools—shaping our understanding…
4 years, 7 months ago
Whack-A-Mole
Season 6 Episode 5
Frontline communities are facing a whack-a-mole problem: as one facility gets shut down, another pops up. In many ways, the plastic problem itself is…
4 years, 7 months ago
Keeping Oil Alive
Season 6 Episode 4
Investigative journalism project UnEarthed, funded by Greenpeace in the United Kingdom, captured ExxonMobil execs talking through the company's clima…
4 years, 8 months ago
And Then There Was COVID
Season 6 Episode 3
Just as the fossil fuel industry was starting to worry about demand for single use plastics, along comes a global pandemic that they could leverage t…
4 years, 8 months ago
Fighting Formosa in Louisiana
Season 6 Episode 2
Diane Wilson couldn't keep Formosa Plastics out of her Texas town, but down the coast in St. James Parish, Louisiana, Sharon Lavigne is fighting like…
4 years, 8 months ago
Don't Mess with Texas
Season 6 Episode 1
How did the fracking boom lead to a plastics boom? We examine how the gas and plastics industries have embedded themselves in society through the sto…
4 years, 8 months ago