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How Big Oil is Using COVID-19 to Push Plastic
Season 4 Episode 5
A new report from the Center for International Environmental Law examines how oil, gas, and petrochemical companies are leveraging the COVID-19 pande…
5 years, 11 months ago
Held Hostage by Fracking: Colorado Seniors Shelter In Place
Season 4 Episode 4
As shelter-in-place orders went into effect, residents of Broomfield, Colorado faced exposure to flowback-driven air pollution thanks to their proxim…
6 years ago
New Research Shows Fossil Fuels Are Not As Essential As The Industry Would Like You to Believe
Season 4
Fossil fuel use has certainly grown GDP, but it has had no effect on life expectancy. In other words, the industry's "benefit" has acrrued to relativ…
6 years ago
Texas Shale Refineries Release "Unimaginable" Amounts of Methane Emissions
Season 4 Episode 3
Field investigator Sharon Wilson has spotted a troubling increase in methane emissions from refineries in the Permian Basin, in Texas. Things went fr…
6 years ago
Why ExxonMobil and Chevron Oppose a Shale Gas Bailout
Season 4 Episode 2
The American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil and Chevron have been amongst the biggest opponents to bailouts for shale gas companies as part of the c…
6 years ago
How Big Oil Exploited the COVID-19 Pandemic
Season 4 Episode 1
The oil and gas industry was headed for financial collapse long before COVID-19, but now the Trump administration wants to use the pandemic to put it…
6 years ago
From Hot Take: Seeing Climate Through Coronavirus Glasses with David Wallace-Wells
Season 3
Hot Take hosts Mary Annaise Heglar and Amy Westervelt talk to David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth and deputy editor of New York ma…
6 years ago
Tackling Disinformation: Jay Rosen & Nicholas Johnson on the Media’s Role
Season 3 Episode 9
What can be done about Big Oil disinformation now? New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen and former FCC commissioner Nicholas Johnson jo…
6 years, 1 month ago
Meet the Harrisons: Architects of Greenwashing and Environmental PR
Season 3 Episode 8
E. Bruce and Patricia Harrison launched the E. Bruce Harrison Company in 1973, working for a mix of chemical companies, oil and gas companies, and to…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Tobacco-Oil-Plastic Triangle
Season 3 Episode 7
John Hill, founder of Hill & Knowlton, was an Ivy Lee devotee who worked for Standard Oil in the 1930s, strategized against labor movements and the N…
6 years, 1 month ago