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Climate Week 2024: Taking on the Mad Men of Big Oil
Season 11 Episode 7
Long before outright climate denial, the fossil fuel industry relied on sophisticated PR and advertising campaigns to shape how the public understood…
1 year, 6 months ago
How Fossil-Funded University Research Shapes Climate Policy
Season 11 Episode 6
Universities can play a powerful role in shaping climate research and public policy. Drilled reporter Molly Taft joins us to talk about newly release…
1 year, 6 months ago
Climate and Project 2025: Mary Annaïse Heglar & Amy Westervelt on Spill
Season 11 Episode 5
What does Project 2025 mean for climate policy and what should we expect to hear (or not hear) about climate in this week’s presidential debate? In S…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Battle Over the Clean Air Act
Season 11 Episode 4
In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts vs. EPA that when the United States Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, climate science was …
1 year, 7 months ago
How Big Oil Sold a “Climate Solution” and Stuck Taxpayers with the Bill
Season 11 Episode 3
Carbon capture has always seemed flawed as a climate solution, but in a blockbuster investigation co-published with Vox, we discovered just how scamm…
1 year, 8 months ago
Silencing Activists: How an El Savador Cold Case Murder Became a Tool to Criminalize Activism
Season 10 Episode 19
In 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to pass an outright ban on mining to protect the country's water and people. Now, self-pro…
1 year, 8 months ago
From Damages: Could Oil Companies Be Charged with Murder?
Season 11 Episode 3
With the Supreme Court reshaping the legal landscape, we've been getting a ton of emails about what legal strategies might be available for climate a…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Great “Greening” of LNG: How Fossil Fuel Lobbying Fuels Climate Delay
Season 11 Episode 2
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is increasingly marketed as a “green” or “clean” energy solution, but the reality tells a different story. As part of our…
1 year, 9 months ago
How Management Consultancies Data-Wash Climate Solutions
Season 11 Episode 1
Fossil fuel companies can't push ideas like "low carbon gas" or oversell technologies like carbon capture alone. Management consultantancies play a c…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Coordinated Attack on Shareholder Activism
Season 10 Episode 21
The backlash against ESG continues, with a string of lawsuits aimed at shutting down shareholder activism. Andrew Behar, CEO of shareholder advocacy …
1 year, 10 months ago