Drilled

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A true-crime podcast about climate change. Reported and hosted by a team of investigative climate journalists, Drilled examines the various obstacles that have kept the world from adequately responding to climate change.

EPISODE 1

Denial to Delay: How Management Consultancies Data-Wash False Solutions and the Great Gas Lock-In

Fossil fuel companies can't push ideas like "low carbon gas" or overstate the emissions-reduction potential of technologies like carbon capture without the help of a whole system of folks who help them sell the idea. The role management consultancies play in that process has been largely under-covered, but today we dig into just how helpful they've been through the story of one consultancy in particular. Reporter Maddie Stone walks us through how multinational consultancy ICF, which is well known for its government climate work, also works to produce reports the fossil fuel industry uses to promote oil and gas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

36 min
EPISODE 2

Denial to Delay: The Great "Greening" of LNG

As part of our ongoing series looking into new climate problems the fossil fuel industry is peddling as solutions, we did a deep dive into the push to position liquefied natural gas—a fossil fuel—as "green" and discovered one particularly active lobbying group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

41 min
EPISODE 3

Could You Really Charge Oil Companies with Murder? Plus: Supreme Court Climate Update

This week, we bring you an episode from our climate litigation podcast, Damages, because we've been getting SO MANY emails about what sorts of legal strategies might still be available for climate accountability given everything happening at the Supreme Court. Public Citizen has been working with various prosecutors to explore the idea of using criminal law to hold oil companies accountable for climate change, but is it really viable? The group's senior climate policy counsel, Aaron Regunburg, joins us to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

37 min
EPISODE 3

Denial to Delay: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Rebranded an Oil Production Technique as a "Climate Solution" and Got Taxpayers to Foot the Bill

Carbon capture has always seemed a little scammy, but in a blockbuster investigation co-published with Vox this week, we discovered just *how* scammy. Carolyn Raffensperger, executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, joins to walk us through the many issues with the technology, from the fact that it delivers little to no climate benefit to the fact that it creates a massive new public health threat. Read more here: https://drilled.media/news/ccs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

38 min
EPISODE 4

Denial to Delay: The Battle Over the Clean Air Act

In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts vs. EPA that when the U.S. Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, climate science was “in its infancy,” implying that government officials could never have intended for the legislation to cover the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. In 2022, SCOTUS doubled down on that idea, ruling in West Virginia v EPA that since the Clean Air Act didn't explicitly talk about climate change, the EPA cannot regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Now, new historical evidence unearthed by a team of Harvard University researchers led by Naomi Oreskes calls the court's understanding of the history of climate science into question, which could have major implications for the government's ability to regulate climate-changing emissions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

32 min
EPISODE 5

Drilled Presents...Spill: Mary Annaise Heglar & Amy Westervelt on climate in this week's debate, Project 2025, and a whole lot more

This week we bring you an episode of our climate talk show, Spill, for a deep dive from Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt on what Project 2025 lays out for climate, what we might hear (and not hear) about climate in this week's presidential debate, rethinking the climate movement and politics, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

54 min
EPISODE 6

Denial to Delay: How Fossil-Funded University Research Lays the Foundation for Fossil-Friendly Policy

Drilled reporter Molly Taft joins us to talk about newly released research on fossil fuel funding of university research, and share interviews with climate disinformation researcher Geoffrey Supran, who authored one of the recent studies, and with philosopher of science Craig Callender at UCSD, which just passed a precedent-setting policy to require disclosure of funding on research. Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code DRILLED for 4 months EXTRA at https://surfshark.com/DRILLED" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1h 8m
EPISODE 7

Climate Week 2024: Finally Tackling the Mad Men of Big Oil

We first released our "Mad Men of Big Oil" season on all the pro-fossil fuel propaganda that came before climate denial, and the role the PR industry has played in helping various polluting industries shape our ideas around the economy, the environment, and the relationship between the two back in January 2020. It inspired various campaigns to clean up the industry and in 2024, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres specifically referenced the need to hold these "Mad Men fueling climate disaster" to account. At this year's Climate Week we did a special live version of this season, and figured it was a good time to re-up it. It's evergreen, and people are talking about it more and more these days. Check your feeds for Season 3 to listen to the rest! Ad Note: The first 150 of you will receive the first month of a Planet Wild membership from me for free. Click on this link https://planetwild.com/drilled, or use the code DRILLED9 later. Not satisfied anymore? You can cancel at any time. If you want to see how Planet Wild works first, check out their latest YouTube video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPbCjH45uwI&t=2s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

20 min

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Law & Order meets the climate crisis as we dig into the stories behind the hundreds of climate cases around the globe.

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In Rigged, we’ll rummage through the bag of tricks used by PR to shape the world you live in. Over the last century, these tricks have rigged the media, the government… society, really...with sometimes ridiculous, and sometimes profoundly serious effects on our democracy. This is a podcast about that war for hearts and minds right here on US soil.

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excellent

09/28/2024

dark green powers

this podcast is as crucial as it is informative. one of the best, true crime indeed.
Essential listening

02/12/2024

AMM MN

The climate is the number 1 issue we must solve, and this podcast is essential for understanding the enemies who are blocking real action.
Great information, but…

04/16/2024

gypsy climber

Great information but I found that they kept repeating voice clips from interviews and made the whole thing just drawn out for unnecessary reasons. I think they cut the episodes to be really short so they can pack as many adds in and then they keep reusing the same interview bits. I love climate science and love fighting big oil but this could have been 3 episodes with much less adds…
Must listen podcast

11/13/2023

Hduwjjwtsuejw

Love this podcast. Entertaining, informative but also highlights how scary and manipulative the fossil fuel industry is. It’s amazing story telling, but sometimes when you say story you think of fiction but terrifyingly this is all real life.
Drilled

08/30/2023

marty blatt

This is an excellent podcast. Well researched, interesting, it poses a fundamental challenge to established doctrine
Essential

08/28/2023

Andrew7892

You need to listen to the back log of this podcast. Amy does such an incredible job of exposing the mechanics of how we have been lied to for decades and the costs of those decisions by major corporations. You need to listen to this podcast to be a well-informed person! Keywords: Environment, PR, psyops, propaganda, corporate crimes, oil, petroleum, journalism, Exxon, Chevron, climate change, green energy, green transition, green new deal, history, lobbying, corporations, regulations, Steven Donziger.
Superb

08/27/2023

Ben*30

Drilled is my favorite climate podcast. The information and presentation are oth excellent. Can’t recommend enough
What a gem!

08/13/2023

journo Jeff

As a journalist who covers oil and gas globally, as well as a curious person, this podcast is simply amazing. Thanks for your hard work and great reasearch! Jeffrey Barbee
Great Podcast

07/11/2023

Geumpyhistory

Now THIS is the “a true Crime” people should be listening to. Sure, plastics have revolutionized healthcare for oils and other things. But we don’t have to use it to the degree we do. And we certainly shouldn’t be /subsidizing/ an industry which used the inflation crisis as cover to increase their profits. Enough of the soapbox. The podcast: well researched. Enjoy the different voices they have talking about the background of this stuff. Good host. Episodes could be a little longer, but that’s better than if they were drawn out just for the sake of it. As for the ads, producing podcasts and paying researchers and travel and and and does cost money. So there’s that. By all means, no more ads than now, but at least they are short.
Great start but…

08/11/2023

Jarvin20

Really enjoyed the first few episodes of the Guyana season and then randomly on episode 6 we have a professor talking about us for 30 minutes and episode 7 was about Namibia? Seemed a bit unplanned.

A true-crime podcast about climate change. Reported and hosted by a team of investigative climate journalists, Drilled examines the various obstacles that have kept the world from adequately responding to climate change.