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06/25/2024

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

06/25/2024

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36 min
12/02/2024

The Massive Climate Case that Shell Both Won and Lost, and What It Means for the Future of Global Climate Litigation

In November, a Dutch court ruled in Shell's favor on an appeal in a big international climate case. It got loads of headlines around the world, but it wasn't quite the win for Shell that a lot of media coverage has made it out to be. Although it walked back some things, the court reaffirmed a key component of the original ruling: that Shell is legally required to reduce its global emissions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12/02/2024

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21 min
07/03/2024

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

07/03/2024

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41 min
SEASON 11 BONUS

Coming Soon: The Man-o-Sphere

Introducing…our first podcast crossover season! Later this year we’ll be bringing you a season in collaboration with the podcast Non-Toxic, hosted by journalist and culture critic Daniel Penny, about the intersection between masculinity and climate. In this episode we introduce Daniel and his work, and talk a bit about what you can expect from this season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season 11 Bonus

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26 min
07/30/2024

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

07/30/2024

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38 min
07/09/2024

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

07/09/2024

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37 min
08/28/2018

Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: Certainty

In addition to using journalists' views on their own objectivity against them, oil companies exploited various weaknesses in science, namely scientists' tendency toward not prioritizing or valuing good communication skills, and their absolute refusal to be certain about anything. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/Drilled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

08/28/2018

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16 min
08/29/2018

The Bell Labs of Energy

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Exxon wanted to be the Bell Labs of energy. It hired brilliant scientists who conducted cutting-edge research on everything from the "greenhouse effect" to renewable energy. At the time, there was bipartisan support around the idea of tackling global warming, and a sense that American innovation was up to the task. To see the documents referenced in this episode, check out the timeline on drilledpodcast.com. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/Drilled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

08/29/2018

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19 min
MAR 21

New Research: The Advertorials Many Media Outlets Make for Oil Companies Are Misleading, But They Don't Have to Be

We have covered before how the fossil fuel industry created the advertorial and how it continues work with media on the modern incarnation: sponsored content, created by the media outlets themselves. To be clear, it’s outlets’ internal brand studios that write op-eds, craft slide shows and videos, and produce podcasts for fossil fuel companies, not their editorial staff. But these services are explicitly marketed as a way to make corporate content mirror the editorial content in style and approach, and when it comes to fossil fuel advertisers it often directly contradicts what the editorial staff is reporting. In late 2023, we published a report detailing the many examples of this and delving into the peer-reviewed research that shows how misleading this practice is to readers. This week, one of the researchers who has contributed the most to that body of evidence, Dr. Michelle Amazeen, at Boston University, published a new study looking at why this practice is particularly misleading on social media, and what media outlets might be able to do to make it less so. She joins us to speak about that research. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 21

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19 min
09/20/2024

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

09/20/2024

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1h 8m

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.

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

The Massive Climate Case that Shell Both Won and Lost, and What It Means for the Future of Global Climate Litigation

Denial to Delay: The Great "Greening" of LNG

Coming Soon: The Man-o-Sphere

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

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

Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: Certainty

The Bell Labs of Energy

New Research: The Advertorials Many Media Outlets Make for Oil Companies Are Misleading, But They Don't Have to Be

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

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

S1 Ep5 | Fun with Front Groups

S1 Ep4 | The Birth of SponCon

Manoomin v. Minnesota

S5Ep3 | The Trial (Ad-Free)

Loss Is on the Calendar in Nigeria (Ad-free)

Seven Years Later, an Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline (Ad-Free)

The ABCs of Big Oil | Ep 4: We're Going Streaking (Ad-free)

S6, Part 2 | Ep 4: Epic Astroturfing

Meet the UN's First Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders (Ad-Free)

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

The Massive Climate Case that Shell Both Won and Lost, and What It Means for the Future of Global Climate Litigation

Denial to Delay: The Great "Greening" of LNG

Coming Soon: The Man-o-Sphere

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

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

Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: Certainty

The Bell Labs of Energy

New Research: The Advertorials Many Media Outlets Make for Oil Companies Are Misleading, But They Don't Have to Be

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

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

S1 Ep5 | Fun with Front Groups

S1 Ep4 | The Birth of SponCon

Manoomin v. Minnesota

S5Ep3 | The Trial (Ad-Free)

Loss Is on the Calendar in Nigeria (Ad-free)

Seven Years Later, an Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline (Ad-Free)

The ABCs of Big Oil | Ep 4: We're Going Streaking (Ad-free)

S6, Part 2 | Ep 4: Epic Astroturfing

Meet the UN's First Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders (Ad-Free)

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