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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.

06/03/2025

SLAPP'd Ep 1: How did we get here?

Greenpeace, which was only tangentially involved in the Standing Rock protests, has been slapped with a $666 million bill for damages...despite the fact that the Dakota Access Pipeline was built, and has been making Energy Transfer millions of dollars for years. How did we get here? Cody Hall, an Indigenous water protector who was a key figure during the Standing Rock protests and was initially also targeted in Energy Transfer's suit, walks us through how things went down back in 2016 and 2017, and where this suit began. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

43 min
SEASON 6 TRAILER

New Drilled Season: SLAPP'd

This season on Drilled, an Indigenous nation fighting for its water, an international environmental movement finding its voice, and an industry attempting to crush its political opposition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4 min
05/16/2025 · BONUS

New Evidence and an Update on U.S. Climate Cases

A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists compiles in one place all the documentary evidence on the role of fossil fuel companies in obstructing climate policy. We walk through the latest, and get an update on climate cases in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

27 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

21 min
08/15/2024

New Research Shows the Clean Air Act Always Intended to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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

30 min
07/18/2024

The Real Free Speech Threat: In El Salvador a Cold Case Murder Has Become a Weapon for Silencing Environmental Activists

In 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to pass an outright ban on mining. It was an effort to protect the country's water, and its people. Now, self-proclaimed "coolest dictator in the world" Nayib Bukele wants to bring mining back to boost the economy, which took a major hit thanks to his embrace of Bitcoin as the national currency in 2021. The activists who helped pass the ban are standing in his way. The solution? Accuse them of a decades-old unsolved murder. The activists go on trial this week. Reporter Sebastian Escalon brings us this story, narrated by Yessenia Funes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

40 min
07/09/2024

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

Public Citizen has been working with various prosecutors to explore the idea of using criminal law to hold oil companies accountable for climate change. In the wake of recent Supreme Court rulings, it seems smarter than ever to explore the remedies offered by criminal law, 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

34 min
06/25/2024

The Coordinated Attack on Shareholder Activism

The backlash against ESG is continuing, with a string of lawsuits aimed at shutting down shareholder activism. We don't often talk about shareholder activism in the vein of protecting protest, but it's absolutely part of the story. Andrew Behar, CEO of shareholder advocacy group As You Sow, joins us to explain what's going on, and why anyone who cares about basic rights needs to be tuning into the ESG fight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

53 min

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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.

4.6 (2220)

SOCIAL SCIENCES
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.

4.8 (46)

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04/27/2022

Parky1017

The reporting delivered by Amy and all the shows contributors is exceptional. This show delivers for the planet and people, and I believe the world would be a much better place if everyone heard what they had to share, then acted.
Lose the sounds

06/26/2024

podcast7

Amy I really want this information, but PLEASE loose the annoying doodly-doot under your voice. Maddening…..why? Some of the best climate journalism around ruined by “sound design”. Distracting and so annoying it often feels like the sounds are the show and the talkers are the background. Today during a clip of Walter Cronkite from the 80s I removed my EarPods to listen for a chopper over the house, but no, an obnoxious sound was playing under his voice. Why do you feel the need to augment such great reporting this way? I have deleted podcasts part way through as it is so annoying. Please stop!
Ads are punishing

01/28/2024

afugior

This is a great podcast, but there is a threshold where I will listen to ads and where the podcast is the ad and my brain says “no, absolutely not”. This one crosses the threshold.
Another great show from Amy!

03/18/2022

monstrz

I’ve been a big fan of Drilled for a few years, and I’m thrilled by this spin-off. While Drilled can be a bit overwhelming (though certainly interesting), it’s great to learn more about a possible shift in perspective that could provide a positive path forward.