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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.

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36:41

The ABCs of Big Oil | Ep 4: We're Going Streaking

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2021/10/15

We're wrapping up our series with Earther this week, with a look at how fossil fuel companies influence curricula and research at the university level. (Also working on a bonus episode on solutions to this problem, stay tuned for that!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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30:36

The ABCs of Big Oil | Ep 3: High School

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2021/10/08

In the third episode of our mini-series with Earther, we head to high school, where the fossil fuel industry's efforts to shape Americans' thinking on economics and policy really ramps up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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39:33

S5 Update: Donziger Sentenced to Six Months in Jail

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2021/10/03

Steven Donziger, the attorney who's been on house arrest for more than two years on a contempt charge that arose as a result of his work on the Chevron-Ecuador case, was sentenced Friday October 1st. Judge Loretta Preska handed down the maximum sentence, six months in jail. She also denied bail. Donziger's legal team is appealing both the conviction and the denial of bail, and he remains at home on house arrest pending those appeals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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26:06

The ABCs of Big Oil | Ep 2: Elementary School

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2021/10/01

Since the 1920s, oil companies have been creating music, activities, coloring books, comic books, movies and more to shape how American kids think about society, the economy, and the environment. Today, we look at their efforts in elementary school. Read more: www.earther.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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46:16

Presenting Scene on Radio, Season 5: The Repair

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2021/10/01

Drilled host Amy Westervelt is co-hosting this season of the documentary podcast Scene on Radio, all about the climate crisis—what drove it and what could propel the world out of it. If you like what you hear in episode 1, you can keep listening here: http://www.sceneonradio.org/the-repair/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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40:47

The ABCs of Big Oil | Ep 1: First Day of School

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2021/09/24

Fossil fuel companies didn't start infiltrating schools when climate change appeared on the scene, they were there shaping the minds of future citizens for decades before then. The industry has been laying the groundwork for inaction on climate since long before this crisis reared its ugly head, limiting how Americans are allowed to think about the environment and the economy. In this first episode of our new miniseries with Earther, Dharna Noor and Amy Westervelt look at how Big Oil first got into

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3:26

Drilled + Earther Present: The ABCs of Big Oil

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2021/09/13

In this collaboration with Earther, we look at the fossil fuel industry's influence in school—not just in shaping our understanding of environmental problems, but also in narrowing the spectrum of solutions we're allowed to consider. Earther reporter Dharna Noor co-hosts, and we'll be bringing you a four-part series over the next several weeks. Subscribe so you won't miss it! And make sure to check out the Earther site for complementary posts and web bonuses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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28:15

S6 Part 1 | Plastic Pipelines | Ep 5: Whack-a-Mole

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2021/09/13

In the final episode of part 1 in our Bridge to Nowhere season, we look at the chronic whack-a-mole problem in frontline communities. Just as one facility gets shut down or cleaned up, another is waiting to take its place. In a lot of ways, the plastic problem itself is a whack-a-mole issue catalyzed by progress in shifting away from fossil fuels in the transport and building sectors. How can policy makers and activists predict and prevent these sorts of problems? Learn more about your ad choices

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20:22

S6 Part 1 | Plastic Pipelines | Ep 4: Keeping Oil Alive

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2021/08/06

The team at UnEarthed, an investigative journalism project funded by Greenpeace in the UK, went undercover and got ExxonMobil execs on tape talking through the company's climate playbook in detail. Today, an unpublished part of that report, in which a former Exxon lobbyist details the company's and the industry's plans on plastics.More from UnEarthed:Watch the ExxonMobil video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNFBjcrU5Pc&ab_channel=GreenpeaceUnearthedRead the story:

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24:34

S6 Part 1 | Plastic Pipelines | Ep 3: And Then There...

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2021/07/30

Just as the fossil fuel industry was starting to worry about demand for single use plastics, along comes a global pandemic that they could leverage to push more of the stuff. And they did! But was it enough to save them entirely? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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29:03

S6 Part 1 | Plastic Pipelines | Ep2: Erasing the...

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2021/07/23

Diane Wilson couldn't keep Formosa out of her town, but down the coast in Louisiana the community in St. James Parish, led by Sharon Lavigne, is fighting like hell to keep them out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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27:44

S6 Part 1 | Plastic Pipelines | Ep 1: Don't Mess with...

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2021/07/16

This time we're doing something a little different: a season in three parts, all about the gas industry and how it's managed to embed itself into society. First up, Part 1 Plastic Pipelines: A look at how the fracking boom led to a plastics boom, through the story of one petrochemical company operating on the Gulf Coast, and the two women—one in Texas, the other in Louisiana—taking them on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:55

Welcome to S6: The Bridge to Nowhere

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2021/06/17

A new season about the natural gas industry, presented in three parts. Coming soon, Part 1: Pipelines to Plastic about the direct connection between the fracking boom and the plastics boom, told through the story of Formosa Plastics, a company with an environmental record so bad it couldn't get permits in its own country so it searched the globe for a new home, with weaker environmental regulations, and found it in the American South. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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22:09

Update: Donziger's Trial in New York

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2021/05/27

Steven Donziger went to trial for the criminal contempt charge that's kept him on house arrest for 600 days and counting. Paul Paz Y Mino of Amazon Watch brings us an update on the trial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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21:31

Climate Guilt, Brought to You by Big Oil

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2021/05/17

A new study from Harvard science historians Naomi Oreskes and Geoffrey Supran points to the use of language targeted specifically to downplay the reality of climate change and shift responsibility entirely onto consumers. Geoffrey Supran, the lead author on the study, joins to discuss.Study: https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(21)00233-5Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/climate-change-exxonmobil-harvard-study-1169682/ Learn more about your ad choices

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20:11

New Study: The Health Impacts of the Coal-to-Gas...

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2021/05/11

A new study out from Harvard University explores the health impacts of transitioning from coal to other combustible fuels. The findings are important for climate policy, particularly the fact that biomass is a huge contributor to air pollution despite representing only a small percentage of energy generation and that natural gas still contributes significantly to air pollution and its associated health impacts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:50

Rep Ro Khanna on Fossil Fuel Subsidies

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2021/04/22

It's Earth Day 2021 and the first Congressional hearing of the day is focused on fossil fuel subsidies. Their elimination was written into Biden's infrastructure bill, and House Democrats want to make sure that provision stays in the bill. Today's hearing will detail what those subsidies are, why getting rid of them is critical to climate action, and how the government can pull it off without raising the cost of living for average Americans.Watch the hearing at 10am ET:

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32:39

S5 Update: Latest on Donziger's Case

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2021/04/17

Steven Donziger, the American attorney we profiled in S5 is scheduled for trial May 10th, but his lawyers have filed another motion to dismiss, alleging vindictive prosecution. Karen Savage joins for an update on this story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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40:22

Corporate Personhood? What About Ecosystem Personhood

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2021/04/10

We talked about rights of nature a bit in the Ecuador-Chevron season, the Latin American country was the first in the world to integrate the concept of rights of nature in its Constitution. Now the Constitutional Court is reviewing its first rights of nature case. U.S. communities are pursuing the idea as well, and the fossil fuel industry is trying to block rights of nature laws from ever passing. Josh Boaz Pribanic and Melissa Troutman, co-founders of Public Herald join to talk about their new

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30:46

Infrastructure Week! Build Back Better, THRIVE, and...

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2021/03/31

The Biden Administration has rolled out its Build Back Better plan and it includes a lot of progressive wishlist items, but the left is still pushing for more scale. The THRIVE Act, reintroduced by Sen Markey and Rep Dingell last month is what they're pushing towards and Peoples Action Climate Justice director Kaniela Ing joins to walk us through the asks, and what he's hearing from folks on the ground.Learn

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