Drilled
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.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 213
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Special Episode—Hot Take: Seeing Climate Through Coronavirus Glasses with David Wallace-Wells
Drilled will be back with bonus episodes soon. In the meantime, check out one of our other climate podcasts, Hot Take. In this episode, hosts Mary Annaise Heglar and Amy Westervelt talk to David Wall…
01:35:48 |
Wed 25 Mar 2020
S3, Ep 9: Jay Rosen and Nicholas Johnson on What the Media Can Do About Disinformation
This season we've traced the creation of Big Oil's big propaganda machine. In this episode, the season finale, we look at what can be done about it now that it has delivered us into an era of disinfo…
00:31:22 |
Sat 29 Feb 2020
S3, Ep 8: Meet the Harrisons
E. Bruce and Patricia Harrison launched the E. Bruce Harrison Company in 1973 and ran it until 1996, working for a mix of chemical companies, oil & gas companies, and tobacco companies. E. Bruce is c…
00:30:45 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
S3, Ep 7: John Hill and the Tobacco-Oil-Plastic Triangle
John Hill, founder of Hill & Knowlton, was an Ivy Lee devotee who worked for Standard Oil in the 1930s, strategized against labor movements and the New Deal, and wound up representing the American Pe…
00:26:35 |
Thu 27 Feb 2020
S3, Ep 6: Manipulating the Masses and Predicting the Future—Edward Bernays and W. Howard Chase
Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, coined the term "public relations" when propaganda started to become a negative term. His specialty was using psychological know-how to manipulate the masses a…
00:28:34 |
Tue 25 Feb 2020
We Interrupt This Podcast for New Research + Emily Atkin and Guardian CEO Anna Bateson on Banning Fossil Fuel Ads
We'll be back with more Mad Men tales next week, we promise! While we're out chasing leads, listen to this great interview from Emily Atkin with The Guardian's interim CEO Anna Bateson about that pub…
00:24:15 |
Tue 18 Feb 2020
S3, Ep 5: Oil Slick, Part 2—False Equivalence and Free Speech
In part two of our episode on former Mobil VP Herb Schmertz, we dig into how Schmertz's approach bred false equivalence, and why he pushed so hard for the extension of First Amendment rights to corpo…
00:17:18 |
Tue 11 Feb 2020
S3, Ep 4: Oil Slick, Part 1—The Rise of the Corporate Persona
Mobil Oil's longtime PR guy Herb Schmertz really started to aggressively manipulate the media. He introduced so many new bells and whistles to Big Oil's propaganda apparatus, we're going to stay with…
00:21:17 |
Tue 04 Feb 2020
S3, Ep 3: Psychological Warfare, Astroturfing, and Another Tobacco-Oil Connection
Daniel Edelman learned the tools of his trade combating Nazi propaganda in WWII, then came home and put his psychological warfare training to work for American industry, including tobacco and Big Oil…
00:22:26 |
Tue 28 Jan 2020
S3, Ep 2: The Oil-Nazi-Propaganda Triangle
Ivy Lee worked with Standard Oil and the Rockefellers for the rest of his life, helping to establish the American Petroleum Institute in 1919, and working for the company's various joint ventures as …
00:23:14 |
Tue 21 Jan 2020
S3, Ep 1: The Father of Public Relations
In this season we're tackling Big Oil's big propaganda machine—its origins, the spin masters who created it, and why it's been so effective. It all began more than 100 years ago with Standard Oil, Jo…
00:16:23 |
Tue 21 Jan 2020
S3: The Mad Men of Climate Denial
Big Oil gave Hitler propaganda tips decades ago and their PR machine has only grown from there. This season we dig into the history of fossil fuel propaganda and the few "Mad Men of climate denial" w…
00:02:59 |
Thu 05 Dec 2019
Youth Climate Suits and Inter-generational Injustice
In the Juliana vs. The United States case, a group of young people sued the government for incentivizing increased fossil fuel dependence, thereby robbing the next generation of the pursuit for life,…
00:27:38 |
Thu 28 Nov 2019
Recap: ExxonMobil's New York Fraud Trial
New York's fraud trial against ExxonMobil closed November 7th. Reporter Emily Gertz and Union of Concerned Scientist's Kathy Mulvey watched it closely and bring us their takes on this trial and Exxon…
00:21:51 |
Fri 08 Nov 2019
Fake Reporters and #FakeNews: How Fossil Fuel Companies Hide Behind Energy Blogs
A look at how those fossil fuel-backed deception campaigns are continuing today, behind a couple layers of energy industry organizations, alliances, and "news" sites. Documentation: Western Energy Al…
00:17:40 |
Tue 03 Sep 2019
Big Oil Is Ramping Up PR Spend and Oil Production
Two new reports highlight that, since the Paris Agreement in 2016, the fossil fuel industry has ramped up both oil production and greenwashing. Plus: why the heck are mainstream media outlets making …
00:13:27 |
Thu 15 Aug 2019
S2E6: Facing Extinction
As the crabbers' 2018-2019 season comes to an abrupt close, they prepare for a year that could see the fishery close altogether. Meanwhile the oil industry is pushing to quash the crabbers' climate s…
00:13:26 |
Mon 20 May 2019
S2E5 David vs. Goliath
As the first industry to sue Big Oil, the West Coast crab fishery is likely to meet an even tougher fight than the states, counties, and cities trying to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable. Oi…
00:18:56 |
Mon 13 May 2019
S2E4 Taking Big Oil to Court
As the crabbers' lawsuit against the world's 30 largest fossil fuel producers is filed, we take a look at the evidence, and what exactly sent crabbers—particularly more conservative ones—to court.
S…
00:19:45 |
Mon 06 May 2019
S2E3: Two Lawsuits at Once, Both Driven by Climate Change
Now facing annual closures due to climate change, crabbers learn some new information that spurs them to become the first industry to sue Big Oil.
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00:20:51 |
Mon 29 Apr 2019
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