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
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.…
00:20:16 |
Fri 21 Mar 2025
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 med…
00:21:43 |
Mon 02 Dec 2024
Fuel to Fork: The Role the Oil and Gas Industry Plays in Food-based Emissions
From October-December 2024, Fuel to Fork is taking over the Feed podcast with a 7-episode series exposing the hidden role fossil fuels play in the food we eat. Today, Fuel to Fork co-hosts Anna Lappé…
00:50:28 |
Tue 12 Nov 2024
Genevieve Guenther on the Language of Climate Politics
In her new book, The Language of Climate Politics, Guenther digs into six key rhetorical devices that are being used to slow or block climate action. For an academic book, it's made some folks on the…
01:16:48 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
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 industrie…
00:18:21 |
Tue 24 Sep 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, …
01:05:59 |
Fri 20 Sep 2024
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 h…
00:51:40 |
Mon 09 Sep 2024
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 …
00:30:07 |
Thu 15 Aug 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…
00:36:22 |
Tue 30 Jul 2024
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 i…
00:40:27 |
Wed 17 Jul 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 ac…
00:34:55 |
Tue 09 Jul 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 …
00:39:33 |
Wed 03 Jul 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 th…
00:36:24 |
Tue 25 Jun 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…
00:52:55 |
Sat 18 May 2024
Climate News Update: The New Carbon Majors + Swiss Elders Win Landmark Climate Case
Lots of news lately on stories we've been following, so in today's episode: an update! The landmark Carbon Majors report has been updated with some surprising new data, and the European Court of Huma…
00:41:17 |
Tue 16 Apr 2024
Sainte-Soline, the Government Effort to Disband a Movement in France, and the Radical Solidarity of the Earth Uprisings
In France, the unthinkable has happened for polluting industries: the working-class Yellow Vest movement, racial equity movements, and progressive climate activists have joined forces in a multi-raci…
00:50:20 |
Wed 03 Apr 2024
The U.S. Anti-Renewables Movement, Explained
Late last year, Brown University's Climate and Development Lab put out a comprehensive report looking at the opposition to wind energy on the east coast of the U.S., called "Against the Wind." Today,…
00:47:19 |
Wed 20 Mar 2024
Nearly 30 Years After the Ogoni 9 Tragedy, Nigerians Are Still Resisting Oil Colonialism
Shell announced in late 2023 that it would be shutting down all of its onshore activities in Nigeria and concentrating its efforts offshore. It leaves behind poisoned water, multiple political and ec…
00:43:54 |
Tue 05 Mar 2024
What Ecuador's Yasuní Referendum Really Means for Oil, in Yasuní and Beyond
Last year, headlines all over the world proclaimed victory for the environment: finally, after more than a decade of promises, there would be no more drilling in Yasuní National Park, a large swath o…
00:26:58 |
Tue 20 Feb 2024
Introducing: Hazard NYC
Check out the limited-run series Hazard NYC from The City, all about how climate change intersects with Superfund sites in New York City. Start with episode one here: https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/02/…
00:02:22 |
Mon 19 Feb 2024
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