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
Introducing Our New Season: The Real Free Speech Threat
Around the world, climate and other environmental protestors are being harassed, attacked, and arrested at an alarming rate. Laws are being passed that levy life-altering prison sentences and fines o…
00:03:21 |
Tue 15 Aug 2023
Herb, Ep 3: The Next Citizens United Will Be a Climate Case
In more than 30 climate cases making their way through U.S. courts today, oil companies are using an argument they've been laying the legal groundwork for since the 1970s: that since everything they'…
00:26:40 |
Tue 01 Aug 2023
Herb, Ep 2: A Legal Strategy
Worried that all their work creating Mobil's personality and a multi-pronged issue advertising campaign to go with it would go to waste if the TV networks deemed it all "propaganda" Herb and his boss…
00:30:32 |
Tue 25 Jul 2023
Herb, Ep 1: The Panic
In the 1970s, Mobil Oil had invented the advertorial and was aggressively pursuing an entirely new type of marketing, branding the company as a person with a unique personality and opinions that dese…
00:35:55 |
Tue 18 Jul 2023
Industry Backlash to Grassroots Organizing in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"
ExxonMobil, Chevron and other petrochemical giants are increasingly organizing against grassroots environmental justice activism in Louisiana that are part of the Beyond Petrochemicals campaign. The…
00:25:08 |
Tue 20 Jun 2023
The Anti-ESG Campaign Gets a Boost from RAGA
Ever since the Securities and Exchange Commission announced its intention to make Environmental Social and Governance metrics actually mean something to investors, polluting industries have suddenly …
00:19:53 |
Tue 13 Jun 2023
Jake Bittle on the Complexities of Climate Migration
Jake Bittle's book The Great Displacement looks at how extreme weather events are likely to drive Americans to move from one part of the country (or their state) to another. In this episode, he joins…
00:35:15 |
Tue 30 May 2023
Thea Riofrancos on Tackling Transition and Consumption
Electrification offers an opportunity to rethink how we use energy and how we get around. Researcher Thea Riofrancos wants to see the U.S. seize that opportunity and set the country on a path to a be…
00:37:33 |
Tue 23 May 2023
S8 Bonus: A Verdict
The day after our season finale last week, we got some incredible news from Guyana: the High Court ruled against the oil company and the government in the big insurance case Melinda Janki filed. We c…
00:30:19 |
Tue 09 May 2023
S8 Ep8 | The Turning Point
In the last episode of our "Light, Sweet Crude" season we look at what's next for Guyana, and for other Global South countries grappling with poverty and climate change at the same time.
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00:38:09 |
Tue 02 May 2023
S8 Ep7 | The Global Oil Rush
What's happening in Guyana isn't just happening there. All over the globe, oil companies are racing to tap as many of the remaining fossil fuel reserves as they can. This week, we're joined by Rollin…
00:36:35 |
Tue 25 Apr 2023
S8 Ep6 | Old-School Greenwashing
When we first started reporting this story, people unfamiliar with it would suggest talking to local environmental groups. Surely they would have something to say about a massive new polluting indust…
00:39:29 |
Tue 18 Apr 2023
S8 Ep5 | On Global Poverty and Global Warming
The tension between addressing global poverty and acting on the climate crisis is one the fossil fuel industry, and those who carry water for it, have been increasingly leaning on in recent years. We…
00:39:01 |
Tue 11 Apr 2023
S8 Ep4 | Constitutional Violation
Melinda Janki has filed seven separate cases aimed at blocking oil drilling in Guyana, but only one of them explicitly names climate change as a problem the project is guaranteed to exacerbate. It’s …
00:39:35 |
Tue 04 Apr 2023
S8 Ep3 | Unlimited Liability
One person in Guyana knows both the inner workings of oil companies and the intricacies of Guyanese environmental law better than most. Melinda Janki grew up in Guyana, but went to university at Oxfo…
00:41:58 |
Tue 28 Mar 2023
S8 Ep2 | The Contract
After a year’s worth of pressure from local press and civil society groups, the Guyanese government released its contract with ExxonMobil to the public in December 2017. The IMF calls it an unfair de…
00:37:41 |
Tue 21 Mar 2023
S8 Ep1 | The Boom
Five years ago, Kiana Wilburg was a new reporter when ExxonMobil executives and Guyanese government officials announced they had found oil 40 miles offshore. Wilburg and her newsroom had to quickly l…
00:29:18 |
Tue 14 Mar 2023
New Season Coming Soon: Light, Sweet Crude
On paper, the small South American country of Guyana is the fastest-growing economy in the world, thanks to its oil boom. The country started shipping barrels of oil in 2019. Hotels are popping up al…
00:02:04 |
Tue 28 Feb 2023
Life in a Ticking Carbon Bomb
In this special sneak preview of our next season, we hear from Melinda Janki, a lawyer who's fighting to keep her home country of Guyana from becoming one of the world's largest carbon bombs.
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00:50:36 |
Tue 10 Jan 2023
Rep Ro Khanna on the House Oversight Committee's Climate Disinfo Investigation and a Whole New Batch of Documents
The House Oversight Committee wrapped up its investigation into climate disinformation earlier this month and published a second tranche of revealing internal documents that spell out exactly how the…
00:19:27 |
Tue 20 Dec 2022
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