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
First Climate RICO Filed + James Hansen Sues EPA
November was a big month for climate litigation! The first-ever climate RICO was filed on behalf of 16 Puerto Rican municipalities, plus a cohort of scientists and researchers, including NASA scienti…
00:42:15 |
Tue 06 Dec 2022
Loss and Damage, Minus the Fossil Fuels As Development Myth
Loss and damage was a big focus of #COP27 and, ultimately, one of the few things global negotiators could agree on. But media coverage of loss and damage has left out a lot of important history, incl…
00:33:02 |
Tue 22 Nov 2022
Why Is One of Big Oil's Top Greenwashing PR Firms Handling Media for COP27?
COP27 is underway in Egypt. Everyone agrees that the stakes have never been higher so why is longtime fossil fuel industry greenwasher Hill + Knowlton handling media for the conference? Today a look …
00:32:30 |
Tue 08 Nov 2022
COP 27 Will Be a Climate Disinformation Inflection Point: Here's How to Neutralize It
The annual Conference of the Parties —a global meeting of negotiators and heads of state to discuss a path forward on climate action—is coming up in a little over a week. Historically these meetings …
00:38:32 |
Wed 26 Oct 2022
Universities Are Starting to Say No to Fossil Fuel Funding
Beginning with Standard Oil of New Jersey (now Exxon) in the late 1940s, oil companies have invested heavily in universities, not just to fund engineering programs and, eventually, climate science, b…
00:53:32 |
Tue 18 Oct 2022
Widening the Lens of Accountability, with Naomi Oreskes, Jennifer Jacquet, Dr. David Michaels, Geoffrey Supran, and Jessica Wentz
Taped live at the Harvard Faculty Club, an interview with Naomi Oreskes about her forthcoming book "The Big Myth," focused on the origin story behind free-market ideology, followed by a panel discuss…
02:01:20 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
Three Congressional Hearings on Climate Disinfo Bring New Industry Documents to Light
Three Congressional hearings shone a light on climate disinformation this week, with one looking at oil companies' role, another looking at the role of PR firms, and a third looking at corporate atte…
00:18:04 |
Tue 20 Sep 2022
West Virginia Is Giving Texas a Run for Its Money on Climate Obstruction
From its state treasurer to its attorney general to its Senator, West Virginia is leading the charge on climate obstruction and dismantling environmental regulation.
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00:16:27 |
Tue 13 Sep 2022
SCOTUS Will Continue to Weigh in On Climate: Here's What's Coming Next
West Virginia v EPA isn't the only big climate case before the Supreme Court this year, from questioning the SEC's disclosure rules to major Clean Water challenges there's a lot more to come. EarthJu…
00:48:16 |
Tue 23 Aug 2022
A New Front in Climate Obstructionism: State Treasurers?
Jesse Coleman, senior investigator for Documented, joins to walk us through an eye-opening investigation into the State Financial Officers Federation, an obscure group organizing Republican state tre…
00:32:35 |
Tue 16 Aug 2022
Here's What the IPCC Report Actually Said About Carbon Dioxide Removal
Everyone else might have moved on but we're still plodding through the latest IPCC report over here. Carbon dioxide removal, or CDR, came up all over this report, and because the summary is vastly mo…
00:37:29 |
Tue 12 Jul 2022
West Virginia v EPA : Worst-Case Scenario and What Comes Next
The Supreme Court is dragging its feet releasing a ruling in the controversial West Virginia v EPA case. Today we look at the roots of that case, its position in the rightwing judicial strategy, and …
00:45:40 |
Tue 28 Jun 2022
The "Culture War" Embraces Climate
Jennie King, lead author of a new report on climate disinformation from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, joins to discuss the report's findings, including the way various "culture war"riors have…
00:38:36 |
Tue 21 Jun 2022
As a Supreme Court Decision Hanging in the Balance, a Novel Argument: Regulate Greenhouse Gases Under TSCA
As we wait to hear whether the Supreme Court will toss WV v EPA altogether or apply the major questions doctrine to broadly rule against the EPA regulating greenhouse gases, period, a group of climat…
00:32:16 |
Thu 16 Jun 2022
S6 Bonus: Why Is a California Air Board Funding Natural Gas Expansion?
Floodlight's Miranda Green is back with a new story about the push for natural gas in southern California. This time an air board tasked with cleaning up pollution is giving millions of dollars in gr…
00:22:44 |
Tue 14 Jun 2022
False Friends of the Court: Why Every Rightwing Think Tank Has an Amicus Program, with Senator Whitehouse
I have been wondering for months what possible sense it makes for every right-wing think tank to have an amicus program. I mean...is any judge really surprised to learn that the Cato Institute is aga…
00:26:49 |
Tue 07 Jun 2022
S6, Part2 | Ep 5: The Disaster Capitalist Response to Russia-Ukraine
In the response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the gas industry is now fully embracing it's new role. Right alongside the API, Chevron, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the industry moved quickly …
00:29:13 |
Wed 25 May 2022
Bonus: As Australia Heads to the Polls, a Look at Morrison's "Gas-Fired Recovery," Carbon Capture, and Greenwashing
This weekend Australians will vote in the first national election since catastrophic bushfires burned tens of millions of acres and blanketed the country in smoke for weeks. In the lead-up to that el…
00:25:41 |
Thu 19 May 2022
S6, Part 2 | Ep 4: Epic Astroturfing
Even before the gas industry got into the front group business it was using some questionable tactics to stave off electrification. In this episode, LA Times energy reporter Sammy Roth and Floodlight…
00:20:37 |
Tue 17 May 2022
S6, Part2 | Ep3: Anatomy of a Front Group
A year after San Luis Obispo took the lead in Southern California on a gas ban, the coastal town of Santa Barbara was evaluating a similar proposal, and residents were being spammed with texts enco…
00:21:04 |
Tue 03 May 2022
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