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
S6, Part 2 | Ep 2: The New Climate Villains
For more than a decade, even environmental advocates promoted the idea of fossil gas as part of the solution on climate change. But while it did help to reduce dependency on coal and thereby reduce C…
00:27:44 |
Tue 26 Apr 2022
S6, Part 2 | Ep 1: A Busload of COVID
In April 2020 when San Luis Obispo announced a plan to become the first city in Southern California to ban gas in new buildings, the region's utility SoCal Gas--the largest gas utility in the country…
00:23:39 |
Tue 19 Apr 2022
Climate One Collaboration: Breaking Down Climate Misinformation
Fossil fuel companies and others have spent decades casting doubt on climate science to allow them to continue to profit. As documented by climate communication expert John Cook and others, these str…
01:00:56 |
Fri 15 Apr 2022
Conflicts of Interest, Debunking Demand, Media Manipulation & More | IPCC Report, Part One
The IPCC mitigation report dropped this week and it is a *doozy*. We'll be digging into it throughout the month of April to help you make sense of it all. Read more: www.drilledpodcast.com
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00:42:56 |
Sat 09 Apr 2022
Responsibilities Not Rights: A Tuhoe Perspective
When Tūhoe negotiated legal personhood for their homeland Te Urewera, the global rights of nature community cheered. But in this conversation about how the case connects to rights of nature overall a…
00:15:31 |
Thu 31 Mar 2022
A Landmark Ruling in Ecuador
Last episode we told the story of Ecuador's rights-of-nature journey, today Melissa Troutman and Joshua Pribanic, directors of Invisible Hand and co-founders of the journalism organization Public Her…
00:23:20 |
Thu 17 Mar 2022
Los Cedros: The Cloud Forest v. The Mine
Ecuador was the first country to adopt rights of nature into its constitution, but its Constitutional Court (Ecuador’s equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court) has not heard many cases in the decade o…
00:31:21 |
Fri 11 Mar 2022
West Virginia v EPA and What It Means for Climate Policy
A case argued at the Supreme Court this week—West Virginia v EPA—has potentially huge implications for regulating greenhouse gas emissions. NYU law professor Richard Revesz and Center for Biological …
00:22:58 |
Thu 03 Mar 2022
A Brief History of Rights of Nature in the U.S.
Rights of nature first started making its way into U.S. courtrooms via an unlikely source: Disney. Today it's a huge threat to the fossil fuel industry. So much so that the industry is pushing preemp…
00:33:22 |
Thu 24 Feb 2022
Drilled Presents: Damages
Damages is following the hundreds of climate lawsuits currently happening all over the country. First up, in Season 1, a look at rights of nature cases all over the world. In this episode, we start w…
00:34:04 |
Fri 18 Feb 2022
The Right-Wing Web of Climate Delay, with Lisa Graves
Right-wing funders don't just work on climate change, or voter suppression, or attacks on public schools, they tackle all of it together. In this episode, expert Lisa Graves talks us through the tang…
00:36:41 |
Sat 12 Feb 2022
An Update on the Big U.S. Youth Climate Lawsuit
Back in 2015, twenty-one young people sued the United States for its actions to drive and exacerbate climate change. The case, Juliana v. United States, looked like it was done for back in 2021 when …
00:29:39 |
Fri 28 Jan 2022
Exxon Takes Its First Amendment Battle to Texas Supreme Court
Guardian journalist Chris McGreary joins to discuss ExxonMobil's attempts in Texas to cast litigation against it as a conspiracy to muzzle its free speech rights. Read Chris's story: https://www.theg…
00:20:50 |
Fri 21 Jan 2022
Redefining Environmentalists
For decades, the fossil fuel industry has successfully framed environmentalists as silly, elitist, radical, and out of touch. And for a long time the climate movement has gone along with it, self-fla…
00:16:54 |
Fri 14 Jan 2022
Climate Crisis, Meet Democracy Crisis
A conversation with Max Berger, a longtime progressive organizer who helped incubate the Sunrise Movement and has also worked in the past for Cori Bush and Elizabeth Warren, about movement building, …
00:33:25 |
Fri 07 Jan 2022
Drilled Presents | Scene on Radio, The Repair | Episode 9: Pachamama
In several countries around the world, including Ecuador, New Zealand, and the U.S., some people are trying to protect the planet using a legal concept called “rights of nature”—infusing the law with…
00:45:34 |
Fri 17 Dec 2021
The Influence Industry and Climate Obstruction
Groundbreaking new research from Brown University's Dr. Robert Brulle shows just how much oil companies have spent on PR in recent decades, and tracks how PR firms helped to architect climate obstruc…
00:33:38 |
Fri 10 Dec 2021
One PR Firm Works on More Climate Obstruction Than Any Other
In a new study, sociologist Robert Brulle examined which PR firms work for the various industries obstructing climate action. Only one firm was in the top 3 for every single segment. Listen to find o…
00:28:24 |
Tue 07 Dec 2021
Fracking the Outback: Australia's Plan to Go Big on Fracking & Plastic
As the rest of the world is beginning to realize that fracking comes with more downsides than upsides, Australia is readying itself for a fracking boom, eyeing basins on Indigenous land.
Learn more a…
00:29:14 |
Fri 26 Nov 2021
Melissa Aronczyk on the History of Greenwashing
Melissa Aronczyk, media studies scholar at Rutgers University, is one of my go-to sources on all things disinformation. In this episode, she walks us through the history of environmental PR and how i…
00:53:15 |
Fri 19 Nov 2021
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