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
Corporate Personhood? What About Ecosystem Personhood
We talked about rights of nature a bit in the Ecuador-Chevron season, the Latin American country was the first in the world to integrate the concept of rights of nature in its Constitution. Now the C…
00:39:22 |
Sat 10 Apr 2021
Infrastructure Week! Build Back Better, THRIVE, and More with Kaniela Ing
The Biden Administration has rolled out its Build Back Better plan and it includes a lot of progressive wishlist items, but the left is still pushing for more scale. The THRIVE Act, reintroduced by S…
00:29:46 |
Wed 31 Mar 2021
All Eyes on Weymouth as FERC Signals Interest in Environmental Justice
Local activists and legislators have been fighting the Enbridge natural gas compressor in Weymouth for years. It's too close to residents and businesses, and poses too many health risks to a communit…
00:23:32 |
Sat 27 Mar 2021
How the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Undermining Free Speech
Fossil fuel-backed anti-protest laws have been passed in 14 states and are making their way through statehouses in several more states, including six different bills in Minnesota, the only state with…
00:36:53 |
Sat 20 Mar 2021
Frackalachia and the Great Fracking Jobs Myth
When a report makes oil and gas companies—and the politicians they help elect—this mad, you know the author is on to something. Researcher Sean O'Leary, with the Ohio River Valley Institute, joins us…
00:38:45 |
Fri 12 Mar 2021
The API Was Pushing Climate Denial Way Earlier Than Anyone Thought
Stanford researcher Ben Franta joins to talk about a bombshell new discovery: the American Petroleum Institute not only knew about climate change back in the 70s, it started pushing climate denial as…
00:25:12 |
Fri 05 Mar 2021
S5 Ep 11 | ¿Ahora Que?
Donziger is still on house arrest and disbarred, the settlement seems impossible to collect, now what? In this episode we look at what this case says about accountability and the power of oil compani…
00:28:56 |
Sat 19 Dec 2020
S5 Ep 10 | The Kill Step
Chevron makes good on its promise to fight the Ecuadorian judgement until hell freezes over ... and then fight it out on the ice. Donziger loses his appeal of the RICO judgement, then finds himself f…
00:21:56 |
Fri 11 Dec 2020
S5 Ep9 | The Judge
Corruption charges against both the Ecuadorian judge and the American judge fly as the RICO gets underway.Support our work: patreon.com/Drilled
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00:39:51 |
Fri 04 Dec 2020
S5 Ep 8 | Damages
Chevron's legal team shocks the Ecuadorian plaintiffs with a massive racketeering claim in the U.S. alleging fraud, witness tampering, and even bribery.Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Drilled
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00:28:35 |
Fri 20 Nov 2020
S5 Ep7 | The Linchpin
Chevron's attorneys go after Joe Berlinger, the filmmaker behind the documentary about the case, Crude. They subpoena his outtakes, kicking off a years-long First Amendment battle.Support our work: h…
00:42:10 |
Fri 13 Nov 2020
Big Oil's Bad Bet on Plastic
A new report from Carbon Tracker finds that the fossil fuel industry is pinning its hopes on a plastic boom—and try as it might to spur that demand, it's just not materializing. Report author Kingsmi…
00:20:26 |
Fri 06 Nov 2020
Update: Donziger Headed to Trial with No Representation
New York District Court Judge Loretta Preska has denied repeated requests to delay Donziger's criminal contempt trial until at least one of his lawyers can be present. Barring any last-minute changes…
00:26:51 |
Fri 06 Nov 2020
S5 Ep6 | A Verdict and a New Charge
The case takes a bizarre turn with a sting operation, U.S. subpoenas, accusations of fraud and bribery, and finally a verdict in Ecuador.
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00:25:14 |
Fri 30 Oct 2020
S5 Ep5 | The Big Guns
With the Ecuadorian plaintiffs racking up good press and an endorsement from the country's president, Chevron kicks things up a notch, bringing on new lawyers and PR firms to tell a very different st…
00:33:20 |
Fri 23 Oct 2020
S5 Ep4 | The Secret Tribunal
In September 2009, Chevron filed an international arbitration claim against the government of Ecuador over the Lago Agrio case. In the years since the company has pointed to the decisions of that arb…
00:46:57 |
Fri 16 Oct 2020
S5 Ep3 | The Trial
The trial gets underway in Ecuador, an election changes the calculus, and a global PR war kicks into high gear.Support our work: patreon.com/drilled
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00:24:34 |
Fri 09 Oct 2020
S5 Ep2 | The Colonizers
How did this case come about in the first place? We go back to the early days of oil colonialism in Ecuador, in the 1960s, the partnership between oil men and missionaries, and the impact on indigeno…
00:30:20 |
Fri 02 Oct 2020
S5 Ep1 | Lockdown
In August 2019, an American lawyer was put on house arrest as he awaited trial on criminal contempt charges. The charges stem from a decades-long case that began with pollution in the Amazon and has …
00:27:52 |
Fri 25 Sep 2020
Big Oil Fighting Divestment + Sneak Preview of S5!
A few weeks ago the Trump administration quietly proposed a rule that would make it harder for financial managers to investment retirement funds in environmentally or socially responsible ways. The f…
00:15:28 |
Sat 22 Aug 2020
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