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
That Ohio Utility Corruption Scandal, with Leah Stokes
The FBI arrested Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, Larry Householder, this month for racketeering, or as the state attorney general put it "bribery, that's what it was." Private utility F…
00:22:40 |
Sat 01 Aug 2020
A Proposed Fossil Fuel Ad Ban in The Netherlands
An advocacy group in The Netherlands began campaigning for a ban on fossil fuel ads, including event sponsorships, earlier this year. Campaigner Femke Sleegers joins us to explain the roots of the ca…
00:21:33 |
Tue 14 Jul 2020
Pioneering Fracking Company Chesapeake Energy Goes Bust
Despite tax breaks, royalty cuts, and other COVID-related incentives, Chesapeake Energy—a pioneer in the American shale gas (fracking) industry—declared bankruptcy this week. It's the first example o…
00:16:38 |
Tue 30 Jun 2020
Minnesota and D.C. File Climate Fraud Suits
Two big new suits, in Minnesota and D.C., were filed within 24 hours of each other and allege the same thing: that fossil fuel companies misled consumers about climate change.
Learn more about your a…
00:13:34 |
Fri 26 Jun 2020
Big Oil's Multi-Billion-Dollar Blind Spot
A new report from Carbon Tracker finds that not only have oil and gas companies not been budgeting for plugging and abandoning wells, they've been grossly underestimating the cost of that work, espec…
00:25:42 |
Thu 18 Jun 2020
Yes, It's Still Time to Talk About Climate (from Hot Take)
Amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, some climate activists have been saying "now's not the time to talk about climate." In this episode we bring you an encore presentation of the latest Hot …
00:30:04 |
Sun 14 Jun 2020
Naomi Klein and How the Shock Doctrine Applies to America Right Now
Naomi Klein's book The Shock Doctrine focused on what she calls "disaster capitalism," the sort of corporate feeding frenzy that happens in the wake of major crises. It was on a research trip for tha…
00:36:23 |
Sun 07 Jun 2020
What Shell Knew: A Surprising Report from The Netherlands Finds that Shell Was Directly Funding Climate Denial in the 1990s
Reporters Alexander Beunder and Jilles Mast have been combing through 150+ boxes of documents from the personal archive of one of the Netherlands' top climate skeptics during the 1990s, a guy named F…
00:24:58 |
Fri 29 May 2020
No, Climate Action Will Not Be "Just Like Quarantine Only Worse" — Why Letting Go of the Climate Narrative Never Works, a Special Bonus Ep f
Last week, The New York Times ran a story on the GOP's favorite new climate narrative: If you think quarantine is bad, just wait til the Dems impose climate action on you. In this special ep from Hot…
00:11:35 |
Fri 22 May 2020
The Climate Deniers Have Lost Their King, and Still They Soldier On
In April 2020, Fred Singer, longtime king of the climate deniers, died at the age of 95. In this episode, investigative reporter Dan Zegart, author of the book Civil Warriors, about the 1990s tobacco…
00:42:26 |
Tue 19 May 2020
The U.S. Government Has Been Rubber-Stamping New Oil and Gas Projects—This Lawsuit Hopes to Change That
A lawsuit filed against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) over a small project in Massachusetts could have big implications. It aims to force FERC to comply with an order the courts gav…
00:18:46 |
Sat 09 May 2020
Old and Wrong: Leah Stokes on the Many Flaws of Michael Moore's Planet of The Humans
Political scientist and environmental policy expert Leah Stokes joins us to discuss the many things the new film Planet of the Humans gets wrong about renewable energy, environmentalists and the figh…
00:28:03 |
Wed 29 Apr 2020
Earth Day in Louisiana: A Petro-state Fights Back
On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and the week of the 10-year anniversary of the BP Deepwater oil spill, we head to Louisiana to talk petrochemicals, petroleum, plastic, fossil fueled philanthropy…
00:29:42 |
Wed 22 Apr 2020
Computer-Aided Destruction: Art, Autodesk, and What Accountability Looks Like for the Tech Industry
French artist Joanie Lemercier has been a thorn in Autodesk's side for more than a year now, since he first pointed out that the California software company's computer-aided drafting (CAD) software k…
00:22:23 |
Wed 22 Apr 2020
How Big Oil Is Using the Pandemic to Push More Plastic
In a new report, the Center for International Environmental Law looks at the way oil, gas and petrochemical companies are leveraging the pandemic to push policy and increase profits, and whether thes…
00:19:21 |
Thu 16 Apr 2020
In Colorado, Seniors Held Hostage by Fracking
Because of their proximity to oil and gas operations, residents of Broomfield, Colorado were at risk of exposure to flowback-driven air pollution during shelter-in-place orders, so the city issued an…
00:12:38 |
Wed 15 Apr 2020
New Research Shows Fossil Fuels Are Not As Essential As The Industry Would Like You to Believe
Dr. Julia Steinberger, professor of social ecology and ecological economics at the University of Leeds, has published some really interesting research recently debunking some classic fossil fuel narr…
00:23:42 |
Tue 07 Apr 2020
Amid the Pandemic Free-for-All, Unlit Flares at Texas Shale Refineries Are Dumping "Unimaginable" Amounts of Methane into the Atmosphere
Field investigator Sharon Wilson has spotted a troubling increase in methane emissions from refineries in the Permian Basin, in Texas. Things went from bad to worse in January 2020, and really blew u…
00:14:15 |
Fri 03 Apr 2020
Reporter Justin Mikulka on Why ExxonMobil and Chevron Are the Biggest Opponents to a Shale Gas Bailout
The American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil and Chevron have been amongst the biggest opponents to bailouts for shale gas companies as part of the coronavirus relief package. DeSmog's Justin Mikulka…
00:16:24 |
Wed 01 Apr 2020
There Will Be Fraud: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Turned into Christmas for Big Oil
The oil and gas industry was headed for broke long before COVID-19. Now the Trump administration wants to use the pandemic to put it on life support, while the American Petroleum Institute uses it to…
00:24:00 |
Sat 28 Mar 2020
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