New research highlights the role social media plays in making oil company advertorials even more misleading to readers, and what media outlets could do to make it less so.
Podcasts
Posted inBooks (Drilling Deep), Drilled
Genevieve Guenther on the Language of Climate Politics
A deep dive on the rhetoric of climate delay.
Posted inAcademia, Drilled
Denial to Delay: How Fossil-Funded University Research Lays the Foundation for Fossil-Friendly Policy
Molly Taft talks us through newly released reports on fossil fuel funding of university research, and share interviews with climate disinformation researcher Geoffrey Supran, who authored one of the recent studies, and with philosopher of science Craig Callender at UCSD, which just passed a precedent-setting policy to require disclosure of funding on research.
Posted inDrilled, Latin America + Caribbean
In El Salvador a Cold Case Murder Has Become a Weapon for Silencing Environmental Activists
El Salvador’s dictator Nayib Bukele wants to bring mining back to the first country that ever banned it. But first, he needs to silence the activists who got the ban passed.
Posted inAdvertising and PR, Drilled
The Great Greening of LNG
How did a fossil fuel become a climate solution?
Posted inDrilled
How Management Consultancies “Data Wash” for the Fossil Fuel Industry
Management consultancies play a unique role in climate disinformation, often working for both government regulators and the industries they regulate at the same time.
Posted inDrilled, Litigation and Law
Climate News Update: The New Carbon Majors + Swiss Elders Win Landmark Climate Case
Lots of news lately on stories we've been following, so in today's episode: an update! The landmark Carbon Majors report has been updated with some surprising new data, and the European Court of Human Rights has sent down an historic ruling that will shape how EU legislators look at energy and climate.
Posted inDrilled
Sainte-Soline, the Government Effort to Disband a Movement in France, and the Radical Solidarity of the Earth Uprisings
Why is the French government so afraid of the climate movement?
Posted inAfrica, Drilled
Nearly 30 Years After the Ogoni 9 Tragedy, Nigerians Are Still Resisting Oil Colonialism
Shell announced in late 2023 that it would be shutting down all of its onshore activities in Nigeria and concentrating its efforts offshore. It leaves behind poisoned water, multiple political and economic crises, and a country that is measurably worse off today than when its oil industry began. Meanwhile the government continues to target environmental […]
Posted inHot Take
Messy Conversations: How to Talk to Kids about Climate Change, with Mary Annaïse Heglar — a Mini Hot Take Reunion!
Mary Annaïse Heglar's first book is out today, and it's a children's book about climate change. It's the first of three climate books Mary has coming out in the near future (the other two are a novel, called Troubled Waters, and an essay collection of Black writers on climate). She has been busy writing up […]