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Apr 2211 minComputer-aided DestructionAs climate accountability expands to include the tech sector, how responsible should software providers be for how their products are used?
Apr 24 minHow Fossil Fuel Might Use the COVID-19 Pandemic to Criminalize Pipeline ProtestsA request on the API's COVID-19 pandemic deregulation wishlist could lead to more anti-protest legislation.
Mar 1020 minNew Documents Link Tobacco, Oil and ... Public Media? New reporting reveals that head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting spent 25 years in PR, working for tobacco and oil front groups.
Feb 277 minBeyond Ads: How Politico, Vox and Axios Enable the Fossil Fuel IndustrySome publications are banning fossil fuel ads, but outlets like Vox, Politico and Axios enable Big Oil in ways that go beyond advertising.
Feb 111 minThe Mobil Oil Flack Who Brought Us False Equivalence, Advertorials, and Corporate Free SpeechHerb Schmertz, former VP of Public Affairs for Mobil Oil, crafted a new type of PR strategy for the oil industry.
Feb 101 minContribute to the Fossil Fuel Ads Archive!The fossil fuel ads archive collects and tracks fossil fuel ads from around the globe.
Feb 77 minExxon Downplays Climate Risk to Oil and Gas in New ReportBy Dana Drugmand Climate change is not a crisis, according to ExxonMobil’s latest climate risk report to shareholders and the public. Des...
Jan 283 minHow Astroturfing Made Its Way from Tobacco to OilThe third episode of Drilled S3 focuses on the work of Daniel Edelman, the public relations and marketing firm that bears his name, and h...
Jan 1410 minBig Oil Bets Big on PlasticOn that warm summer evening in 2018, Ariell Llunga wasn’t looking for an environmental epiphany. Thanks to a friends’ gift of two tickets...
Jan 145 minShareholders Demand More Climate Disclosures As SEC Moves to Restrict ThemWith annual meeting season just around the corner, investors are continuing to press fossil fuel companies to disclose their efforts to a...
Jan 132 minFive Times the Oil Industry Accurately Predicted Climate ChangeAlmost every time we hit a climate "milestone," someone posts an old chart from the 1970s or 1980s from a report that the American Petrol...
Jan 22 minThe World's First Publicist Worked for Big OilIn Season 3 of the Drilled podcast we look at Big Oil's big propaganda machine, the specific spin masters who built it, and why it's stil...
Apr 25, 20195 minInside the GCC: The Industry Group That Mobilized to Fight Global Climate ActionIt was a sweltering hot day in June 1988 when NASA climate scientist James Hansen stunned the world, testifying before the U.S. Senate th...