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Oct 10
9 min

"Like a War on the Environment" —Texaco's 30 Years in Ecuador

Digging into what actually happened in Ecuador during Texaco's tenure there, and what prompted a decades-long lawsuit against the company.

Aug 5
11 min

The Ohio Utility Scandal, Explained

The Larry Householder-FirstEnergy corruption scandal, explained

Jun 9
6 min

Is BP Really Changing? Or Is Its New Climate Message Just “Beyond Petroleum” All Over Again?

Leaked BP docs show the company is rebranding around the "energy transition" but still plans to grow its oil and gas business.

Apr 22
11 min

Computer-aided Destruction

As climate accountability expands to include the tech sector, how responsible should software providers be for how their products are used?

Apr 2
4 min

How Fossil Fuel Might Use the COVID-19 Pandemic to Criminalize Pipeline Protests

A request on the API's COVID-19 pandemic deregulation wishlist could lead to more anti-protest legislation.

Mar 10
20 min

New 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 27
7 min

Beyond Ads: How Politico, Vox and Axios Enable the Fossil Fuel Industry

Some publications are banning fossil fuel ads, but outlets like Vox, Politico and Axios enable Big Oil in ways that go beyond advertising.

Feb 11
1 min

The Mobil Oil Flack Who Brought Us False Equivalence, Advertorials, and Corporate Free Speech

Herb Schmertz, former VP of Public Affairs for Mobil Oil, crafted a new type of PR strategy for the oil industry.

Feb 10
1 min

Contribute to the Fossil Fuel Ads Archive!

The fossil fuel ads archive collects and tracks fossil fuel ads from around the globe.

Feb 7
7 min

Exxon Downplays Climate Risk to Oil and Gas in New Report

By Dana Drugmand Climate change is not a crisis, according to ExxonMobil’s latest climate risk report to shareholders and the public. Des...

Jan 28
3 min

How Astroturfing Made Its Way from Tobacco to Oil

The 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 14
10 min

Big Oil Bets Big on Plastic

On that warm summer evening in 2018, Ariell Llunga wasn’t looking for an environmental epiphany. Thanks to a friends’ gift of two tickets...

Jan 14
5 min

Shareholders Demand More Climate Disclosures As SEC Moves to Restrict Them

With annual meeting season just around the corner, investors are continuing to press fossil fuel companies to disclose their efforts to a...

Jan 13
2 min

Five Times the Oil Industry Accurately Predicted Climate Change

Almost 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 2
2 min

The World's First Publicist Worked for Big Oil

In 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, 2019
5 min

Inside the GCC: The Industry Group That Mobilized to Fight Global Climate Action

It was a sweltering hot day in June 1988 when NASA climate scientist James Hansen stunned the world, testifying before the U.S. Senate th...

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