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31 Episodes | 2018 - 2020
The Madmen of Climate Denial
Drilled: A True Crime Podcast about Climate Change
October 21st, 2018 / 2:26
Launched November 14, 2018, Drilled is a limited series investigative true-crime podcast about the crime of the century: the creation of climate denial.
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The Bell Labs of Energy
November 14th, 2018 / 17:00
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Exxon wanted to be the Bell Labs of energy. It hired brilliant scientists who conducted cutting-edge research on everything from the "greenhouse effect" to renewable energy…
The Turn
November 15th, 2018 / 18:41
As the price of oil dipped in the early 1980s, management changed at most oil companies and the industry as a whole became more concerned with…
Weaponizing False Equivalence
November 16th, 2018 / 18:23
As climate disinformation campaigns ramped up in the 1990s, oil companies and their PR firms exploited weaknesses in the U.S. media system and propped up "contrarian" scientists to push the narrative of…
Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: Certainty
November 17th, 2018 / 13:56
In addition to using journalists' views on their own objectivity against them, oil companies exploited various weaknesses in science, namely scientists' tendency toward not prioritizing or valuing good communication…
Aggressive Think Tanks, Shouty Pundits, and a New Religious Argument
November 17th, 2018 / 18:12
To make media manipulation and lobbying truly effective, oil companies and their public relations firms also had to shift the culture, influencing …
The First Step to Influencing Policy: Setting Research Agendas
November 17th, 2018 / 15:53
If you unravel climate policy back to its origins, eventually you get to academic research. Although oil companies dramatically reduced their own … Campaigns So Successful They've Landed in Court
November 17th, 2018 / 16:33
The fossil fuel industry's decades-long information war was so successful that even though oil companies themselves began publicly accepting climate …
Winning the War
November 18th, 2018 / 20:51
Fossil fuel industry influence campaigns ensured that we lost a critical 30 years not taking action on climate change. But all is not lost…
Big Oil's New Story: The First Amendment Covers Climate Denial
February 5th, 2019 / 25:04
In a batch of aggressive countersuits, Exxon is accusing the counties, cities, and states of conspiring to quash its First Amendment rights…
Coming Soon: Hot Water, a New Drilled Series
April 3rd, 2019 / 2:05
In 2015 a warm water "blob," the result of both warming oceans and shifting wind patterns, wreaked havoc on West Coast fishing towns…
S2E1: A Crisis, a Cover-Up, and a Community on the Front Lines of Climate Change
April 22nd, 2019 / 21:51
In 2015, West Coast crab fishermen were shut down by climate change. Atmospheric changes had warmed waters and upended everything from the food chain…
S2E2: A Late Season and a Shaky Future
April 22nd, 2019 / 16:16
As the 2015 delay wears on, and holiday markets come and go, crabbers are getting desperate. Some are forced out of business, others worry…
S2E3: Two Lawsuits at Once, Both Driven by Climate Change
April 29th, 2019 / 19:51
Now facing annual closures due to climate change, crabbers learn some new information that spurs them to become the first industry to sue Big Oil.
S2E4 Taking Big Oil to Court
May 6th, 2019 / 18:45
As the crabbers' lawsuit against the world's 30 largest fossil fuel producers is filed, we take a look at the evidence…
S2E5 David vs. Goliath
May 13th, 2019 17:56
As the first industry to sue Big Oil, the West Coast crab fishery is likely to meet an even tougher fight than the states, counties, and cities …
S2E6: Facing Extinction
May 20th, 2019 / 13:26
As the crabbers' 2018-2019 season comes to an abrupt close, they prepare for a year that could see the fishery close altogether. Meanwhile…
Big Oil Is Ramping Up PR Spend and Oil Production
August 15th, 2019 / 12:27
Two new reports highlight that, since the Paris Agreement in 2016, the fossil fuel industry has ramped up both oil production and greenwashing. Plus: why the heck are mainstream media outlets making Big Oil's ads…
Fake Reporters and #FakeNews: How Fossil Fuel Companies Hide Behind Energy Blogs
September 3rd, 2019 / 16:40
A look at how those fossil fuel-backed deception campaigns are continuing today, behind a couple layers of energy industry organizations, alliances, and "news" sites. Documentation: Western Energy Alliance 990…
Recap: ExxonMobil's New York Fraud Trial
November 8th, 2019 / 21:51
New York's fraud trial against ExxonMobil closed November 7th. Reporter Emily Gertz and Union of Concerned Scientist's Kathy Mulvey watched…
Youth Climate Suits and Inter-generational Injustice
November 28th, 2019 / 28:38
In the Juliana vs. The United States case, a group of young people sued the government for incentivizing increased fossil fuel dependence…
Drilled: Season 3
S3: The Mad Men of Climate Denial
December 5th, 2019 / 2:59
Big Oil gave Hitler propaganda tips decades ago and their PR machine has only grown from there. This season we dig into the history of fossil fuel propaganda and the few "Mad Men of climate denial" who shaped it…
S3, Ep 1: The Father of Public Relations
January 21st, 2020 / 16:23
In this season we're tackling Big Oil's big propaganda machine—its origins, the spin masters who created it, and why it's been so effective. It all began more than 100 years ago with Standard Oil, John D. Rockefeller…
S3, Ep 2: The Oil-Nazi-Propaganda Triangle
January 21st, 2020 / 23:14
Ivy Lee worked with Standard Oil and the Rockefellers for the rest of his life, helping to establish the American Petroleum Institute in 1919…
S3, Ep 3: Psychological Warfare, Astroturfing, and Another Tobacco-Oil Connection
January 28th, 2020 / 22:56
Daniel Edelman learned the tools of his trade combatting Nazi propaganda in WWII, then came home and put his psychological warfare training to work …
S3, Ep 4: Oil Slick, Part 1—The Rise of the Corporate Persona
February 4th, 2020 / 20:47
Mobil Oil's longtime PR guy Herb Schmertz really started to aggressively manipulate the media. He introduced so many new bells and whistles to Big Oil…
S3, Ep 5: Oil Slick, Part 2—False Equivalence and Free Speech
February 11th, 2020 / 17:48
In part two of our episode on former Mobil VP Herb Schmertz, we dig into how Schmertz's approach bred false equivalence, and why he pushed so hard for the extension of First Amendment rights to corporations.
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We Interrupt This Podcast for New Research + Emily Atkin and Guardian CEO Anna Bateson on Banning Fossil Fuel Ads
February 18th, 2020 / 24:45
We'll be back with more Mad Men tales next week, we promise! While we're out chasing leads, listen to this great interview from Emily Atkin with The Guardian's interim CEO Anna Bateson about that publication's decision…
S3, Ep 6: Manipulating the Masses and Predicting the Future—Edward Bernays and W. Howard Chase
February 25th, 2020 / 29:04
Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, coined the term "public relations" when propaganda started to become a negative term. His specialty was using …
S3, Ep 7: John Hill and the Tobacco-Oil-Plastic Triangle
March 3rd, 2020 / 26:05
John Hill, founder of Hill & Knowlton, was an Ivy Lee devotee who worked for Standard Oil in the 1930s, strategized against labor movements…
S3, Ep 8: Meet the Harrisons
March 10th, 2020 / 29:00
E. Bruce and Patricia Harrison launched the E. Bruce Harrison Company in 1973 and ran it until 1996, working for a mix of chemical companies, oil & gas companies, and tobacco companies…
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