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From Venezuela to Greenland and Beyond: The Story Behind the Story

From Venezuela to Greenland and Beyond: The Story Behind the Story

Make Media Brave Again

Make Media Brave Again

Montana Kids Just Won Their Landmark Climate Lawsuit. Here’s Why.

Montana Kids Just Won Their Landmark Climate Lawsuit. Here’s Why.

Fossil fuel workers are dying inhaling gases – despite US warnings to big oil

Fossil fuel workers are dying inhaling gases – despite US warnings to big oil

Enabling Fossil Fuel Addiction: It's About More Than Money

Enabling Fossil Fuel Addiction: It's About More Than Money

Happy Earth Day: Let's Move Past the "Moral Case" for Fossil Fuels

Happy Earth Day: Let's Move Past the "Moral Case" for Fossil Fuels

Accountability Is The Most Important Climate Solution

Accountability Is The Most Important Climate Solution

Highlights from the House Oversight Committee's Climate Disinformation Documents

Highlights from the House Oversight Committee's Climate Disinformation Documents

Drilled Down: Manchin's Inflation Reduction Act—What's Good and Bad for Climate

Drilled Down: Manchin's Inflation Reduction Act—What's Good and Bad for Climate

Drilled Down: Debunking Demand (IPCC Mitigation Report, Part 1)

Drilled Down: Debunking Demand (IPCC Mitigation Report, Part 1)

Drilled Down: How Big Oil Created Corporate Free Speech, and Why It Matters Today

Drilled Down: How Big Oil Created Corporate Free Speech, and Why It Matters Today

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Feb
22
People Never Suck in Just One Way: On Epstein, Climate, and the Hubris of the Ultra-Wealthy

People Never Suck in Just One Way: On Epstein, Climate, and the Hubris of the Ultra-Wealthy

As an investigative reporter with a thing for documents, normally a massive release of previously hidden emails and texts would
6 min read
Feb
10
Yes, Climate Still Matters. Here's How It Connects to Every Other Crisis in the World Today.

Yes, Climate Still Matters. Here's How It Connects to Every Other Crisis in the World Today.

Lately I've been experiencing something I suspect a lot of other climate reporters—and really anyone who works
3 min read
Feb
02
From Venezuela to Greenland and Beyond: The Story Behind the Story

From Venezuela to Greenland and Beyond: The Story Behind the Story

We're only a month into 2026 and already several of the stories Drilled has been reporting on and
2 min read
Nov
23
There Can Be No Information Integrity Without Scientific and Political Integrity

There Can Be No Information Integrity Without Scientific and Political Integrity

I'm just back from COP30 in Belém and it is making me feel crazy to watch so many
4 min read
Nov
08
Make Media Brave Again

Make Media Brave Again

Bless you dear people for sticking with my very erratic newsletter-writing schedule. I swear to you that we will get
11 min read
Jul
01
S12, Ep4 | Back to the Water

S12, Ep4 | Back to the Water

21 min read
Jun
23
S12, Ep3 | The Charge

S12, Ep3 | The Charge

By this point, Energy Transfer has quietly dropped both Cody Hall and the other Indigenous activist initially named in the
1 min read
Jun
23
The Fossil Fuel Industry Hasn't Come Up With a New Story in 100 Years, Why Do Climate Folks Find It So Hard to Keep Up?

The Fossil Fuel Industry Hasn't Come Up With a New Story in 100 Years, Why Do Climate Folks Find It So Hard to Keep Up?

With geopolitics in turmoil, war and genocide raging, the United States running as fast as it can away from climate
12 min read
May
30
S12, Ep1: How did we get here?

S12, Ep1: How did we get here?

25 min read
May
26
Forget the "Joe Rogan of the Left," Where's the Rupert Murdoch?

Forget the "Joe Rogan of the Left," Where's the Rupert Murdoch?

Something can be repeated over and over, a story told ten different ways, and then one particular frame or graphic
16 min read