May
18
How Forbes Pushes Climate Delay
Ten years ago—TEN—I wrote a blog post on Medium about manufactured thought leadership. At the time, I had
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Amy Westervelt
May
05
The Loudest Guys in the Room: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Warps the Information Ecosystem
The Drilled team has been busy this week! We've put out six major stories across as many days:
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Apr
26
Student Protests Have Always Terrified Powerful Interests
In August 1971, tobacco lobbyist Lewis Powell was chatting with his friend Gene Sydnor, education chair for the U.S.
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Apr
14
Climate Litigation Update: From Hawaii to Switzerland
In the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, both climate litigation and climate activism were listed,
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Apr
09
On Lobbyists, Civility, and the State of Climate Journalism
The timing of this newsletter is weird because last week I attended the Society of Environmental Journalists conference, where Drilled
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Mar
31
The BBC, Guyana, and Untangling North-South Climate Complexities
An excerpt from a BBC interview with Guyana's president Dr. Irfaan Ali went viral on social media at
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Mar
24
The Atmosphere Doesn't Care About Your Feelings
I said this in an interview recently as a joke, but honestly I think we need to embrace this fact
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Mar
09
How Extractive Industry Won the War Against ESG
This week the Security and Exchange Commission’s long-awaited guidance on climate risk disclosure, or as it’s better known
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Mar
03
In a Numbers Game, Justice Wins
A couple years ago, we worked with reporter Rebecca Nagle on the second season of her excellent podcast, This Land.
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Feb
24
Fixing Media Is a Climate Solution
If you don't work in media, perhaps it has escaped your attention that several hundred reporters have already
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