In 2020, a source shared a presentation with me from an internal branding workshop they’d been asked to attend for bp. It was fascinating for a number of reasons, not least because it indicated that the oil major felt genuinely threatened by a surprising new enemy: young people. There have always been ebbs and flows […]
Amy Westervelt
Amy is the executive editor of Drilled, an award-winning investigative climate journalist, and author of the book Brought To You By. She has been on the climate beat for more than 20 years, reporting for a wide range of outlets over the years, including Inside Climate News, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, The Intercept, NPR, and many more.
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How Tech Billionaires Broke Democracy | The Spill
Carbon credit markets have come under fire for creative climate accounting, fraud, and land use problems. UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera says they have a human rights problem too.
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Garifuna land defenders vs. Survivor (as in the TV show) | The Spill
Carbon credit markets have come under fire for creative climate accounting, fraud, and land use problems. UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera says they have a human rights problem too.
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The Spill: Drilled’s Weekly Videocast
Bringing you analysis of the latest climate news and media trends, plus interviews with authors, experts, journalists, filmmakers and more!
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S16, Ep3 | The Story of a Decade-Long Investigation
The protest, and thus the propaganda, moves to a new state.
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Ep 1: Welcome to “The Spill,” Our New Weekly Newscast
Bringing you analysis of the latest climate news and media trends, plus interviews with authors, experts, journalists, filmmakers and more!
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New Data Pins a Quarter of a Million Climate-Related Deaths Since 2018 on Equinor
New attribution science finds that fossil fuels sold by Equinor in 2025 alone will bring about between 34,000 and 58,000 additional human deaths compared to a world in which they were never burned.
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S15, Ep 5 | The Saudi Arabia of Biofuels
The cracks in the plan for global carbon domination.
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Carbon Captured
An investigation by Drilled and ProPublica has found that fossil fuel companies have been funding climate research at prestigious U.S. universities for more than 30 years. Their support has helped amplify the work of scientists who promote the idea that we can stop the climate crisis without breaking our dependence on oil, gas and coal. […]
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S15, Ep6 | A Tipping Point
It’s time for the climate movement to take a hard look at false solutions.