The man who started it all.
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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E. Bruce Harrison: The Godfather of Greenwashing
From Silent Spring to the Kyoto Protocol
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Another Line 3 Battleground—Free Speech
How the fossil fuel industry is undermining free speech.
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The Spin Masters: From Ivy Lee to Rick Berman
Each generation has brought us a new PR legend who has added new bells and whistles to the disinformation machine.
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Secret Tribunals and Hand-Picked Arbiters—A Little-known System Undermines Environmental Regulation
How trade agreements and mandatory arbitration clauses could make it harder for countries worldwide to take strong climate action.
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Personal Essay: Mothering In the Age of Extinction
On caring for the world and a family at the same time.
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Leaked BP Docs Show: Protest Works. That’s Why It’s Important to Protect It.
Internal BP marketing strategy maps the path ahead.
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The Reason Covid-19 and Climate Seem So Similar: Disinformation
For a long time, the story went that the tobacco industry cooked up disinformation and then spread it to the fossil fuel guys, the chemical industry, pharma, you name it. But one thing that became incredibly clear when we began digging into PR firms and specific publicists was that this version of history is not […]
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Leaked Document: Industry Pushing Liability Waiver Under Cover of COVID-19
The fossil fuel industry is attempting to smuggle a liability waiver for itself into the government’s Covid-19 relief package.
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The Climate-COVID Tracker
Tracking the subsidies, incentives, and roll-backs the fossil fuel industry leveraged Covid-19 to secure.
