Silicon Valley elites want to “disrupt” democracy with feudalism. Understanding their new and evolving ideology is critical to grappling with what’s happening in the U.S. today.
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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The U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana Oil Triangle
The U.S. interest in Venezuela isn’t just about the oil there, but also about the oil next door in Guyana, and the U.S. oil companies that have staked their future on it.
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Carbon Bros
Winner of a 2026 Covering Climate Now Award! This podcast miniseries, produced in collaboration with Daniel Penny of the NonToxic podcast, delves into what happens when the manosphere meets the atmosphere and why misogyny and climate disinformation so often spew from the same source.
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COP30 So Far: Protestors, Polluters and the Carbon Market Takeover
The first week of COP30 shows that protest is back and reveals the key focus of business at this year’s summit: blocking commitments to emissions reductions and promoting carbon markets in their stead.
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S14, Ep10 | The Corruption of COP
A look at how polluting industries infiltrated global climate processes from the beginning, and how it works today.
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Make Media Brave Again
The only way to protect what’s left of journalism is to do the job right.
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S14, Ep9 | Climate Obstruction at the Subnational (Local) Level
Local governments are a double-edged sword, moving things forward on climate when they stall at the national level but also throwing up major obstructions to national policy when they want.
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S14, Ep8 | Climate Obstruction in the Global South
What climate obstruction looks like when it’s coming from the countries experiencing the brunt of the climate crisis.
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Philippine Victims of Typhoon Odette File Landmark Legal Challenge Against Shell
The case is the first to directly link oil and gas climate impacts to deaths and personal injuries that have already occurred in the Global South.
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S14, Ep7 | How the Animal Ag Industry Obstructs Climate Policy
On “ag exceptionalism,” backlash to the EU’s Farm to Fork proposal, the impact of the Livestock’s Long Shadow report, and more on the animal ag industries’ concerted push to block climate policy around the world.