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. […]
Maddie Stone
Maddie Stone is a freelance journalist covering science, energy and the environment. She's the founding editor of Earther, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, The Washington Post, Gizmodo and Vice.
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Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
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How a Top Climate Consultancy Is Greenwashing Fossil Fuels
Multinational consultancy ICF is well known for its government climate work, but the fossil fuel industry also pays the firm to produce reports it uses to promote oil and gas.
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How Management Consultancies “Data Wash” for the Fossil Fuel Industry
Management consultancies play a unique role in climate disinformation, often working for both government regulators and the industries they regulate at the same time.
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False Solutions and Climate Delay
This series is supported in part by the Pulitzer Center, with several pieces co-published with media partners, including The Guardian, Vox, and Rolling Stone. Reporting on climate disinformation has increased exponentially over the past decade. In 2015, reporters at Inside Climate News, The Los Angeles Times, and Columbia Journalism School published the stories collectively referred […]
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Microsoft employees spent years fighting the tech giant’s oil ties. Now, they’re speaking out.
Inside the worker-led effort to get the world’s most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill.
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S4, Bonus: Computer-Aided Destruction: Art, Autodesk, and What Accountability Looks Like for the Tech Industry
French artist Joanie Lemercier has been a thorn in Autodesk's side for more than a year now, since he first pointed out that the California software company's computer-aided drafting (CAD) software keeps Europe's largest coal mine operating. Tech reporter Maddie Stone started looking into it, and found that Autodesk software is used by not only […]
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Computer-Aided Destruction
Autodesk “makes software for people who make things,” including fossil fuel companies, although it’s marketed itself as a highly sustainable company for years. As climate accountability expands to include the tech sector, big new questions are emerging.
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Big Oil, Big Profits, Big Brother
The multi-billion-dollar digital services Microsoft provides to the oil and gas industry could help delay the energy transition — and threaten worker privacy.