How Federal Reports about an Eco-terrorist Threat Fueled the Crackdown on Cop City Opponents

Civil Liberties Groups Demand Congress Investigate Homeland Security Agency’s Eco-terrorism Label

Alleen Brown

The Real Free Speech Threat

Cop City Documents

Readers for Sale: How Legacy Media Legitimizes Big Oil’s Climate Talking Points

Reuters, New York Times Top List of Fossil Fuel Industry’s Favorite Media Partners

Amy Westervelt

Matthew Green

Information Pollution

Media Greenwashing

Why Climate Litigation Matters

New Climate Case Names Enablers: API, Western States Petroleum Association, Koch Industries, and McKinsey

California For The Win

Climate Litigation Update: From Hawaii to Switzerland

SCOTUS Says No to Exxon, Now the Corporate Free Speech Fight Begins

Montana Kids Just Won Their Landmark Climate Lawsuit. Here’s Why. 

Sackett, West Virginia and the Judicial Strategy to Gut the EPA

Dana Drugmand

Karen Savage

Karen Sokol

S2, Ep4 | Taking Big Oil to Court

S1, Ep7 | Campaigns So Successful They’ve Landed In Court

S2, Ep 6 | False Friends of the Court

S5, Ep6 | A Verdict And a New Charge

S3 Bonus: A Verdict

S8, Ep9 | A Verdict

Climate Cases

Litigation Documents

The Media’s Role in Criminalizing Protest

Ugandan Government Targets Youth, Students in Crackdown on EACOP Protests

Seven Years Later, an Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline

Another Line 3 Battleground—Free Speech

Meet the First UN Special Rapporteur for Environmental Defenders

How Think Tanks Laid the Groundwork to Criminalize Protest

How Canada Uses ‘Redwashing’ To Crack Down On Indigenous Pipeline Protesters

The Tomato Soup “Controversy”

Indigenous Water Protectors, Allies Protesting Line 3 First Ever To Be Cited under Obscure County Ordinance in Minnesota

Judge Grants Restraining Order Against Minnesota County Sheriff in Line 3 Fight

This Week’s Newsletter: Campus Protests, Climate Crackdowns, and More

In Canada, Another Call for Criminalizing Climate Protest

How UK courts became the new climate protest battleground

Australia’s State-by-State Approach to Criminalizing Climate Protest

Anna Pujol-Mazzini

Lyndal Rowlands

Geoff Dembicki

Documents related to Drilled’s 2023-2024 investigation into the global crackdown on climate protest.

In El Salvador a Cold Case Murder Has Become a Weapon for Silencing Environmental Activists

Sainte-Soline, the Government Effort to Disband a Movement in France, and the Radical Solidarity of the Earth Uprisings

Nearly 30 Years After the Ogoni 9 Tragedy, Nigerians Are Still Resisting Oil Colonialism

Meet the First UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders

S10, Ep15: How UK Courts Became the New Climate Protest Battleground

S10, Ep 14: What Happened at Bayou Bridge? The Other End of the Dakota Access Pipeline

S10, Ep13: Seven Years Later, an Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline

S10, Ep12: Modern-Day Bead Trading: “Redwashing” and Repression in Canada

Abeer Butmeh: Living on the Front Lines of a War and the Climate Crisis, in Palestine

Messy Conversations: Magatte Wade, Head of Atlas Network's Center for African Prosperity

S10, Ep9: The Tomato Soup “Controversy”

S10, Ep8: In Brazil, A Tale as Old as Colonization: Why Indigenous Land Defenders Are Particularly Targeted by Extractive Industries

S10, Ep6: Joanna Smith on “Conspiring Against the United States Government” with…Fingerpaint

S10, Ep5: How Think Tanks Laid the Groundwork to Criminalize Climate Protest

S10, Ep4: In Vietnam, Tax Evasion Charges Help Lock Up Climate Activists

S10, Ep3: In Australia, a State-by-State Approach to Criminalizing Protest

S10, Ep2 | Disha Ravi on Becoming the “Radical” Face of Protest in India at 22

S10, Ep1 | The Corporate Push to Criminalize Speech

S10 Real Free Speech Threat Documents

How Big Oil Killed Our Political Imagination

Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Infiltrated Schools

How the 'Father of Forestry' Inspired Big Oil

Petroganda: We Make Your Life Work

Petroganda: The Original Narrative—Energy Security

Petroganda: The Economy vs. The Environment

The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Century-Long Quest to Invade Elementary Schools

Petroganda: We're Part of the Solution

How the Oil and Gas Industry Smuggles Corporate Propaganda into Schools

Get 'Em While They're Young

S7, Ep1 | The First Day of School

S7, Ep7 | Katie Worth on the State of Climate Education in the U.S.

S7, Ep6 | So…What Do We Do About This?

S7, Ep2 | Elementary School

S7, Ep3 | High School

S7, Ep5 | Ben Franta on Oil on Big Campus

S1, Ep6 | The First Step to Influencing Policy: Setting Research Agendas

S7, Ep4 | We’re Going Streaking

The ABCs of Big Oil

Fossil Fuel Funding In Schools

Blood of the Devil

“Like a War on the Environment” —Texaco’s 30 Years in Ecuador

S5, Ep3 | The Trial

S5, Ep10 | The Kill Step

S5, Ep5 | The Big Guns

S5, Ep4 | The Secret Tribunal

S5, Ep2 | The Colonizers

S5, Ep8 | Damages

S5, Ep9 | The Judge

S5, Ep7 | The Linchpin

S5, Ep1 | Lockdown

S5 Chevron Ecuador Documents

Debunking the "Moral Case" for Fossil Fuels

How Exxon Captured a Country Without Firing a Shot

Guyana High Court: EPA and ExxonMobil Put Country At Grave Risk

Could Guyana’s Exxon ruling scare big oil off risky exploration?

Kiana Wilburg

Sarah Ventre

S8 Update: Gas to Energy for Guyana, or Problem to Profit for Exxon?

S8, Ep7 |  The Global Oil Rush

S8, Ep5 | On Global Poverty and Global Warming

S8, Ep4 | Constitutional Violation

S8, Ep3 | Unlimited Liability

S8, Ep6 | Old-School Greenwashing

S8, Ep8 | The Turning Point

S8, Ep1 | The Boom

S8, Ep2 | The Contract

New Oil Colonialism

Guyana Documents

The Reason Covid-19 and Climate Seem So Similar: Disinformation

The Spin Masters: From Ivy Lee to Rick Berman

Petroganda: The World's Greatest Neighbor

Disinformation Techniques: A Glossary

Information Pollution: A Primer

The Drilled 2024 Guide to Climate Disinformation

E. Bruce Harrison: The Godfather of Greenwashing

S3, Ep8 | Meet The Harrisons

E. Bruce Harrison Documents

Mea Culpas Are Great, But Climate Leaders Need to Model Real Accountability

Is Big Oil Turning on Big Auto?

Fossil Fuel Industry Ads: You Can’t Live If Living Is Without Us

The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Returning to Its Favorite Story

The PR and Ad Industry Moves to Get Ahead of Increasing Scrutiny on Greenwashing

S3, Ep6 | Manipulating the Masses and Predicting the Future—Edward Bernays and W. Howard Chase

S3, Ep9 | Jay Rosen and Nicholas Johnson on What the Media Can Do About Disinformation

S3, Ep7 | John Hill and the Tobacco-Oil-Plastic Triangle

S3, Ep1 | The Father of Public Relations

S3, Ep3 | Psychological Warfare, Astroturfing, and Another Tobacco-Oil Connection

S3, Ep2 | The Oil-Nazi-Propaganda Triangle

S3, Ep4 | Oil Slick, Part 1—The Rise of the Corporate Persona

S3, Ep5 | Oil Slick, Part 2—False Equivalence and Free Speech

S3 PR Documents

John Hill: The Right-Hand Man

John Hill Documents

Ivy Lee: The Godfather

Emily Gertz

S1, Ep2 | Ye Olde Crisis Actor Myth

Ivy Lee Documents

Earl Newsom: The Man Behind the Curtain

S1, Ep6 | How a Standard Oil PR Guy Shaped Post-War America

Petrostates

Newsom Documents

Daniel Edelman: The Psy-Opps King

Inside the Campaign That Put an Oil Boss in Charge of a Climate Summit

S1, Ep5 | Fun With Front Groups

Edelman Documents

How Big Oil Created Corporate Free Speech, and Why It Matters Today

Hot Take: Fixing Media Is a Climate Solution

Herb Schmertz: The Bully

S9, Ep1 | The Panic

S1, Ep3 | Weaponizing False Equivalence

S1, Ep4 | The Birth of SponCon

S9, Ep2 | A Legal Strategy

S9, Ep3 | The Next Citizens United Will Be a Climate Case

Schmertz Documents

Rick Berman: "Dr. Evil"

S1, Ep3 | A Tie Is a Win

Berman Documents

Edward Bernays: The Freudian Slip

S1, Ep1 | Fake Experts and Real Bacon

Bernays Documents

S1, Ep8 | Winning the War

S2, Ep1 | A Crisis, a Cover-Up, and a Community on the Front Lines of Climate Change

S1, Ep4 | Exploiting Scientists’ Kryptonite: Certainty

S1, Ep1 | The Bell Labs of Energy

S1, Ep2 | The Turn

S1, Ep5 | Aggressive Think Tanks, Shouty Pundits, and a New Religious Argument

S2, Ep5 | David v. Goliath

S1 Climate Denial Documents

Revealed: UAE State Oil Company Planned Major "Green" Rebrand Ahead of COP28 Climate Summit

COP28 and the Limits of Eco Modernism

The Missing Ambition at COP28

The COP That PR Firms Built

Petrostate Documents

How a Top Climate Consultancy is Greenwashing Fossil Fuels

Research or Lobbying? New Documents Reveal What Fossil Fuel Companies Are Really Paying for at Top Universities 

Senate Democrats Step Up Pressure on Big Oil

How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists

For LNG, the Moment of Truth Is Now

Molly Taft

Rebecca Leber

Denial to Delay

Joint Investigation Into Fossil Fuel Disinformation - 2024

The New Denial Is Delay

1500+ pages of documents published by the House Oversight Committee during its investigation of oil companies' role in spreading climate disinformation. These documents were removed the second Republicans took control of the House in 2022.

2022 House Oversight Committee Investigation into Fossil Fuel Disinformation

In Backlash to Campus Pro-Palestine Protests, Echoes of Standing Rock and the Global Crackdown on Climate Protest

Documents detailing the surveillance of Standing Rock activists, obtained by public information requests from reporter Alleen Brown, and analyzed with additional support from the Center for Media and Democracy. 

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