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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Posted inDisinformation
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.
Posted inIndigenous Affairs
SLAPP’d
For seven years Energy Transfer has pursued a $300 million conspiracy lawsuit against Greenpeace, alleging that one of the world’s largest environmental nonprofits was pulling the strings behind the most significant Indigenous uprising in half a century. The original lawsuit, filed as a RICO case in federal court, argued that it was Greenpeace — not […]
Posted inThink Tanks
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 […]
Posted inLitigation and Law
Climate Cases
In the U.S., the response to climate litigation is often “who cares when this Supreme Court is ultimately going to knock it back anyway?” And the answer is simple: discovery. Discovery is a term that describes the fact-finding phase of civil litigation. During the discovery phase, lawyers can access primary documents, depose current and former […]
Posted inClimate Justice
The Real Free Speech Threat
Around the world, climate and other environmental protestors are being harassed, attacked, and arrested at an increasing rate. Laws are being passed that levy life-altering prison sentences and fines on protestors arrested near anything deemed “critical infrastructure,” which is defined so broadly it’s hard to find a public space that wouldn’t be near it anymore. […]
Posted inAdvertising and PR
Mad Men
To understand the current state of disinformation in the U.S., it helps to know the history of how and why the PR industry was created. In response to a protest, the country’s largest oil company sent in private security teams, who wound up killing several protestors, including women and children. The company’s spokesperson claimed the […]
Posted inClimate Justice
New Oil Colonialism
For decades now, the fossil fuel industry has told the same story: Oil equals development and prosperity. Access. Equality. Stability. A better quality of life. As the world’s fossil fuel companies race to tap the last of the planet’s oil reserves we have a chance to examine that promise up close, in real time. What […]