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The Saudi Arabia of Biofuels

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Into the Amazon

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The Brazilian Midwest

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The Ethanol Kingpin of Iowa

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The Carbon Gold Rush

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Welcome to Carbon Cowboys

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Fossil-fueled Fascism

8

On Petromasculinity and Protest

9

Never Let a War Go to Waste

10

Drilling Deep: Karen Hao on How Big AI Is Gambling with the Planet’s Chips

11

10 Years After Berta Cáceres’s Murder, Why Is Honduras Still So Dangerous for Environmentalists?

12

Just Because the U.S. Says It's Legal Doesn't Make It So: Companies Trading in Illegally Seized Venezuelan Oil Face Legal Risk

13

How Climate Protest Backlash Led to Present-Day Repression

14

A "Green Transition"? If Only It Were That Simple

15

Introducing Lawless Planet: "Surveillance and Sabotage on the Dakota Access Pipeline"

16

Drilling Deep: John Vaillant on Climate Change and Wildfire

17

The Norwegian Paradox: Norway's Fossil Fuel Dilemma

18

How Climate Activists Successfully Fight Obstruction

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How Litigation Works to Fight Climate Obstruction

20

Drlling Deep: Uruguay's Renewable Energy System with Natasha Hakimi Zapata

21

COP Out: What the Heck Happened at COP30?

22

How and Why Climate Adaptation Measures Get Blocked

23

Carbon Bros Mailbag: Navigating Traditional Male Spaces and the Benefits of Solidarity

24

Drilling Deep: Jessica Green on Why We Need More Confrontation at COP

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The Corruption of COP: Inside Climate Obstruction at the UN

26

Norway Beyond Oil: Climate, Policy, Society

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How Climate Obstruction Works at the Local Level

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Climate Obstruction in the Global South

29

Challenging the Narratives

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Drilling Deep: Karen House on Saudi Arabia Under Mohammed bin Salman

31

Abdul El-Sayed on Climate Complexities and Benevolent Masculinity

32

Petroganda: How the Oil Industry Is Shaping Norway's Politics and Culture

33

How the Animal Agriculture Industry Blocks Methane Regulation

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How the Coal, Utilities, and Transportation Industries Block Climate Policy

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Introducing The Black Thread: The Norwegians

36

Facing Climate Despair: How to Cope with Wen Stephenson

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How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sabotages Climate Action

38

How The Media Drives Climate Obstruction

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Why Misinformation Works: The Psychology Behind Climate Disinformation

40

How Rightwing Populism and Accelerationism Fuels Climate Denial

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Why Political Will is the Real Barrier to Climate Action

42

Drilling Deep: The Golden Age of Oil-Funded Influence with Casey Michel

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The "Carbon Dominance" Strategy Behind Trump's Anti-Renewables Actions

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Integration: Bringing Men Into the Climate Movement

45

Why Is the Fossil Fuel Industry Funding Anti-Trans Politics?

46

The SLAPP Heard 'Round the World: Standing Rock Verdict

47

Climate Hysteria and “Boy Math”: Masculinity, Tech Fixes, and Gendered Climate Solutions

48

Sacred Sites: Defending Indigenous Spaces

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How "Energy Dominance" Became a Gendered Climate Narrative

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The Testosterone Pipeline: How the Manosphere Fuels Climate Denial

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Back to the Water: Pipeline Impacts and Indigenous Concerns

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Introducing: The Outlaw Ocean | A war on migration, funded by the EU (Libya Pt. 1)

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Hanna E. Morris on Apocalyptic Authoritarianism and Media Bias

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Coming Soon: Carbon Bros—Men and Climate Denial in America

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The Charge: What Greenpeace Is Accused Of

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The Trial Begins: Jury Selection

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How We Got Here: Standing Rock, Greenpeace, and the $666 Million Lawsuit

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"All Hell Breaks Loose": How Big Oil Ruined a Small Texas Town

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Coming Soon: SLAPP'D—Corporate Power vs. Indigenous Rights

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Malcolm Harris on Realism and Radical Possibilities in the Climate Crisis

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From Damages: New Evidence and Updates on U.S. Climate Liability Cases

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How the U.S. Helped the World Label Environmentalists as "Terrorists"

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Coming Soon: The Man-o-Sphere

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New Research on Fossil Fuel Sponsored Content and Media Misleading Practices

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Shell’s Climate Case: The Win, the Loss, and What It Means for Future Global Climate Litigation

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From Fuel to Fork: How the Oil and Gas Industry Drives Food-Based Emissions

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How Climate Language Shapes Climate Politics with Genevieve Guenther

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Climate Week 2024: Taking on the Mad Men of Big Oil

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How Fossil-Funded University Research Shapes Climate Policy

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Climate and Project 2025: Mary Annaïse Heglar & Amy Westervelt on Spill

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The Battle Over the Clean Air Act

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How Big Oil Sold a “Climate Solution” and Stuck Taxpayers with the Bill

73

Silencing Activists: How an El Savador Cold Case Murder Became a Tool to Criminalize Activism

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From Damages: Could Oil Companies Be Charged with Murder?

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The Great “Greening” of LNG: How Fossil Fuel Lobbying Fuels Climate Delay

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How Management Consultancies Data-Wash Climate Solutions

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The Coordinated Attack on Shareholder Activism

78

Climate News Update: New Carbon Majors Report and Swiss Elders' Historic Win

79

Sainte-Soline and the Government Crackdown on France’s Earth Uprisings

80

The United States Anti-Renewables Movement, Explained

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Shell, Oil Colonialism, and the Ongoing Struggle of Nigeria’s Environmental Activists

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What Ecuador's Yasuní Referendum Really Means for Oil, in Yasuní and Beyond

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Introducing: Hazard NYC

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The Past, Present, and Future of Climate Protest with Dana R. Fisher

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The "EcoTerrorist" Panic

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Meet the United Nations' First Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders

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How UK Courts Became the New Battleground for Climate Protest

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What Happened At Bayou Bridge? The Other End of the Dakota Access Pipeline

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Seven Years Later: The Dakota Access Pipeline Environmental Impact Statement

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Modern-Day Bead Trading: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Co-opts Indigenous Protest in Canada

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Living on the Frontlines of War and Climate Crisis: Abeer Butmeh in Palestine

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Messy Conversations: Magatte Wade on Africa, Climate, and Free Speech

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The Tomato Soup “Controversy”: Do Disruptive Climate Protests Actually Work?

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Why Indigenous Land Defenders Face Repression

95

Guyana Gas-to-Energy Project: Who Really Benefits?

96

Joanna Smith on "Conspiring Against the United States" with Finger paint

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Living with Loss: Climate Damage in Nigeria

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How Think Tanks Paved the Way to Criminalize Climate Protest

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Vietnam's Tax Evasion Charges Are Used to Jail Climate Activists

100

Australia’s State-by-State Crackdown on Climate Protest

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The Corporate Push to Criminalize Speech

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Disha Ravi on Becoming the Face of "Radical" Protest in India

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How the Media Has Helped to Criminalize Climate Protest with Evlondo Cooper

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Coming Soon: The Real Free Speech Threat

105

The Next Citizens United Will Be a Climate Case

106

A Legal Strategy: How Mobil Oil Fought for Corporate Free Speech

107

The Panic: How Mobil Oil Changed Advertising Forever

108

"Cancer Alley" Fiights Back

109

The Anti-ESG Campaign Gets a Boost from RAGA

110

Jake Bittle on the Complexities of Climate Migration

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Rethinking Electrification

112

A Verdict

113

The Turning Point: What's Next for Guyana?

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The Global Oil Rush

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ExxonMobil's Greenwashing Playbook

116

Global Poverty and Global Warming

117

Constitutional Violation: Guyana's Climate Lawsuit

118

Unlimited Liability: The Guyanese Lawyer Taking on ExxonMobil

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The Contract: Inside ExxonMobil's Guyana Oil Deal

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The Bloom: Finding Oil in Guyana

121

New Season Coming Soon: Light, Sweet Crude

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Guyana: Life Inside a Ticking Carbon Bomb

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Rep. Ro Khanna: Inside the House Climate Disinformation Investigation

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Climate RICO Lawsuit & James Hansen Sues EPA: Two Groundbreaking Cases

125

Loss and Damage at COP 27

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Why Is One of Big Oil's Top Greenwashing PR Firms Handling Media for COP 27?

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COP 27: How to Neutralize Climate Disinformation

128

Universities Are Saying No to Big Oil Money

129

Widening the Lens of Accountability: Live with Naomi Oreskes, Jennifer Jacquet, Dr. David Michaels, Geoffry Supran, and Jessica Wentz

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Congressional Hearings on Climate Disinformation Reveal Industry PR Playbook

131

West Virginia Leads on Climate Obstruction

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The Supreme Court's Continued Climate Take

133

"Woke Capital": A New Front in Climate Obstructionism

134

What the IPCC Really Said About Carbon Dioxide Removal

135

West Virginia vs. EPA: Worst-Case Scenario and What Comes Next

136

The "Culture War" Embraces Climate

137

Regulating Greenhouse Gases Under TSCA

138

Why Is a California Air Board Funding Natural Gas Expansion?

139

Senator Whitehouse on Right-Wing Think Tanks Manipulation

140

The Diaster Capitalism Response to Russia-Ukraine

141

Australia's "Gas-Fired Recovery," Carbon Capture, and Greenwashing

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The Los Angeles Ports Astroturfing Scheme

143

Exposing an Energy Front Group

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The New Climate Villains

145

A Busload of COVID

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Climate One Collaboration: Breaking Down Climate Misinformation

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IPCC Report: Conflicts of Interest, Media Manipulation and More

148

Responsibilities Not Rights: A Tūhoe Perspective

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Ecuador's Landmark Rights of Nature Ruling

150

Los Cedros: The Cloud Forest vs. The Mine

151

West Virginia vs. EPA: Worst-Case Scenario and What Comes Next

152

A Brief History of Rights of Nature in the United States

153

Drilled Presents: Damages

154

The Right-Wing Web of Climate Delay

155

An Update on the Youth Climate Lawsuit

156

Exxon Takes Its First Amendment Battle to the Texas Supreme Court

157

Reclaiming Environmentalism

158

Climate Crisis, Meet Democracy Crisis

159

Drilled Presents | Scene on Radio, The Repair | Episode 9: Pachamama

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The Influence Industry and Climate Obstruction

161

One PR Firm Works on More Climate Obstruction Than Any Other

162

Fracking the Outback: Australia's Plan to Go Big on Fracking and Plastic

163

Melissa Aronczyk on the History of Greenwashing

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Climate Education in the U.S. with Katie Worth

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Fighting Back Against Big Oil in Education

166

Ben Franta on Big Oil in College

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Big Oil on Campus

168

Big Oil's High School Agenda

169

S5 Update: Donziger Sentenced to Six Months in Jail

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How Big Oil Targets Elementary School

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The First Day of School

172

Drilled + Earther: The ABCs of Big Oil

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Whack-A-Mole

174

Keeping Oil Alive

175

And Then There Was COVID

176

Fighting Formosa in Louisiana

177

Don't Mess with Texas

178

Coming Soon: The Bridge to Nowhere

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Update: Steven Donziger's Trial in New York

180

How Big Oil Made You Feel Guilty About Climate Change

181

The Heath Impacts of the Coal-to-Gas Transition: Harvard's New Study

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Rep. Ro Khanna on Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

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Update: The Latest Developments in the Steven Donziger Case

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Corporate Personhood? What About Ecosystem Personhood

185

Infrastructure Week: Build Back Better, the THRIVE Act, and Climate Justice with Kaniela Ing

186

All Eyes on Weymouth: FERC Signals Interest in Environmental Justice

187

How the Fossil Fuel Industry is Undermining Free Speech

188

Frackalachia: The Fracking Jobs Myth in Appalachia

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The API Was Pushing Climate Denial Way Earlier Than Anyone Thought

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¿Ahora Que?: What's Next for Donziger, Chevron and Ecuador

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The Kill Step: Chevron Fights the Ecuadorian Government

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The Judge: Corruption Charges Hit the Courts

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Damages: Chevron's Shocking Racketeering Claim

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The Linchpin: Joe Berlinger

195

Big Oil's Bad Bet on Plastic

196

Update: Steven Donziger Faces Criminal Contempt with No Representation

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The Charge: Chevron Faces a Verdict

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The Big Guns: Chevron's Legal Offensive

199

The Secret Tribunal: Chevron vs. Ecuador

200

The Trial: Oil and Justice in Ecuador

201

The Colonizers: How Oil and Missionaries Shaped the Amazon

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La Lucha En La Jungla: Pollution in the Amazon

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Big Oil vs. Divestment

204

Bribery and Bailouts: The Ohio Utility Scandal

205

The Netherlands Considers a Fossil Fuel Advertising Ban

206

Fracking Giant Chesapeake Energy Declares Bankruptcy

207

Minnesota and D.C. File Climate Fraud Suits

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Big Oil's Multi-Billion-Dollar Blind Spot

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From Hot Take: Yes, We Still Need to Talk About Climate

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Naomi Klein on "Disaster Capitalism" in America

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New Investigation Finds Shell Directly Funded Climate Denial

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From Hot Take: Why the GOP's "Climate Lockdown" Narrative is Wrong

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The Death of Fred Singer and the Endurance of Climate Deniers

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A Lawsuit Could Force FERC to Consider Climate Impacts of New Oil and Gas Projects

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What Planet of the Humans Gets Wrong About Climate Change

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Earth Day in Louisiana: A Petro-state Fights Back

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Art, Autodesk, and What Accountability Looks Like for the Tech Industry

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How Big Oil is Using COVID-19 to Push Plastic

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Held Hostage by Fracking: Colorado Seniors Shelter In Place

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New Research Shows Fossil Fuels Are Not As Essential As The Industry Would Like You to Believe

221

Texas Shale Refineries Release "Unimaginable" Amounts of Methane Emissions

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Why ExxonMobil and Chevron Oppose a Shale Gas Bailout

223

How Big Oil Exploited the COVID-19 Pandemic

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From Hot Take: Seeing Climate Through Coronavirus Glasses with David Wallace-Wells

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Tackling Disinformation: Jay Rosen & Nicholas Johnson on the Media’s Role

226

Meet the Harrisons: Architects of Greenwashing and Environmental PR

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The Tobacco-Oil-Plastic Triangle

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The Origins of Corporate PR Manipulation

229

Guardian Bans Fossil Fuel Ads: Emily Atkin Talks with CEO Anna Bateson

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Oil Slick, Part 2: False Equivalence and Free Speech

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Oil Slick, Part 1: Mobil's PR Mastermind and the Rise of the Corporate Persona

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Psychological Warfare and Big Oil

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The Oil-Nazi-Propaganda Triangle

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The Father of Public Relations

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Coming Soon: The Mad Men of Climate Denial

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Youth Climate Suits and Inter-generational Injustice

237

ExxonMobil NY Fraud Trial Recap: What the Verdict Means for Big Oil

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Fake Reporters and Energy Blogs: How Big Oil Spins Climate News

239

Big Oil Ramps Up PR Spend and Oil Production

240

Facing Extinction

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David vs. Goliath

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Taking Big Oil to Court

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Two Lawsuits, One Industry: Crab Fishermen Take on Big Oil

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West Coast Crab Fisheries Face a Shaky Future

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West Coast Crab Fishermen vs. Big Oil

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Coming Soon: Hot Water

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Big Oil’s First Amendment Defense: Can Climate Denial Be Protected Speech?

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Winning the War: Fighting Back Against Decades of Climate Delay

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Climate Denial Campaigns So Successful They’re Now in Court

250

The First Step to Influencing Policy: Setting Research Agendas

251

Shaping Culture and Faith: How Big Oil Influenced Climate Conversations

252

Weaponizing False Equivalence

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The Turn: How Big Oil Shifted from Innovation to Climate Denial

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The Bell Labs of Energy: How Exxon Led Early Climate Research

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Exploiting Scientists' Kryptonite: How Oil Companies Weaponized Uncertainty

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Drilled: A True Crime Podcast About Climate Change