Source: Drilled
The Drilled team has been busy this week! We’ve put out six major stories across as many days:
- Research or Lobbying? New Documents Reveal What Fossil Fuel Companies Are Really Paying for at Top Universities – Molly Taft’s deep dive into what a new tranche of documents from the bicameral investigation into fossil fuel disinformation tells about how and why Big Oil invests in university research.
- Information Pollution: A Primer – An explanatory piece we first published a few years back, but updated in light of this week’s hearing on fossil fuel disinformation. Because of course every time fossil fuel disinfo is in the media, the idea that “Big Oil is copying Big Tobacco’s playbook,” gets trotted out and I get annoyed.
- Senate Democrats Step Up Pressure on Big Oil – The first (and hopefully not last!) Drilled piece from the great Rebecca Leber, who covered this week’s hearing for us.
- On LNG, the Opportunity for an “Exxon Knew” Do-Over – A deep dive into what these new documents tell us about what oil companies know about LNG and how it contradicts what they’re saying publicly and what they’re lobbying for.
- In Backlash to Campus Pro-Palestine Protests, Echoes of Standing Rock and the Global Crackdown on Climate Protest – A genius feature from Alleen Brown, connecting the dots between the global crackdown on climate protest and the violent response to campus protests across the U.S. this week, making her case with stunning new Standing Rock documents (co-published with the Center for Media and Democracy)
- How the Oil and Gas Industry Smuggles Corporate Propaganda into Schools – The culmination of a couple years’ worth of digging into Discovery Education, one of the fossil fuel industry’s favorite partners on educational curricula, a terrific Molly Taft piece co-published with Rolling Stone.
