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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Honduras' Garifuna people are facing forced displacement from their own land in violation of international court rulings. On this week's The Spill, @ninalakhani.bsky.social talks with Karen Spring from the Honduras Solidarity Network about where the reality TV show Survivor fits in. lnk.to/TheSpill
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Drilled: The Spill
Drilled is a true-crime climate change podcast exposing how corporate corruption and political operatives built decades of climate denial and delay. The Spill is our new weekly show to bring you news...
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Faulty carbon credit schemes may be violating not only human rights but also international law. UN Special Rapporteur on the Climate Elisa Morgera on why carbon credit markets may be in conflict with a landmark opinion from the International Court of Justice. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem | The Spill - Drilled
Carbon credit markets have come under fire for creative climate accounting, fraud, and land use problems. UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera says they have a human rights problem too.
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New from @drilledmedia.bsky.social : carbon credit markets are sold as a climate solution, but their record on emissions and human rights tells a more complicated story. buff.ly/OGIRMZO
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Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem | The Spill
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
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Mila Atmos @milaatmos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@amywestervelt.bsky.social joined me on @futurehindsight.com to talk about how the information ecosystem is so polluted that it’s actually limiting our First Amendment rights! Tune in!!
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tune in to The Spill for my conversation with UN special rapporteur on climate change Elisa Morgera, on the winners & losers of carbon tunnel vision, & why it's not too late to turn things around. Subscribe to @drilledmedia.bsky.social to catch our new weekly show drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem | The Spill
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
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2timesgrumpy_owl @2timesgrumpyowl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I got my book during an out-of-season nor’easter, how’s that for irony? 📕 Ready to be signed by @amywestervelt.bsky.social of @drilledmedia.bsky.social, who’s coming to BOSTON 👀 Thursday, Oct 1 to Boston University! Register for her event at this link: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversa...
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"Thank heaven for this book." —BILL McKIBBEN

AMY WESTERVELT

BROUGHT TO YOU BY
HOW CORPORATIONS WARPED THE TRUTH, CONNED THE PUBLIC, AND BROKE DEMOCRACY
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reason # a million I'm glad I opted to just build my own outlet years ago, where I can say whatever the fuck I want. And will ;) Meanwhile, receipts are in the book and keep an eye out for a new & improved @drilledmedia.bsky.social soon! geni.us/broughttoyouby
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Amy Westervelt, investigative reporter and host of Drilled, shows how the tentacles of corporate propaganda infiltrated our media ecosystem, undermined democracy, and now threaten the very nature of t...
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Climate vocab of the day: Carbon Tunnel Vision—when climate policymakers obsess about reducing carbon emissions, while avoiding the root cause: fossil fuels. UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera on that and more w/ @ninalakhani.bsky.social: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem | The Spill
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
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2timesgrumpy_owl @2timesgrumpyowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
HOT DAMN, @amywestervelt.bsky.social of @drilledmedia.bsky.social is coming to BOSTON & will talk about her vast body of work on corporate disinformation and her new book! Register for the Thursday, October 1 · 3:30 - 5pm Boston University event at this link: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversa...
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A Conversation with Expert & Author Amy Westervelt
"Brought To You By" Explore how corporations use science disinformation for profit and how to counter it and repair democracy.
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Kelly Macnamara @kellymacnamara.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And this jaw dropping @drilledmedia.bsky.social podcast series on climate and the manosphere. I laughed, I cried, I ground my teeth to dust drilled.media/investigatio...
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Carbon Bros
Where the climate crisis meets the crisis of masculinity.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
Oil giant BP not only funded the research behind an influential climate science paper, but company execs even tried to revise versions of it. “Chaps, I have had a go at rewriting the paper,” a BP climate adviser wrote the researchers at one point. (Published June w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social)
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How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy
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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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 19/09/2026
This conversation between @alleenbrown.bsky.social and Aru Shiney-Ajay on @drilledmedia.bsky.social is so damn good. Why and how the Sunrise Movement pivoted to fighting authoritarianism as a necessary step toward climate progress, including how they helped resist ICE's occupation of Minneapolis.
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The Climate Movement Fights Back - Drilled
In this week's episode Alleen Brown speaks with Aru Shiney-Ajay, executive director of The Sunrise Movement about being infiltrated by the feds, why fighting authoritarianism is a climate fight, and m...
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Terrific write-up of the book in @desmog.com today! www.desmog.com/2026/09/21/q...
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Q&A: Amy Westervelt on the Corporate Poisoning of the Information Aquifer — and How to Undo the Harm
Amy Westervelt’s new book Brought To You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy is a must-read for anyone tracking the machinery of climate denial and delay. The...
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Alan Pater @alanpater.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"When you know a preventable crisis is bearing down on you, and you know what to do to stop it, the sensible thing to do is act, not to fiddle around with your shopping list and ignore it."
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
More info on all the winners, including two of my person favorite projects of the last year, the Carbon Bros podcast by @drilledmedia.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social and "The Man Behind the Fall of Offshore Wind" by @fieseler.bsky.social: coveringclimatenow.org/projects/the...
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The 2026 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards — Covering Climate Now
Covering Climate Now is proud to announce the winners of the 2026 CCNow Journalism Awards. Our awards program, now in its sixth year, honors excellent reporting on many critical dimensions of the clim...
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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"How can regular folks evaluate which information to trust, when so many messengers sound credible?" @sammyroth.bsky.social asks @drilledmedia.bsky.social's @amywestervelt.bsky.social: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/artificial... #ClimateSky
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Please enjoy this antidote to the "where is the climate movement?" discourse. Reminder: have a weekly video pod! This week @alleenbrown.bsky.social with @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social's Aru Shiney-Ajay. Last week it was Alleen, @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @ninalakhani.bsky.social youtu.be/LkGEDfSfObM
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The Spill: The Climate Movement Fights Back
YouTube video by Drilled
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 17/09/2026
Work that debunks denial and delay, greenwashing, conspiracy theories, and more, while calling out the powerful interests responsible. 🏆️ Daniel Penny & @amywestervelt.bsky.social | @drilledmedia.bsky.social 🏆️ @fieseler.bsky.social | @canarymedia.com 🏆️ @jurnalista.bsky.social | @desmog.com
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Giorgio Graffino @giorgiograffino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The UN Climate Loss and Damage was set up at COP27 in 2022. It was created to help emerging economies to cope with the increase of extreme weather events caused by human-made climate change, to which they contributed almost nothing, like in Nepal last week. Via @drilledmedia.bsky.social
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Nepal Floods Put Climate Loss and Damage Fund to the Test
An interview with  Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A "woke palace" is simply a house not so poorly constructed that it is no different to sleeping in a tent, apparently.
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 04/09/2026
@drilledmedia.bsky.social has an interview with Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice.
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Nepal Floods Put Climate Loss and Damage Fund to the Test
An interview with  Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice. On the morning of 26 August, a series of flash ...
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In this week's newsletter @rishpardikar.bsky.social interviews Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice. drilled.ghost.io/nepal-floods...
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Nepal Floods Put Climate Loss and Damage Fund to the Test
An interview with  Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice. On the morning of 26 August, a series of flash ...
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Heather Souvaine Horn @hsouvainehorn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"I've never been more shocked by the so-called climate 'movement.' ... It's not just the nonprofit sphere, either, the media has been unbelievably cowardly as well." drilled.ghost.io/the-problem-...
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The Problem Class
Sometime last year, I was asked to participate in a closed door conversation in which a mix of academic researchers, journalists, and climate campaigners were asked to share their unvarnished thoughts...
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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
100+ pages of WhatsApp chats & emails reveal the details of the propaganda effort waged by Energy Transfer's security contractor TigerSwan against the Indigenous led Standing Rock movement. 10 years later and new details continue to emerge www.hcn.org/issues/58-8/... w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social
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Inside Standing Rock’s propaganda war - High Country News
Standing Rock increased division in North Dakota between Indigenous communities and nearby non-Indigenous communities. Propaganda made it worse.
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Gretchen King @gbtking.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Standing Rock was filled with disinformation, and the propaganda campaigns of that time still echo today. @alleenbrown.bsky.social reports for @highcountrynews.org @ @drilledmedia.bsky.social FYI @longreads.com www.hcn.org/issues/58-8/...
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What Standing Rock’s propaganda war means today - High Country News
Standing Rock increased division in North Dakota between Indigenous communities and nearby non-Indigenous communities. Propaganda made it worse.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I previously covered the decision for @drilledmedia.bsky.social, here:
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Australian Court Finds Context Is King in Clearing Oil Company Santos of Greenwashing
Last month Australian courts cleared oil company Santos of greenwashing over claims it produced “clean energy’. Subsequently, fossil fuel companies demanded a “crack down” on green groups.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New miniseries from @alleenbrown.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social out now! A window into the corporate surveillance and propaganda effort against Standing Rock and what it tells us about the world we’re living in today drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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S16, Ep1 | North Dakota’s Facebook Mercenaries
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ten years later, we're still learning more about the terrifying counterinsurgency tactics that Energy Transfer's contractors used to win the public opinion war against Dakota Access Pipeline protesters. Important investigation by @drilledmedia.bsky.social: www.hcn.org/issues/58-8/...
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What Standing Rock’s propaganda war means today - High Country News
Standing Rock increased division in North Dakota between Indigenous communities and nearby non-Indigenous communities. Propaganda made it worse.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In this Golden Age for corporate impunity, the GOP is pushing state-level legislation that would strip people of the right to sue corporations — from oil companies to data center developers to chemical manufacturers. @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/new-zea...
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Desi Doyen/Green News Report @greennewsreport.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“it provides them the thing they most crave: relief from their greatest fear, the unwashed masses rising up against them and insisting on actual democracy. AI's 24-hour surveillance capabilities promise these guys a peaceful night's sleep in their bunkers. That's the permit we should never grant”
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New Zealand faces $4bn in damages a year from natural disasters made worse by climate change. When faced with being taken to court, the country's biggest emitters wrote the law to make the claim go away—a tactic borrowed straight from the United States. New from me in @drilledmedia.bsky.social.
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New Zealand to Become First Country in the World to Lock the Courthouse Door on Climate Change
Borrowing a tactic from the United States, New Zealand will adopt a law authored by industry to give legal immunity for tort claims against fossil fuel producers and big emitters.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
ALSO subscribers to the @drilledmedia.bsky.social Patreon get special early access to some of my favorite scoops: www.patreon.com/Drilled
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Drilled — Independent Climate Accountability Journalism
Get more from Drilled on Patreon. Independent Climate Accountability Journalism. Support Drilled and get exclusive access to their work.
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: The Xylom's @alexip718.com, in collaboration with @floodlightnews.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social @deceleration.news has won an Online Journalism Award for Excellence in Science Reporting (Small/Medium Newsroom) with the series, ‘All Hell Breaks Loose’: How Big Oil Ruined a Small Texas Town
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ten years on from Standing Rock, new reporting from @drilledmedia.bsky.social shows how Energy Transfer’s private security contractor, TigerSwan, sought to use social media to exploit divisions around the movement. drilled.media/news/the-pro...
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What Standing Rock’s Propaganda War Means Today
Ten years after the standoff, exclusive documents reveal that digital mercenaries targeted local communities and stirred up anti-protest sentiment.
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
An investigation by @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social has found that the same modelers who overestimated the potential of CCS repeatedly underestimated solar power - one of the energy technologies that would allow more oil to remain in the ground. projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...
Two line charts are depicted. At the top, the line chart is labeled "Carbon Capture Capacity." The y-axis is "megatons" and the x-axis is years (2010-2040). More than a dozen blue lines show a steady increase from the left edge of the chart to the right edge of the chart. Some of the blue lines exceed 4,000 megatons between years 2030 and 2040. The blue lines are labeled "Projections". A maroon line is at around 0 megatons from 2010 to 2025. The maroon line is labeled "Actual carbon storage". 

The second chart is labeled "Solar Power". The y-axis is "terawatt-hour" and the x-axis is years (2010-2040). Dozens of blue lines increase from around 0 on the left side of the chart, showing moderate growth from 2010 to 2040. The blue lines are labeled "Projections". A maroon line starts at 0 in 2010 and rises sharply to over 2,000 in 2024. The maroon line is obviously increasing much faster than the blue lines. The maroon line is labeled "Actual solar electricity production."
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This week's newsletter is out! A rant + a curated list of #climate content we've been consuming. Sign up via the link below. It's free, but if you pay to support us you can get early access to podcasts and members-only content!
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Maya Weeks, Ph.D. @mayaweeks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Shoutout 2 @amywestervelt.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social 4 being brave enough 2 publicly state, "'the elephant in the room is donors, or what I like to call 'the problem class,' and how much their interests actually align with this administration'" re: climate drilled.ghost.io/the-problem-...
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The Problem Class
Sometime last year, I was asked to participate in a closed door conversation in which a mix of academic researchers, journalists, and climate campaigners were asked to share their unvarnished thoughts...
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Screenshot from this memo, unearthed by @themadstone.bsky.social @propublica.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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2012.9.23 CMI renewal annex years 16-20
This document was obtained by reporter Maddie Stone as part of an investigative series from ProPublica and Drilled called "Carbon Captured."
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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
How the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself: "Carbon Captured" @propublica.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social (Plus- Raspberry Beret) Face facts: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/06/y...
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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
#RealHeroes @drilledmedia.bsky.social Vs #ClimateCriminals
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/07/2026
For carbon capture to work as envisioned, the world would need to devote almost unimaginable resources. Even then, it might still prove impossible to trap so much carbon dioxide inside the earth. Yet the oil industry still pushed it as a solution. with @drilledmedia.bsky.social
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False Promises: The “Solution” to the Climate Crisis That Won’t Work
As global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound pr...
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“It’s part and parcel of all the aspects of [Western Australia] because it’s coming at you from every single direction. Sport, now education—it’s everywhere, this complete takeover by the oil & gas industry. This is the state capture that we see around us.” @drilledmedia.bsky.social
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“It’s By Stealth, Isn’t It?” The Multi-Million Dollar Effort by Australia Fossil Fuel Companies To Get Into Schools
Australian oil, gas and coal companies want to get into school to shape what kids learn about their industry and climate change. One group has been trying to map the scale of the problem.
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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Thanks to @drilledmedia.bsky.social and @roycerk2.bsky.social for this coverage of our Cradle to Career report. 🧑‍🏫 drilled.media/news/austral...
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“It’s By Stealth, Isn’t It?” The Multi-Million Dollar Effort by Australia Fossil Fuel Companies To Get Into Schools
Australian oil, gas and coal companies want to get into school to shape what kids learn about their industry and climate change. One group has been trying to map the scale of the problem.
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Fred Nurk @f2r3e5d4.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Wind Turbines Kill Birds?! The year 2000 called and it wants its disinformation back, @patsimons.bsky.social c/o @drilledmedia.bsky.social. How many bird deaths has Australia caused being the largest consumers per capita of diesel + coal? What is being done about them? drilled.media/news/disinfo...
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The Drilled Guide to Global Climate Disinformation
The terms and narratives the fossil fuel industry is using to obstruct climate action.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Cracking @drilledmedia.bsky.social read from @roycerk2.bsky.social on @commsdeclare.bsky.social report, From Cradle to Career, which maps Australian Oil, Gas & Coal companies' multimillion dollar, decades-long efforts to shape what kids learn about the fossil fuel industry & climate change
Image of Tony Abbott in suit and tie holding open a large format book, surrounded by four young children at the launch of “The Big Book of Oil and Gas” produced by the oil industry at a Canberra school in May/June 1997
On the back cover of the book, you can see the logo for AIP - Australian Institute of Petroleum
The four children look like they'd rather be elsewhere doing something else

Caption of the image reads: Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Education, Mr Tony Abbott MP investigates The Big Book of Oil and Gas with a group of students, following the book's launch at Hughes Primary School, Canberra
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Fossil fuel companies didn't fund CCS research because they thought it would work. They funded it because it gave them a reason to keep drilling. via @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social
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False Promises: Why carbon capture and storage won’t fix our climate crisis.
For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored…
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Oakland Institute @oaklandinstitute.org · 16/07/2026
@globalwitness.org @desmog.com @mongabay.com @brettonwoodsproject.org @politico.com @levernews.com @drilledmedia.bsky.social @bellingcat.com @theguardian.com
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Make Polluters Pay @polluterspay.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A scientific paper that made solving climate change seem possible was significantly shaped by oil giant BP — one of the single global entities most responsible for causing climate change. BP sponsored a Princeton research center and even handpicked scientists. @drilledmedia.bsky.social
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How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy
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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Aalia Mauro @aaliamauro.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Europe will regulate your stove, your car, your thermostat, and your plastic straw. But private jets are green you clueless poors.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The chart is part of this great dataviz by PP and @drilledmedia.bsky.social projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...
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False Promises: The “Solution” to the Climate Crisis That Won’t Work
As global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound pr...
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