Held Hostage by Fracking: Colorado Seniors Shelter In Place
As shelter-in-place orders went into effect, residents of Broomfield, Colorado faced exposure to flowback-driven air pollution thanks to their proximity to oil and gas operations. When the city issued...
15 Huhti 202010min
New Research Shows Fossil Fuels Are Not As Essential As The Industry Would Like You to Believe
Fossil fuel use has certainly grown GDP, but it has had no effect on life expectancy. In other words, the industry's "benefit" has acrrued to relatively few humans.Dr. Julia Steinberger, professor of ...
7 Huhti 202021min
Texas Shale Refineries Release "Unimaginable" Amounts of Methane Emissions
Field investigator Sharon Wilson has spotted a troubling increase in methane emissions from refineries in the Permian Basin, in Texas. Things went from bad to worse in January 2020, and really blew up...
3 Huhti 202012min
Why ExxonMobil and Chevron Oppose a Shale Gas Bailout
The American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil and Chevron have been amongst the biggest opponents to bailouts for shale gas companies as part of the coronavirus relief package. DeSmog's Justin Mikulka ...
1 Huhti 202014min
How Big Oil Exploited the COVID-19 Pandemic
The oil and gas industry was headed for financial collapse long before COVID-19, but now the Trump administration wants to use the pandemic to put it on life support. Meanwhile, the American Petroleum...
28 Maalis 202022min
From Hot Take: Seeing Climate Through Coronavirus Glasses with David Wallace-Wells
Hot Take hosts Mary Annaise Heglar and Amy Westervelt talk to David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth and deputy editor of New York magazine, about the intersection of climate change an...
25 Maalis 20201h 34min
Tackling Disinformation: Jay Rosen & Nicholas Johnson on the Media’s Role
What can be done about Big Oil disinformation now? New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen and former FCC commissioner Nicholas Johnson join us to talk about everything from the Fairness Do...
29 Helmi 202029min
Meet the Harrisons: Architects of Greenwashing and Environmental PR
E. Bruce and Patricia Harrison launched the E. Bruce Harrison Company in 1973, working for a mix of chemical companies, oil and gas companies, and tobacco companies. E. Bruce is considered the father ...
28 Helmi 202029min
