Ranked #1
S3, Ep 1: The Father of Public Relations
S3, Ep 1: The Father of Public Relations
In this season we're tackling Big Oil's big propaganda machine—its origins, the spin masters who created it, and why it'... Read more
21 Jan 2020
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17mins
Ranked #2
Weaponizing False Equivalence
Weaponizing False Equivalence
As climate disinformation campaigns ramped up in the 1990s, oil companies and their PR firms exploited weaknesses in the... Read more
16 Oct 2016
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Fake Reporters and #FakeNews: How Fossil Fuel Companies Hide Behind Energy Blogs
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A look at how those fossil fuel-backed deception campaigns are continuing today, behind a couple layers of energy indust... Read more
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S3, Ep 2: The Oil-Nazi-Propaganda Triangle
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Ivy Lee worked with Standard Oil and the Rockefellers for the rest of his life, helping to establish the American Petrol... Read more
21 Jan 2020
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Aggressive Think Tanks, Shouty Pundits, and a New Religious Argument
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To make media manipulation and lobbying truly effective, oil companies and their public relations firms also had to shif... Read more
17 Nov 2016
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The First Step to Influencing Policy: Setting Research Agendas
The First Step to Influencing Policy: Setting Research Agendas
If you unravel climate policy back to its origins, eventually you get to academic research. Although oil companies drama... Read more
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Campaigns So Successful They've Landed in Court
Campaigns So Successful They've Landed in Court
The fossil fuel industry's decades-long information war was so successful that even though oil companies themselves bega... Read more
17 Nov 2017
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There Will Be Fraud: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Turned into Christmas for Big Oil
There Will Be Fraud: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Turned into Christmas for Big Oil
The oil and gas industry was headed for broke long before COVID-19. Now the Trump administration wants to use the pandem... Read more
28 Mar 2020
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S2E1: A Crisis, a Cover-Up, and a Community on the Front Lines of Climate Change
S2E1: A Crisis, a Cover-Up, and a Community on the Front Lines of Climate Change
In 2015, West Coast crab fishermen were shut down by climate change. Atmospheric changes had warmed waters and upended e... Read more
22 Apr 2019
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S3, Ep 3: Psychological Warfare, Astroturfing, and Another Tobacco-Oil Connection
S3, Ep 3: Psychological Warfare, Astroturfing, and Another Tobacco-Oil Connection
Daniel Edelman learned the tools of his trade combating Nazi propaganda in WWII, then came home and put his psychologica... Read more
28 Jan 2020
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25 Mar 2020
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New Research Shows Fossil Fuels Are Not As Essential As The Industry Would Like You to Believe
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Dr. Julia Steinberger, professor of social ecology and ecological economics at the University of Leeds, has published so... Read more
7 Apr 2020
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Big Oil Is Ramping Up PR Spend and Oil Production
Big Oil Is Ramping Up PR Spend and Oil Production
Two new reports highlight that, since the Paris Agreement in 2016, the fossil fuel industry has ramped up both oil produ... Read more
15 Aug 2019
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How Big Oil Is Using the Pandemic to Push More Plastic
How Big Oil Is Using the Pandemic to Push More Plastic
In a new report, the Center for International Environmental Law looks at the way oil, gas and petrochemical companies ar... Read more
16 Apr 2020
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S3, Ep 4: Oil Slick, Part 1—The Rise of the Corporate Persona
S3, Ep 4: Oil Slick, Part 1—The Rise of the Corporate Persona
Mobil Oil's longtime PR guy Herb Schmertz really started to aggressively manipulate the media. He introduced so many new... Read more
4 Feb 2020
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22mins
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S3, Ep 5: Oil Slick, Part 2—False Equivalence and Free Speech
S3, Ep 5: Oil Slick, Part 2—False Equivalence and Free Speech
In part two of our episode on former Mobil VP Herb Schmertz, we dig into how Schmertz's approach bred false equivalence,... Read more
11 Feb 2020
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18mins
Ranked #19
Reporter Justin Mikulka on Why ExxonMobil and Chevron Are the Biggest Opponents to a Shale Gas Bailout
Reporter Justin Mikulka on Why ExxonMobil and Chevron Are the Biggest Opponents to a Shale Gas Bailout
The American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil and Chevron have been amongst the biggest opponents to bailouts for shale g... Read more
1 Apr 2020
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17mins
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S3, Ep 6: Manipulating the Masses and Predicting the Future—Edward Bernays and W. Howard Chase
S3, Ep 6: Manipulating the Masses and Predicting the Future—Edward Bernays and W. Howard Chase
Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, coined the term "public relations" when propaganda started to become a negative ... Read more
25 Feb 2020
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29mins
