“All Hell Breaks Loose”: How Big Oil Ruined a Small Texas Town
This week we're thrilled to be re-publishing a series on our site from The Xylom about a small town in Texas that happens to be the country's top oil export hub. But it wasn't always that way. About 10 years ago, residents bought houses next to a naval base -- maybe not ideal, but they could get a house near the ocean in an affluent, sleepy community. Then the naval base shut down, the export terminals took over and this predominantly white, conservative affluent town became a fenceline community.
Alex Ip, who reported and wrote the series, joins the podcast this week to tell us more.
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New Season: SLAPP'd
This season on Drilled, investigative reporter Alleen Brown brings us the story of an Indigenous nation fighting for its water, an international environmental movement finding its voice, and an industry attempting to crush its political opposition.
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Malcolm Harris on the Radical, Liberating Possibilities of Realism
In his latest book, What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis, Malcolm Harris encourages us to see the climate crisis for the complicated and terrifying problem that it is and tackle it at the scale it deserves. Here, he speaks to reporter Adam Lowenstein about what that looks like and how surprisingly good it can feel.
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Damages: New Evidence and an Update on Climate Liability Cases
A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists compiles in one place all the documentary evidence on the role of fossil fuel companies in obstructing climate policy. We walk through the latest, and get an update on climate cases in the U.S.
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How the U.S. Got the World to View Environmentalists as "Terrorists"
In the finale of our Real Free Speech Threat season, we look at how the U.S. military and its national security agencies have helped stoke a global crackdown on environmental protest, and bring you the inspiring story of one Filipino land defender who's been targeted by the state for years and is still fighting.
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A true-crime podcast about climate change. Reported and hosted by a team of investigative climate journalists, Drilled examines the various obstacles that have kept the world from adequately responding to climate change.
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