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Today: #90 in Science on our combined chart.

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Oct 21#90#69#69
Oct 20#96#73#78
Oct 19#100#76#77
Oct 18#97#72#71
Oct 17#95#66#72
Oct 16#101#81#96
Oct 15#102#79#77

Latest episodes

  • The Paradox of Mining Lithium to Save the Planet | The Spill

    October 16, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

    Most proposals to keep fossil fuels in the ground rely on taking new minerals out of the ground — especially lithium, a major component in the batteries powering electric vehicles. In Thea Riofrancos' book, Extraction, she visits the…

  • How Tech Billionaires Broke Democracy | The Spill

    October 9, 2026 · 37 min

    Tech billionaires have increasing influence over all aspects of our lives, and it's not by accident. Amy Westervelt and Gil Durán both recently published books examining the ideas and individuals driving the phenomenon. They discuss what…

  • Garifuna land defenders vs. Survivor (as in the TV show) | The Spill

    October 2, 2026 · 47 min

    Amy Westervelt, Nina Lakhani and Alleen Brown chat about Standing Rock 10 years later, Global Witness's latest report on assassinations of land defenders, and why Palestinians in Gaza are land defenders, too. Meanwhile, Afro-Indigenous…

  • Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem | The Spill

    September 25, 2026 · 40 min

    Drilled global climate justice reporter Nina Lakhani interviews Elisa Morgera, the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change about Morgera’s latest report on the fundamental shortcomings of credit markets. Posed as a solution to the climate…

  • The Climate Movement Fights Back | The Spill

    September 18, 2026 · 42 min

    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 more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for…

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  • Welcome to "The Spill," Our New Weekly Newscast

    September 11, 2026 · 48 min

    Amy Westervelt, Nina Lakhani and Alleen Brown on the world on fire, how the media is covering the climate crisis, what's happening with the industry as a whole, and how it all relates to rising authoritarianism. The Spill is our new weekly…

  • Episode 3: The Story of a Decade-Long Investigation

    September 8, 2026 · 40 min

    Alleen could only put together a story like this because she's stayed on the beat for a decade, building relationships and hunting for documents. At the 10-year anniversary of the Standing Rock movement, she gives us a look at why it's…

  • Episode 2: The Real Outside Agitators of Iowa

    September 1, 2026 · 44 min

    The pipeline has been built, the protest camps disbanded, but the fight isn't over. As pipeline opponents set up a new camp in Iowa, the Tiger Swan propagandists follow them, this time with the help of an undercover infiltrator. A WhatsApp…

  • Episode 1: North Dakota’s Facebook Mercenaries

    August 25, 2026 · 38 min

    As protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline began to grow in North Dakota, a new seemingly grassroots Facebook page emerged. In this episode we meet the hired gun behind it, Robert Rice, who was working for the pipeline company's…

  • Welcome to The Propagandist

    August 11, 2026 · 2 min

    10 years ago, rural North Dakota became the hub of one of the largest Indigenous-led protests in decades, and one of the largest climate protests ever in U.S. history: Standing Rock. What started as a protest against a pipeline turned into…

  • The Ethanol Kingpin of Iowa

    May 19, 2026 · 32 min

    Bruce's venture in Brazil isn't the first time he tried to go global. What an earlier attempt tells us about him, his business, and what's ahead for both Iowa and "the Brazilian Midwest."This season is a collaboration with the Intercept…

  • The Carbon Gold Rush

    May 12, 2026 · 27 min

    As his American company Summit Carbon Solutions struggles with backlash to a carbon capture pipeline linking corn ethanol plants across the Midwest, Bruce Rastetter is not slowing down. Instead, he’s celebrating some big wins for his…

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About the show

Drilled is a true-crime climate change podcast exposing how corporate corruption and political operatives built decades of climate denial and delay. Hosted and reported by award-winning investigative climate journalists and led by Amy Westervelt, each season unravels new evidence of deception, disinformation, and the power structures keeping real climate solutions out of reach.