some features i'm proud of
I've written a lot more than this, but here are some of my all-time favorite pieces.
How the Oil and Gas Industry Smuggles Corporate Propaganda Into Schools (Rolling Stone/Drilled)
STEM lesson plans from Discovery Education provide an efficient model for fossil fuel companies to indoctrinate children.
The Supreme Court has taken the future of an incalculable number of regulations out of the hands of scientists for organizations like the EPA and passed it along to nonexpert judges who will hear challenges to these regulations in court.
Onward touts a vision of a ‘clean energy future’, but experts say ventures like this are part of fossil fuel firms’ greenwashing plan.
How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists (The Nation/Drilled)
A tranche of 4,700 subpoenaed e-mails reveals the ways in which fossil-fuel corporations try to influence the media—and why they all too often succeed.
I Saw the Future of Climate Technology—and Its Big-Oil Investors (The Nation/Drilled)
How the fates of climate-tech start-ups are tangled into the balance sheets of companies who caused the crisis in the first place.
The Latest Culture War Starts With Dead Whales (The New Republic)
The right wing and fossil fuel companies have funded a backlash to wind energy in New Jersey. Is it about to go nationwide?
Big Oil has made small forays into the world of Instagram influencer marketing—but if history is any indication, they're just getting started.
DGR members camped out at a controversial lithium mine site have made transphobic statements—showing how left-oriented transphobia can infiltrate movements.
Chevron-sponsored Permian Proud is providing community news (and corporate propaganda) in one of Texas' most news-starved regions.
The Doctor Can Heal You Now (VICE)
“Healing lives and creating futures,” reads Rick Sponaugle’s website. But a lawsuit filed by the family of Anna Burgess alleges that the alternative doctor prevented her from getting the lifesaving treatment she needed.
Pride at the End of the World (Earther)
It’s impossible for me now to see the climate fight and my queer identity as separable, just as it would look silly to take the green stripe from the rainbow.
As the world gets drier, do we need to turn to the ocean?
At least three big American oil companies—Hess, ConocoPhillips, and Exxon—were major financial contributors to the Fulbright Program in Malaysia.
Haunted by wildfires, a community heals together (Center for Public Integrity)
Despite back-to-back wildfires, Washington’s Methow Valley got no federal disaster mental-health support. So locals did the work themselves.
Understaffed hospitals in Vermont are engaging local law enforcement as security, but their lack of training means people get hurt, citations are issued, and already-strained regions lose access to healthcare.
Medical Residents Demand Covid-19 Hazard Pay (The Intercept)
Faced with the coronavirus pandemic and dangerous working conditions, medical residents are overworked, scared, and beginning to organize.
The Internet's Favorite Congressman Is A Joke (Buzzfeed News)
Rep. Steven Smith of Georgia's 15th District was the first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump and has been a vocal and provocative advocate for the candidate on Twitter. Two things, though: Georgia doesn't have a 15th District and there's no such congressman named Steven Smith. Meet the man behind the myth.
Brooklyn Boulders said it provided "climbing and community for all." Employees said that couldn't be further from the truth. Now the company is rolling out a series of changes to work toward its DEI goals.