How Oil Propaganda Sneaks Into TV Shows | Climate Town

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If you want to learn more about oil & gas propaganda, you have to check out Drilled from Amy Westervelt and her team: https://drilled.media/

And if you want to learn more about the oil industry in the Permian Basin, check out Boomtown from Christian Wallace and Texas Monthly: https://www.texasmonthly.com/podcasts/series/boomtown/

Here’s a list of some climate journalists/publications/writers we highly recommend:
Center for Climate Integrity: https://climateintegrity.org/
Hiroko Tabuchi (at the New York Times): https://www.nytimes.com/by/hiroko-tabuchi
Oliver Milman (at the Guardian): https://www.theguardian.com/profile/oliver-milman
Grist: https://grist.org/
Heated (from Emily Atkin): https://heated.world/
Canary Media: https://www.canarymedia.com/
Hannah Ritchie: https://hannahritchie.com/
The Climate Brink: https://www.theclimatebrink.com/

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