Explore the push to criminalize environmental and climate protest, the tactics used by extractive industries and the framing of opponents as criminal threats. Learn about the redefinition of violence to include harm to property, the chilling effect on environmental activism, and the criminalization of activists opposing oil pipelines.

Evlondo Cooper, Media Matters senior researcher, discusses how flawed media coverage has helped the fossil fuel industry criminalize climate protest. The podcast explores the influence of media on public perception of climate activism, the lack of coverage on the criminalization of climate protests, and the media's role in overlooking the funding and influence of the fossil fuel industry. It emphasizes the need for understanding, context, and rapid improvement in media reporting on climate change and environmental issues.

This podcast explores the criminalization of environmental protests in the US, focusing on the Standing Rock protests and the subsequent anti-protest legislation. It discusses the debate around property destruction as a form of protest, the influence of the Standing Rock protests on indigenous sovereignty and other pipeline protests, the passing of anti-protest legislation in Oklahoma, and the blurred line between protest and terrorism.

Around the world, climate and other environmental protestors are being harassed, attacked, and arrested at an alarming rate. Laws are being passed that levy life-altering prison sentences and fines on protestors arrested near anything deemed “critical infrastructure,” which is defined so broadly it’s hard to find a public space that wouldn’t be near it anymore. Corporations are suing protestors and NGOs, comparing protest to organized crime. Governments are growing increasingly comfortable branding environmental protestors as “domestic terrorists.” And so far the media is largely participating in the rhetorical “othering” of protestors, opting in most cases to focus on the disruption that protest causes rather than the change it seeks, and to marginalize activists. In this print and audio series we’ll take an in-depth look at how climate protest has evolved in recent years, where this backlash is coming from, how it’s grown so quickly, and what it feels like to be someone who’s concerned enough about the future of humanity to join a protest, only to find themselves facing police violence and several years in jail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In more than 30 climate cases making their way through U.S. courts today, oil companies are using an argument they've been laying the legal groundwork for since the 1970s: that since everything they've ever said about climate change was in the interest of shaping policy or blocking regulation, it's protected speech, even if it was misleading. In this episode we take a look at how those cases are playing out and the likelihood that this new take on "corporate free speech" could make it all the way to the Supreme Court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Worried that all their work creating Mobil's personality and a multi-pronged issue advertising campaign to go with it would go to waste if the TV networks deemed it all "propaganda" Herb and his boss looked to the courts for protection. In this episode we follow the "corporate free speech" movement through the courts, where it got a big assist from tobacco lobbyist-turned-Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the 1970s, Mobil Oil had invented the advertorial and was aggressively pursuing an entirely new type of marketing, branding the company as a person with a unique personality and opinions that deserved to be heard. When public backlash threatened to undermine their approach, they launched a campaign that would change the course of U.S. history. Transcript Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ExxonMobil, Chevron and other petrochemical giants are increasingly organizing against grassroots environmental justice activism in Louisiana that are part of the Beyond Petrochemicals campaign. The companies have joined with pro-industry politicians and local Chambers of Commerce to form a “sustainability council,” focused not on environmental sustainability but on the longevity of the petrochemical industry on Louisiana's Gulf Coast.  Jo Banner of The Descendants Project and Shamyra Lavigne of RISE St. James, two key organizers in the area, join us to talk about why the industry is suddenly organizing against them.Read more in The Guardian and Floodlight News exposé here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/04/cancer-alley-louisiana-environment-oil-industry-oppositionAd codes: tryfirstleaf.com/drilled - 50% off first 6 bottles plus free shipping from First Leaf athleticgreens.com/drilled - free year's supply of vitamin D + 5 free travel packs of AG1 from Athletic Greens earthbreeze.com/drilled - 40% off EarthBreeze laundry detergent Eco Sheets airdoctorpro.com and use promo code DRILLED and depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off expressvpn.com/drilled for 3 extra months free on your VPN subscription Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever since the Securities and Exchange Commission announced its intention to make Environmental Social and Governance metrics actually mean something to investors, polluting industries have suddenly turned on ESG. Now that fight has a legal strategy, being carried out by the Republican Attorneys General Association.Ad codes: tryfirstleaf.com/drilled - 50% off first 6 bottles plus free shipping from First Leaf athleticgreens.com/drilled - free year's supply of vitamin D + 5 free travel packs of AG1 from Athletic Greens earthbreeze.com/drilled - 40% off EarthBreeze laundry detergent Eco Sheets airdoctorpro.com and use promo code DRILLED and depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off expressvpn.com/drilled for 3 extra months free on your VPN subscription Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Amy's on the other side of the mic in an interview with Samantha Hodder, who writes the excellent Bingeworthy newsletter, all about narrative podcasts. The newsletter version of this interview, along with Samantha's take on Drilled will be in tomorrow's Bingeworthy, so make sure to subscribe here: https://bingeworthy.substack.com/Ad links in this ep: First Leaf: tryfirstleaf.com/drilled for 50% off your first shipment of six bottlesAG1 : athleticgreens.com/drilled for a year's supply of vitamin D plus 5 free travel packs of AG1 with your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices