Drilled • Season 7 Episode 4
A look at how fossil fuel companies influence curricula and research at the university level.
How fossil fuel companies have infiltrated higher education.
One of Australia’s most prestigious universities promised to divest from fossil fuels in 2016. It later revised this decision to say it would only divest from coal, allowing the country’s biggest oil and gas company, Woodside, to fund and name a center. As that partnership comes up for renewal at the end of 2025, students and faculty are pushing the university to reconsider.
A new batch of subpoenaed documents show what fossil fuel companies are getting for their university research donations.
Why did fossil fuel companies think it was worth investing in education in the first place?
How the fossil fuel industry instilled a particular understanding of the economy and the environment in American highschoolers.
The ultimate justification for pollution.
A glossary of PR techniques used over the past 100 years.
Miseducation starts young.
STEM lesson plans from Discovery Education provide an efficient model for fossil fuel companies to indoctrinate children
Geoffrey Supran and Craig Callender discuss the link between fossil fuel-funded research in schools and policy.
Industry has been weaseling its way into educational materials and public schools for decades.