Amy Westervelt's travel reservations mysteriously canceled while investigating Exxon
Amy Westervelt · From Drilled: The Boom · Apr 17, 2023 · at 6:02
Investigative journalist Amy Westervelt discusses the logistical interference and intimidation patterns experienced by reporters investigating ExxonMobil's climate history.
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“When I was interviewing those former Exxon scientists I mentioned before, the ones that had done all that climate research back in the seventies and eighties, every time I traveled, half my reservations would somehow wind up changed or canceled.”
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