From Drilled: Carbon Cowboys

June 4, 2026 · 32 min

About this episode

The episode features Amy Westervelt discussing the misleading claims of Bruce Rastetter regarding sustainable aviation fuel and its impact on climate change.

While we’re heads down working on a bunch of great new episodes, we’re sharing the first episode of the new season of Drilled. In it, award-winning climate journalist Amy Westervelt exposes how Republican corn ethanol mogul Bruce Rastetter sold "sustainable aviation fuel" to world leaders from North Dakota to Brazil. The problem is, his “clean energy” project does nothing to help climate change.  Drilled: Carbon Cowboys follows the land grabs, pipelines, and political power stopping real progress from being made. Find  Drilled wherever you get podcasts, or at pushkin.fm/plus. Please support the organizations that support this show: Go to  https://zbiotics.com/QUESTION  and use QUESTION at checkout for 15% off any first-time orders of ZBiotics probiotics. Ground News is a platform that makes it easy to compare news sources, read between the lines of media bias, and break free from algorithms. Go to GroundNews.com/QUESTION  to get 40% off the unlimited Vantage plan. DeleteMe makes it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online. Get 20% off DeleteMe consumer plans when you go to  joindeleteme.com/QUESTION…

People in this episode

Host: Brian Reed

Guest: Amy Westervelt

Topics covered

climate change
sustainable energy
political power
ethanol
journalism

Keywords

climate journalism
sustainable aviation fuel
ethanol mogul
land grabs
political influence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Drilled

Places: North Dakota, Brazil