Exclusive: A bombshell investigation into how fossil fuel companies blocked action to prevent climate change is being turned into a TV series.

David MacPherson, creator of Prime Video series The Rig, is teaming with The Spanish Princess producer New Pictures on an adaptation of Geoff Dembicki’s The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change.

Similar in scope to Hulu hit Dopesick, which was also based on a non-fiction work, the book draws on hundreds of confidential oil industry documents spanning decades, revealing how the fossil fuel industry joined forces with right-wing politicians to halt progress on preventing the climate crisis. Investigative journalist Dembicki tells the story of how American oil companies ignored warnings about climate devastation as early as 1959. Instead of alerting the world to act on an impending global disaster, the companies created advertising campaigns arguing that climate change wasn’t real and that...