Analysis: 5 things to know before today's blockbuster Big Oil hearing
The CEOs of six major fossil fuel companies and trade associations will testify on Capitol Hill today about their alleged role in misleading the public about climate change.will hear from the top executives of ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, Shell Oil, the American Petroleum Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce about their reported efforts to spread climate disinformation., who chairs the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Environment, threatened to subpoena them..
“They need to answer what they knew about climate science, why they deliberately misrepresented the science for decades,” he said.At an infamous hearing in 1994, the CEOs of the seven biggest U.S. tobacco companies — dubbed the “seven dwarfs” — testified under oath that they believed nicotine was not addictive.
“What hurt tobacco was their refusal to come clean,” Khanna said. “I mean, if they had just acknowledged that nicotine was addictive, it wouldn’t have been the pivotal moment it was. So my expectation is that the oil executives aren’t going to want to perjure themselves, that they will admit to the past misrepresentations and some of the ongoing misrepresentations.
Republicans also invited as a witness a welder who was laid off from working on the Keystone XL oil pipeline after Biden revoked a key permit for the project — an example, they say, of how Biden’s climate moves have cost American jobs.
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