Fossil fuel companies and advertisers could soon face their Big Tobacco moment
Top executives from Exxon, BP, Chevron, Shell, and others are being called to testify before Congress at a hearing about climate change disinformation.
By Jeff Beer4 minute Read
Congress announced yesterday that it has launched an investigation, and will hold hearings, into the reported role of the fossil fuel industry in a long-running, industry-wide campaign to spread disinformation about the role of fossil fuels in causing climate change.
Democratic representatives Carolyn B. Maloney, chairwoman of the Oversight and Reform Committee, and Ro Khanna, chairman of the Subcommittee on the Environment, sent letters to top executives at ExxonMobil, BP America Inc., Chevron, Shell Oil, American Petroleum Institute, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to testify at a Committee hearing on October 28.
In the letter, Maloney and Khanna wrote, “We are deeply concerned that the fossil fuel industry has reaped massive profits for decades while contributing to climate change that is devastating American communities, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, and ravaging the natural world. We are also concerned that to protect those profits, the industry has reportedly led a coordinated effort to spread disinformation to mislead the public and prevent crucial action to address climate change.”
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They were doing this with slavery, beating back the labor movement, denying women's suffrage ... I mean it's REALLY well worn 
The good news is that Congress sometimes takes the right position, and sometimes prevails.
