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September 16, 2022

"An Unprecedented Global Crime": House Hearings Probe Oil Companies' Climate Denial
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Back in the United States, a House congressional committee has uncovered
documents revealing how oil company executives' private actions
contradicted their public promises to fight climate change. One set of
emails obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform shows how
Exxon sought to undermine an oil industry pledge to uphold the Paris
Climate Agreement. Other internal emails reveal Shell's public pledge to
go carbon-neutral amounted to corporate greenwashing. This week
lawmakers heard testimony on how public relations firms worked to
mislead the public over the climate crisis, while organizing phony
grassroots campaigns to battle proposed regulations. This is
environmental lawyer Raya Salter.

Raya Salter: "The climate crisis is an unprecedented global crime, and
the smoking gun lies in the hands of Big Oil and Gas. They have known
with precision for over 40 years that they were doing no less than
creating a mass extinction event."



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