** Oil CEOs under oath on climate change
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Thursday, October 28, 2021
An ExxonMobil oil refinery in Baton Rouge, Wikimedia Commons ([link removed])

Executives of four major oil companies and two industry trade groups will testify under oath this morning ([link removed]) about their industry's decades-long campaign to deny and discredit evidence of climate change ([link removed]) .

The hearing before the House Oversight Committee is already drawing comparisons to the tobacco hearings of the 1990s ([link removed]) , which demonstrated how that industry misled the public about the dangers of smoking.

There is already extensive research and reporting showing that oil and gas companies knew decades ago ([link removed]) that their products were causing the global climate crisis, but funded campaigns to downplay the risks.

Mark Hertsgaard, executive director of the journalism collaborate Covering Climate Now, writes that the real question is whether CEOs will finally own up to their disinformation campaigns ([link removed]) , or lie under oath to Congress.

The oil and gas climate reckoning is scheduled to start at 8:30 am Mountain Time ([link removed]) .


** Inside the camping crunch
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In the latest episode of CWP's podcast, The Landscape ([link removed]) , Tyler McIntosh takes us inside his report ([link removed]) that found a large increase in camping across America's public lands. Tyler explains how he analyzed 16 million camping reservations over six years, and what the findings mean for policymakers.
Quick hits


** More climate provisions fall from Build Back Better as EPA prepares its methane crackdown
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The Atlantic ([link removed]) | New York Times ([link removed]) | Reuters ([link removed])


** Oil executives to testify about decades of climate disinformation
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NPR ([link removed]) | New York Times ([link removed]) | The Guardian ([link removed]) | Roll Call ([link removed]) | Axios ([link removed]) | Washington Post ([link removed])


** The dirty dozen: America's top climate villains
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The Guardian ([link removed]) [Opinion]


** Tracy Stone-Manning sworn in as BLM director
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E&E News ([link removed]) | KTVQ ([link removed])


** National Park Service partners with Indigenous tourism association to highlight tribes
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Associated Press ([link removed])


** Serranus Hastings unleashed a massacre of Native Americans; why is a law school still named after him?
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New York Times ([link removed])


** Talking dinosaur invades UN to urge climate action
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LiveScience ([link removed])
Quote of the day
The evidence that had been gathered in the late ’70s and early ’80s was already unequivocal. We had a significant window, but we squandered the opportunity.”
—Former Exxon geochemist Edward Garvey
The New York Times ([link removed])
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While humans rely on the night to recharge, darkness is an incredibly important resource for wildlife to survive. While we might fear what’s bumping around in the night, something far more terrifying are the negative effects that human-caused light pollution can have on wildlife. Artificial light such as streetlights, porch lights, lamps, and even fires can disrupt the environmental conditions that wildlife depend on.

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