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Executives of four major oil companies and two industry trade groups will testify under oath this morning about their industry's decades-long campaign to deny and discredit evidence of climate change.
The hearing before the House Oversight Committee is already drawing comparisons to the tobacco hearings of the 1990s, 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 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, or lie under oath to Congress.
The oil and gas climate reckoning is scheduled to start at 8:30 am Mountain Time.
Inside the camping crunch
In the latest episode of CWP's podcast, The Landscape, Tyler McIntosh takes us inside his report 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.
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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.”
