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** Lawmakers threaten subpoena in climate misinformation probe
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Friday, August 19, 2022
House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl Grijalva. Source: Natural Resources Dems Flickr ([link removed])

House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl Grijalva and Representative Katie Porter, chair of the panel’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, are threatening to subpoena ([link removed]) a public relations firm for not cooperating with an investigation into its work for fossil fuel clients.

The firm, FTI Consulting, has "obstructed, delayed, and been otherwise uncooperative in the Committee’s legitimate oversight efforts,” the lawmakers said in a statement ([link removed]) . According to Grijalva and Porter, the firm “has not wavered in its blanket refusal to provide even the most basic information about its clients or descriptions of the grounds for its refusal beyond the vaguest assertions of confidentiality and privileges.” If FTI doesn't produce all of the documents the panel asked for by August 24 the lawmakers may issue a subpoena.

In June, Grijalva and Porter launched an investigation of five PR firms and the American Petroleum Institute to assess whether the entities had played a role in pushing disinformation on climate change on behalf of fossil fuel companies. “If we’re going to take meaningful action against climate change, we need to be armed with facts and science, not industry propaganda. The American people deserve to know the truth and we intend to do our job to find it,” Grijalva said ([link removed]) .


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Quick hits


** Climate law underscores need for a critical minerals mining framework
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E&E News ([link removed])


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High Country News ([link removed])


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Nevada Independent ([link removed])


** Lawmakers threaten subpoena in climate misinformation probe
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The Hill ([link removed]) | E&E News ([link removed])


** Oil spill stopped from reaching tributary on Navajo Nation
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Associated Press ([link removed])


** Chevron is in the propaganda business with sponsored content in Texas' news deserts
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Gizmodo ([link removed])


** Colorado county says "shear thing" to sheep grazing at proposed solar energy project site
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Colorado Sun ([link removed])


** Documents reveal BLM mismanagement that led to damage of hundreds of dinosaur fossils
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E&E News ([link removed])
Quote of the day
” The worsening drought crisis across the West is not just bad for business and farms. It’s an existential threat to our communities and to our livelihoods.”
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