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House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl Grijalva and Representative Katie Porter, chair of the panel’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, are threatening to subpoena 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. 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.
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