Fueling the Climate Crisis: Exposing Big Oil’s Disinformation Campaign to Prevent Climate Action
Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney's Opening Statement [PDF]
Washington D.C. (October 22, 2021)— On Thursday, October 28, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. ET, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Ro Khanna, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Environment, will hold a hearing to examine the fossil fuel industry’s long-running, industry-wide campaign to spread disinformation about the role of fossil fuels in causing global warming.
The fossil fuel industry has had scientific evidence about the dangers of climate change since at least 1977. Yet for decades, the industry spread denial and doubt about the harm of its products—undermining the science and preventing meaningful action on climate change even as the global climate crisis became increasingly dire, and its deadly impact on Americans increased.
More recently, some large fossil fuel companies took public stances in support of climate actions while privately continuing to block reforms, invest overwhelmingly in fossil fuel extraction, and support efforts to extend the life of fossil fuel investments. The industry reportedly spends billions to promote climate disinformation through branding and lobbying. Moreover, they increasingly outsource lobbying to trade groups, obscuring their own roles in disinformation efforts.
On September 16, 2021, the Chairs sent letters to top fossil fuel executives requesting documents and communications related to their organization’s role in supporting disinformation and misleading the public to prevent action on the climate crisis. To date, all the fossil fuel entities have failed to adequately comply with the Committee’s request.
WITNESSES
Chief Executive Officer
ExxonMobil Corporation
Chief Executive Officer
BP America Inc.
Chief Executive Officer
Chevron Corporation
President
Shell Oil Company
President
American Petroleum Institute
President and Chief Executive Officer
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Neal Crabtree (Minority witness)
Former Welding Foreman
Keystone XL Pipeline
DOCUMENTS
- Notice
- Memo
- Update NOTICE - Time Change
- Attendance
- Rep Cloud UC - Biden ask OPEC
- Rep Cloud UC - Biden lifts US Sanctions
- Rep. Cloud UC - China is Planning to Build 43 New Coal-Fired..
- Cloud UC - Climate-Related Deaths
- Cloud UC - Energy costs are stoking inflation
- Cloud UC - Home heating sticker shock- The cost of natural gas is up 180 percent
- Rep CLoud UC - Politico - Europe warns its gas price surge
- Rep CLoud UC - Qatar Petroleum signs 15-year LNG...
- Rep Cloud UC - Qatar Petroleum to boost LNG production
- Rep CLoud UC - Qatar Places $760Mil Order with China
- Rep Cloud UC - Russia Projects oil output
- Rep Cloud UC - The US was right - Europe
- Rep Cloud UC - While Western Nations Kill Energy
- Rep Cloud UC - With a pen stroke, Pres Joe Biden....
- Rep Gerald Connolly Statement for the Record
- UC - Rep Tlaib - Chevron's GLobal Destruction
- UC - Rep Quigley - API Blatant Hipocrisy
- UC - Rep. Raskin - DIstrict Court Judge Caproni ruling on motion to dismiss
- Responses to QFR's from Shell Oil Company, Ms. Watkins
- Responses to QFR's from U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- Responses to QFR's from American Petroleum
- Transcript
- Responses to QFR's From BP America, Inc.