A reporter for the Guardian secretly edited their reporting to obscure revelations that the ringleaders of the "Exxon Knew" campaign are working to prepare Democrats on Congressional committees to hold a "Waxman-style" hearing like the one that investigated tobacco companies in the 1990s.
It's rarely as blatant as what played out in a recent Guardian article slamming fossil fuel companies for a new advertising campaign that focuses how the industry has worked to reduce carbon emissions.
The Guardian turned to Geoffrey Supran, a leader in the fossil fuel divestment movement, and Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard professor long involved in the campaign to prosecute oil companies for alleged climate fraud, to comment.
True to character, Supran took the opportunity to bash fossil fuels and call for a major investigation of energy companies.
The Guardian's story reveals that Oreskes and Supran are working intimately with the Congressional oversight committees in an attempt to use Congress to accomplish what years of lawsuits by state attorneys general could not: force energy companies to open their books in hopes of finding a scandal.
According to Supran, obtaining these documents would be "One of the most important actions Congress could take" to address climate change.
The Guardian also ran an op-ed by Supran and Oreskes that tried to link "Big oil" to "Big tobacco" and called for Congress to continue investigating whether energy companies knew of climate change risks and chose to suppress evidence.
https://eidclimate.org/activists-are-preparing-congress-to-investigate-energy-companies/
It's rarely as blatant as what played out in a recent Guardian article slamming fossil fuel companies for a new advertising campaign that focuses how the industry has worked to reduce carbon emissions.
The Guardian turned to Geoffrey Supran, a leader in the fossil fuel divestment movement, and Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard professor long involved in the campaign to prosecute oil companies for alleged climate fraud, to comment.
True to character, Supran took the opportunity to bash fossil fuels and call for a major investigation of energy companies.
The Guardian's story reveals that Oreskes and Supran are working intimately with the Congressional oversight committees in an attempt to use Congress to accomplish what years of lawsuits by state attorneys general could not: force energy companies to open their books in hopes of finding a scandal.
According to Supran, obtaining these documents would be "One of the most important actions Congress could take" to address climate change.
The Guardian also ran an op-ed by Supran and Oreskes that tried to link "Big oil" to "Big tobacco" and called for Congress to continue investigating whether energy companies knew of climate change risks and chose to suppress evidence.
https://eidclimate.org/activists-are-preparing-congress-to-investigate-energy-companies/
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