| Rep. Ro Khanna Threatens to Subpoena Exxon After Secret Video |
| Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=59993"><span class="small">Hiroko Tabuchi and Lisa Friedman, The New York Times</span></a> |
| Saturday, 03 July 2021 12:31 |
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Excerpt: "The chairman of a House subcommittee is demanding that executives of Exxon Mobil Corp., Shell, Chevron and other major oil and gas companies testify before Congress about the industry's decades-long effort to wage disinformation campaigns around climate change."
Rep. Ro Khanna Threatens to Subpoena Exxon After Secret Video03 July 21
Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, said Friday he was prepared to use subpoena power to compel the companies to appear before lawmakers if they don’t do so voluntarily. The move comes a day after a secretive video recording was made public in which a senior Exxon lobbyist said the energy giant had fought climate science through “shadow groups” and had targeted influential senators in an effort to weaken President Biden’s climate agenda. Several of those senators said this week that the lobbyist exaggerated their relationship or that they had no dealings with him. |
he chairman of a House subcommittee is demanding that executives of Exxon Mobil Corp., Shell, Chevron and other major oil and gas companies testify before Congress about the industry’s decades-long effort to wage disinformation campaigns around climate change.