The U.S. oil and gas industry was working as early as the 1940s to spin the narrative on the role fossil fuels influenced the climate, a report finds. A series of documents reviewed by the Center for International Environmental Law suggests the oil and gas industry in the United States was examining the link between the burning of fossil fuels and harmful pollution as early as 1919. By the 1940s, the study suggests , a committee of executives from companies that later became Chevron, Exxon Mobil and Shell, among others, worked to control public opinion. The CIEL claims a so-called Smoke and Fumes Committee was using […]