Big Oil majors, including Exxon, BP, Shell, and Chevron, may be subpoenaed to turn over financial documents as part of a congressional probe into alleged disinformation about the effect of the industry on the climate. “Today’s witnesses refused to take responsibility for big oil’s decade-long disinformation campaign,” said the chairwoman of the Committee of Oversight and Reform, as quoted by CNBC, following a hearing of executives from the four companies and the American Petroleum Institute. “We need to get to the bottom of the oil industry’s disinformation campaign with these subpoenas,” Reuters quoted Carolyn Maloney as saying. The committee chair aims to uncover funding of “shadow groups”, public relations firms, and social media. The hearing focused on the period since the 1970s when Big Oil’s own research showed a link between their business and the environment, but the companies ignored it, according to Reuters. One of the participants in […]