Congressional Dems take aim again at Big Oil

House Democrats will try again this week to put big oil and gas on the global warming spotlight.

Reps for Exxon, Chevron, Shell and BP refused to go along with the politically-driven effort by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform led by Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney. They had declined invitations to testify at the hearing and were ultimately given a deadline Monday to voluntarily commit to attend a March 8 hearing.

The Committee and its Subcommittee on the Environment, led by Rep. Ro Khanna will hold a hearing starting at 9 A.M. CT on Tuesday, Feb. 8.

The full committee, in announcing the hearing stated, “The hearing is part of the Committee’s investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s long-running campaign to spread disinformation about climate change and greenwash its role in causing global warming.”

Climate experts and environmental advocates will testify, continued the announcement “to the urgent need” for fossil fuel companies to alter their operations and reduce emissions “and assess whether the companies’ climate pledges will meet that goal, or are instead just the latest example of climate disinformation.”

Following testimony from the climate experts, the Committee will hold a hearing next month with members of the Boards of Directors of four fossil fuel companies.