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Big Oil has been lying about its role in climate change for decades, a congressional report says (qz.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A new report from the House Oversight Committee’s Democrats and the Senate’s Committee on the Budget says that major American oil companies have been lying for decades about their role in climate change.

“Documents demonstrate for the first time that fossil fuel companies internally do not dispute that they have understood since at least the 1960s that burning fossil fuels causes climate change and then worked for decades to undermine public understanding of this fact and to deny the underlying science,”

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I'll look forward to the absolutely zero consequences of this fact

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

“For the first time” 🙄

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Duh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

At this point, it's literally reports and bureaucracy for the sake of it. Clearly not doing anything about it is the goal.