In 2021, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform launched a major investigation into “the fossil fuel industry’s long-running campaign to spread disinformation about climate change and greenwash its role in causing global warming.”
During a committee hearing on October 28, 2021, the leading executives of six major fossil fuel companies and trade associations — ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP America, the American Petroleum Institute, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — refused to commit under oath that their companies would stop spending money to oppose efforts to reduce emissions and combat climate change.
The committee subsequently issued subpoenas to the #SlipperySix witnesses “for key documents they have failed to produce in the Committee’s investigation.”
At a second hearing, in February 2022, a panel of climate scientists and experts testified that the six fossil fuel entities are driving the climate crisis through their continued pollution, insufficient corporate pledges, and spreading of climate disinformation.
