ExxonKnews
June 29, 2023
Toxic smoke from still-burning wildfires in Canada and a vicious heatwave are bearing down on the United States this week, creating a public health crisis for more than 100 million people. Sweltering temperatures killed at least thirteen people in Texas, nine of whom were incarcerated in state jails, and at least twenty one people in northern Mexico. In the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, hundreds were buried after weeks of brutal heat there in mid-June.
But none of that news seemed to permeate an interview on Monday at the Aspen Ideas Festival between CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin and Chevron CEO Mike Wirth — head of one of the biggest climate polluters creating these deadly conditions for communities across the globe.
