U.S. Congress puts Big Oil in the hot seat in climate deception probe

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress on Thursday will open a year’s worth of investigations into whether Big Oil deceived Americans about its role in climate change, with Democratic lawmakers planning to grill the chiefs of four oil companies and two lobby groups. Environmental groups and their congressional allies hope the hearing evokes the Big Tobacco hearings of the 1990s, which began a shift in public opinion about that industry. Energy industry representatives plan to focus on their current support of climate action. “The narrative is, in my view, simple: they know they lied and they…

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