Congressional Hearing on Oil Industry Climate Change Communication
January 1, 2019
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The Frame
This hearing serves as a formal legislative inquiry into historical corporate communications, potentially influencing future environmental policy and corporate accountability standards.
Potentially affected actors named in the source documents. Mention is not a position.
Oil Industry
The industry is the subject of the investigation regarding its historical climate change communications.
Vulnerable populations and communities of color
The subcommittee is investigating how climate change denial campaigns have impacted these specific groups.
Last recorded activity January 1, 2019.
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Summary
Key Facts
- The hearing took place on October 23, 2019, in the Rayburn House Office Building.
- Chairman Raskin entered several Exxon internal memos into the record, dated June 6, 1978, October 16, 1979, August 3, 1998, and October 13, 1997.
- An American Petroleum Institute Action Plan dated April 3, 1998, was entered into the record.
- The hearing examined the intersection of climate change denial campaigns and environmental justice for people of color and vulnerable populations.
- Six witnesses provided oral testimony, including former industry scientists, academics, and policy advocates.
Why It Matters
This hearing serves as a formal legislative inquiry into historical corporate communications, potentially influencing future environmental policy and corporate accountability standards.
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Discoveries
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Focus on Environmental Justice
The hearing explicitly linked corporate climate communication strategies to the specific impacts on environmental justice for vulnerable populations.
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