Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
Climate campaigners on Wednesday called out and even disrupted a Punchbowl News event on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago because it was sponsored by fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil. 'Companies like Exxon should have no place at the DNC,' said Sunrise Movement communications director Stevie O'Hanlon in a statement. 'Exxon has spent decades misleading the public about the climate crisis and buying off politicians.
Tim Walz, who has also been welcomed by green groups, despite his record on the Line 3 pipeline and Indigenous-led opposition to it.'Instead, our government must deliver clean, affordable energy that is tailored to our communities, supports workers to transition to new jobs, and helps regions that have been deliberately sacrificed to toxic pollution and climate chaos,' she said.
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