Representative AOC grilled executives from some of the world's biggest oil companies during a U.S. congressional hearing, telling them that young people will have to deal with the effects of climate change driven by emissions from fossil fuels
Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat, told Reuters this week that thefrom former Exxon lobbyist, Keith McCoy, who was secretly recorded by environmental group Greenpeace, saying the company's support of a carbon tax was a ruse, since the company believed the idea would never become law.
"I don't believe that you purposely want to be out there spreading climate misinformation but you're out there funding these groups," Khanna said. Woods and Chevron's Wirth played up oil and gas as essential for operation of hospitals, schools and offices.Read More "One thing that often gets lost in these conversations is some of us have to actually live in the future that you all are setting on fire for us," Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 32, told the executives, all older than 50.
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