Oil and gas company executives testified before Congress on Thursday. The focus of the hearings was the disinformation campaigns companies like Chevron and Shell initiated to detract from climate science. The World’s Marco Werman spoke with Nicholas Kusnetz, a reporter with Inside Climate News, about what he learned and the potential impact of the hearings.
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