U.S. lawmaker to issue subpoenas to oil firms for documents on climate

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney said connected Thursday she intends to contented subpoenas to 4 large lipid companies for documents connected what their interior scientists person said astir clime alteration and immoderate backing they are doing to mislead the nationalist connected planetary warming.

Maloney made the remark astatine the extremity of a House proceeding connected clime disinformation successful which lawmakers grilled the heads of Exxon Mobil, Shell Oil, BP America and Chevron.

“We request to get to the bottommost of the lipid industry’s disinformation run with these subpoenas,” Maloney said, adding she had draught subpoenas ready.

(Reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by Chris Reese)