Ro Khana becoming a force of and for Nature.

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Climate change
As chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment, Khanna presided over the Big Oil hearing, bringing the CEOs of ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and British Petroleum to appear before Congress under oath to answer for climate disinformation. The hearing took place on October 28, 2021. As late as 2000, Exxon advertised in the New York Times that "scientists have been unable to confirm" that burning fossil fuels causes climate change. The Big Oil hearings were the first time oil executives were compelled to answer questions under oath about whether their corporations misled the public about the effects burning oil, gas and coal have on raising the earth's temperature and extreme weather patterns like intensifying storms, deadlier wildfires, and worsening droughts. During the hearing, Khanna called on the Big Oil executives to "Spare us the spin today. We have no interest in it... Spin doesn't work under oath." In an interview with Yahoo Finance, Khanna described Big Oil's role in obfuscating climate science: "it's pretty simple. They knew, they lied. They continued to deceive. We will have scores of evidence that these big oil companies misrepresented to the American public the threat of climate change. They cast doubt and uncertainty, even though they had scientists in their own company telling them that climate change and climate crisis was going to be catastrophic. And that they continue to engage in a pattern of deception."

This topic needs its own forum.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/house-oversight-asks-big-oil-board-members-to-testify/

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/politics/house-oversight-oil-and-gas-hearing-climate-disinformation/index.html

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1. "Don't Look Up" made the point that CC is EVERYTHING.

Maybe Democratic Underground could add a Clinate Change forum top of the list to make the point of how vitally action is needed....