Oil industry board members summoned over climate ‘disinformation’

A US congressional committee has already issued subpoenas for documents on what oil company scientists said about climate change and any funds spent to mislead the public on global warming. Key board members at four oil companies were called to testify in February about the industry’s role in climate change and spreading “disinformation”, turning up the heat on big oil after legislators grilled their CEOs last year. “These are board members who ran on changing these institutions from the inside,” chair of the oversight panel’s environment subcommittee Ro Khanna said. The letters said board members play a key governance role in addressing climate change “by overseeing and guiding companies’ climate strategies, promoting transparency and holding management accountable to meaningful emissions reductions”. The board members were not immediately available for comment.