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A recent Senate hearing compared Big Oil to Big Tobacco. But one of these industries is indispensable to society, and one isnt.

In the wake of the Biden administration’s LNG pause, numerous Democrats have called out the importance of natural gas and rebuked their own party for turning against a needed economic and energy security powerhouse.

Sanders uses the testimony (below) of Dr. Geoffrey Supran to support his assertion that Big Oil acted knowingly to disinform on the science

Congressional Democrats say newly released documents trace oil industry's pivot from denial to deception.

Democrats behind the investigation are trying to denigrate oil companies by misleading the public into thinking they had special knowledge about CO2 emissions.

A paper published in Harvard Environmental Law Review argues fossil fuel companies have been “killing members of the public at an accelerating rate.” It says oil giants’ awareness their pollution could have lethal consequences solidly fits within the definition of homicide.

US Senate hearing reviewed report showing sector’s shift from climate denial to ‘deception, disinformation and doublespeak’

The federal government should take legal action against the petroleum industry, as it once did against Big Tobacco, a former federal litigator told the Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday. Major oil and gas companies have misled and endangered the public in a manner similar to the tobacco industry, said Sharon Eubanks, a former Justice Department lawyer who…

LOOKING AHEAD: A Senate Budget Committee hearing scheduled for next week raises the question of whether there might be some form of revival of the House Democratic probe in the 117th Congress into oil companies and whether they’ve evaded accountability for climate change. The details: On next Wednesday, May 1, the Senate Budget Committee is hosting

A new legal theory suggests that oil companies could be taken to court for every kind of homicide in the United States, short of first-degree murder.