Senator Bernie Sanders wants fossil fuel execs to testify to the budget committee
Senator Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, has called on three oil and gas executives to testify next Thursday at a hearing on climate change.
BP America Chairman and President David C. Lawler, Chevron CEO and Chairman Michael Wirth and ExxonMobil Chair and CEO Darren W. Woods were invited to participate in a hearing titled, "The Cost of Inaction on Climate Change."
In an interview with CBS News, Sanders said that Lawler already declined the request, sent Tuesday. BP America did not respond to inquiries from CBS News. Lawler declining "tells me that these guys don't want to answer hard questions," said Sanders. He pointed to past examples of oil and gas companies withholding and distorting information to the public in order to make their production appear less dangerous. Sanders called this "one of the scandals of our lifetime."
"These companies are producing a significant percentage of the carbon that we use, which is destroying our planet, and we want to know what they are doing to transform their companies away from fossil fuel," Sanders said.
The budget hearing will take place at 11 a.m ET on Thursday, April 15. Confirmed majority witnesses include David Wallace-Wells, deputy editor at New York Magazine; Bob Litterman, Ph.D. and founding partner of Kepos Capital; and Joseph Stiglitz, professor of economics at Columbia University.
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