Oversight committee chair subpoenas top oil companies
By Zack Budryk - 11/02/21 03:33 PM EDT
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) issued subpoenas to four major oil companies and two leading trade groups on Tuesday, making good on a vow she made at a hearing last week.
In a Tuesday memo, Maloney said that Shell, BP, Exxon and Chevron, as well as the American Petroleum Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, had failed to voluntarily provide information the committee requested before the hearing last Thursday.
The subpoenas demand the entities produce all materials and internal communications among senior executives and board members relating to climate science, their "role in contributing to climate change" and the impacts it could have on their businesses. It also calls for documents on funding to third-party entities, as well as their respective plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Echoing remarks Maloney made in the hearing, she said the entities — despite extensions — had not complied with most of the requests and had mostly produced irrelevant or publicly available documents.
Specifically, Maloney wrote, neither Exxon nor Chevron have provided requested internal communications between top executives or detailed information on third-party funding. Meanwhile, she wrote, BP America provided only incomplete email correspondence and did not disclose third-party funding information, while Shell did not provide either third-party funding information or board/senior executive materials.
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