{"id":906003,"date":"2021-10-21T13:28:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T17:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=906003"},"modified":"2021-10-21T13:29:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T17:29:12","slug":"democratic-rep-fundraises-off-upcoming-big-oil-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-rep-fundraises-off-upcoming-big-oil-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Rep Fundraises Off Upcoming \u2018Big Oil\u2019 Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocratic-rep-fundraises-off-upcoming-big-oil-hearing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=906003&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California sent a fundraising email to supporters this week, asking for donations ahead of a House hearing on \u201cBig Oil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The email, with the subject line \u201cBig Oil doesn\u2019t want us to know,\u201d criticized fossil fuel companies for profiting while climate change continues. The message also accused the industry of waging multi-million dollar \u201cclimate denialist ad campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOil giants like ExxonMobil don\u2019t want us to know about the front groups and think tanks they use to spread disinformation about climate science. They don\u2019t want us to know about their multi-million dollar climate denialist ad campaigns,\u201d the fundraising email read. \u201cAnd they definitely don\u2019t want us to know about the teams of lobbyists working behind the scenes in D.C. to build opposition to clean energy legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for the first time in Congressional history, they\u2019re going to answer for it all,\u201d it continued. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/20\/joe-biden-administration-interior-department-alaska-oil-drilling-energy-prices\/\">(RELATED: Biden Ditches Alaska Oil Drilling Project That Would\u2019ve Created Thousands Of Jobs)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fundraising email asked recipients to \u201csupport Ro as he investigates the fossil fuel industry\u2019s climate denialism and corruption.\u201d The message <a href=\"https:\/\/act.rokhanna.com\/sign\/ro_climate_disinfo\/?source=ema20211019-2050&amp;t=3&amp;akid=2050%2E806502%2EJWnY8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">links<\/a> to Khanna\u2019s reelection campaign website and a form to subscribe to future campaign emails.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7306591\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7306591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Ro Khanna speaks at an \u201cEnd Fossil Fuel\u201d rally near the U.S. Capitol on June 29. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Khanna, the chairman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment, previously wrote to executives and industry groups demanding that they appear before Congress to testify about the \u201cclimate crisis.\u201d The California congressman, along with Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney, also requested further information and documents in the letters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply concerned that the fossil fuel industry has reaped massive profits for decades while contributing to climate change that is devastating American communities, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, and ravaging the natural world,\u201d Khanna and Maloney <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/oversight-committee-launches-investigation-of-fossil-fuel-industry\">wrote<\/a> to the executives on Sept. 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs worsening natural disasters linked to global warming devastate communities in the United States and globally, one of Congress\u2019s top legislative priorities is combating the increasingly urgent crisis of a changing climate,\u201d the Democratic leaders continued. \u201cTo do this, Congress must address pollution caused by the fossil fuel industry and curb troubling business practices that lead to disinformation on these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Executives from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/20\/exxon-mobil-oil-gas-projects-climate-change-environmentalists\/\">ExxonMobil<\/a>, BP America, Chevron and Shell are slated to testify at the hearing which is scheduled for Oct. 28. The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/19\/energy-independence-united-states-joe-biden-american-petroleum-institute\/\">American Petroleum Institute<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/30\/chamber-of-commerce-industry-leaders-congress-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill\/\">U.S. Chamber of Commerce<\/a>, two of the largest trade groups in the country, will also send representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/13\/big-oil-ceos-are-testifying-before-congress\/\">first reported<\/a> on Oct. 13 that the hearing would take place.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California sent a fundraising email to supporters this week, asking for donations ahead of a House hearing on \u201cBig Oil.\u201dThe email, with the subject line &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}