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There will be a hearing of the Committee on the Budget on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 9:00 AM in Room SH-216 to consider: “Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change”.

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Witnesses:

• Geoffrey Supran, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Environmental Science And Policy, And Director, Climate Accountability Lab, University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science
• Jamie Raskin (MD-8), Ranking Member, Committee on Oversight and Accountability, U.S. House of Representatives
• Sharon Eubanks, Former Director, Tobacco Litigation Team, U.S. Department of Justice
• Dr. Ariel Cohen, Senior Fellow, The Atlantic Council, and Managing Director, Energy, Growth, and Security Program, International Tax Investment Center, Republican witness
• Michael Ratner, Specialist In Energy Policy, Congressional Research Service, Republican witness

Geoffrey Supran has helped expose ExxonMobil’s long campaign of public deception about the scientific threat of their product.

Sharon Eubanks forced Big Tobacco to pay $206 billion for their similar criminal deception of the deadliness of their addictive product.

Ariel Cohen is a 20-year Heritage Foundation veteran focused on Russian petropolitics who now works for the International Tax and Investment Center, a Big Oil front group for killing taxes on the global fossil-fuel industry, overseen by oil executives and high-level right-wing politicians.

Michael Ratner is a specialist in global oil and gas infrastructure who formerly worked for Enron and the CIA.