From the column: "If Biden’s goal was to keep the oil in the ground, it didn’t work. Canadian oil production remained strong throughout 2021 and is expected to hit a new record in 2022."
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Under threat of subpoena, Big Oil executives appeared before the House oversight committee on October 28 to testify about their industry’s efforts to erode the public consensus around climate change and thwart climate action. Considering 2021’s multiple, record-breaking extreme weather events, last week’s hearing was both timely and newsworthy; in a day full of breaking stories from D.C., cable TV news shows still managed to devote a modest amount of coverage to the congressional hearing on Big Oil disinformation.
A Media Matters analysis found that cable news shows covered the hearing on October 28 for 41 minutes across 15 segments. MSNBC led with 22 minutes of coverage across eight segments, followed by CNN with 13 minutes of coverage across four segments, and Fox with nearly seven minutes of coverage across two segments.
This wave of coverage bucked previous trends that found corporate TV news failing to connect important climate stories to the urgent need for politi
Democratic lawmakers put oil executives in their crosshairs Thursday during a Congressional Oversight and Reform Committee hearing that chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, described as \