The leaders of major oil and gas companies testified at a tough hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill about their companies' roles in greenhouse gas emissions, the acceleration of climate change and allegations of past deception and misinformation. The testimony comes days before a global climate summit is set to begin. William Brangham reports.
changes take part in a lot of areas that are environmentally sensitive on behalf of companies themselves in terms of the way that they do business. we haven t seen the same changes coming from places like china, which, you know, would make a much bigger global impact if there was a coordination. this man, neil crabtree works for the keystone pipeline. three hours after president biden s inauguration, i lost my job. my crisis is the mortgage payments, the food i need to put on my table and the healthcare i need to provide to my family. instead of demonizing the ceos and presidents that are here today, i would like to thank them for the opportunity that they provided me. martha: quick thought if you can. he s spot on. this is about the future of
ashley: neil, what are you doing and what do you plan on doing? oh, well, i m currently working on some maintenance projects but like i said before, because of the attack on this industry, there s just not enough major projects out there to provide the man hours that people in this industry depend on. there s a lot of people right now in this industry that want to be working and could be working but we re just not able to because of all the nonsense going on in washington. ashley: i don t think people understand just how much money these pipelines can bring into the american economy, upwards of 3 billion just per pipeline. okay. neil crabtree and lynn allen, thank you so much for being with us this morning. we really appreciate it and good luck to you. thank you. ashley: it is 10 minutes until the top of the hour. an you alarming and deadly amount of fentanyl is flooding into our country every single day as a result of the crisis at our southern border. retired acting i.c.e. direct
ashley: far left members of the so-called house squad are ramping up pressure on president biden to halt construction on the nearly finished line three oil pipeline in minnesota. the state of minnesota simply cannot meet our carbon reduction targets if this pipeline goes through. president biden has the opportunity and, again, the responsibility in making good on his word to be the climate president. look, i m here to help shut it down. ashley: okay. so two former keystone xl pipeline workers, neil crabtree and lynn allen are joining me live to react right now. okay, guys. so you guys lost your jobs on the first day that biden took office. when you hear the squad talking like that, saying they re going to shut it down, how does that make you feel on a personal level? ?lynn, we ll start with you. they need to go to
there s a demand for the product and these lawmakers and opponents seem to think by limiting the supply that they re going to he reduce the demand when they re actually only thing they re doing is raising the cost to the consumers. ashley: okay. and lynn, this is basically a question for both of you. do you think that biden s i guess silence on this, is there any chance that maybe he s thinking, well, what happened with the keystone xl pipeline, that s not what he wants to see with this minnesota pipeline? yes, ma am. go ahead. yes, ma am, i can tell you right now, he s seeing how well that he has screwed up on knocking american families and the workers in the oil and gas industry, that, yeah, he s going to go crawl in a closet, crawl in a corner and he s not going to say nothing. ashley: neil, you were saying something. do you want to finish? i would just like to say,