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John Kerry warns Big Oil. Big Oil pushes back
Source: By E&E News staff • Posted: Wednesday, March 3, 2021
(Left to right) Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Darren Woods, White House climate envoy John Kerry and Chevron Corp. CEO Mike Wirth. Woods (Exxon); Kerry (Center for American Progress/Flickr); Wirth (Chevron)
White House climate envoy John Kerry starkly warned the oil and gas industry yesterday that it could be left behind if it doesn’t clean up its products and transition to cleaner forms of energy.
The heads of the top three U.S. oil companies said the administration should tread carefully and argued that the world will rely on fossil fuels for decades.