HistoPol, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

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Senator #Whitehouse of #RI is brilliant.
(Too bad that his proposal for a #WindfallProfitTax--in particular for #BigOil--did not become law.)

https://youtu.be/48kqvyqkALM
I have written a short 🧵 on #BigOilKnew, but seeing and hearing it is even more damning.

🧵:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110522939158331016

HistoPol, 11 months ago

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

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PS:
Here are the shownotes from YouTube of this #SBC meeting on June 21st, 2023:

"#DarkMoney Funding of
Climate Skeptic Organizations
[#Senate] Budget
Committee
[Room] SD-608

Senator #SheldonWhitehouse
(D-RI), Chairman of the #SenateBudgetCommittee, opens a #BudgetCommittee hearing entitled,
"Dollars and Degrees: Investigating Fossil Fuel Dark Money's Systemic Threats to
Climate and the Federal Budget."

The hearing explored the insidious role that...

HistoPol, 11 months ago

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

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...secretive #FossilFuel money has
played in exposing us to those forecast economic and budgetary catastrophes.

👉Decades of climate disinformation and
obstruction kept the fossil fuel industry benefiting from its $600-plus billion-dollar subsidy👈, driving up
climate-related costs to the federal budget and to the broader economy"