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Podcast: Energy Gang
Episode: Exxon's Hidden Past
Description: In the mid 1970s, Exxon invested millions of dollars into sophisticated climate research and determined that greenhouse gas emissions would warm the planet to dangerous levels if left unchecked.
But then something changed. In the mid 1980s and into the 90s, Exxon curtailed much of that research and started sowing doubt about the reality of the problem. By one tally, Exxon has spent $30 million supporting front groups and climate denying politicians in order to prevent action on reducing carbon emissions.
Why such a dramatic reversal?
In this episode, we talk with Neela Banerjee, a reporter with Inside Climate News, about...