A trove of internal documents from companies including BP, ExxonMobil, and Chevron reveal how the fossil fuel industry has continued to make massive long-term investments in oil and gas extraction even as the corporations have publicly claimed to be committed to aiding in a transition to a renewable energy economy.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, joined Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who chairs the panel’s Subcommittee on the Environment, in releasing a roughly one million pages of documents uncovered as part of the committee’s yearlong investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s role in spreading climate misinformation.

“Just like Big Tobacco, it’s time to hold this industry accountable for their lies.”

While fossil fuel giants have made highly publicized pledges to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in the coming decades—pledges that climate experts have found are rife with loopholes that will keep the companies from actually helping the global community to limit planetary […]