Lawmakers Refer Fossil Fuel Industry Climate Deception Investigation to the DOJ
Lawmakers have been calling for a Justice Department probe into Big Oil for nearly a decade.
The leaders of a years-long Congressional probe into Big Oil’s decades-long climate disinformation campaigns just formally referred their investigation to the Department of Justice, calling on the nation’s biggest public law office to “pursue further investigation and take any appropriate legal action, as it has in similar cases involving the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries.