{"id":28297,"date":"2021-10-28T12:45:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T12:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=28297"},"modified":"2021-10-28T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T12:45:25","slug":"climate-change-major-us-oil-companies-to-be-quizzed-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/10\/28\/climate-change-major-us-oil-companies-to-be-quizzed-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change: Major US oil companies to be quizzed in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Top executives of major Western oil companies are to testify before the US Congress amid accusations that they misled the public about climate change.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Democrat lawmakers say the hearings will focus on the industry&#8217;s decades-long denial of its products&#8217; leading role in fuelling climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The companies said they hoped to use the hearings to highlight recent efforts to address climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">This comes just days before the start of the UN&#8217;s COP26 climate conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top executives of major Western oil companies are to testify before the US Congress amid accusations that they misled the public about climate change. Democrat lawmakers say the hearings will focus on the industry&rsquo;s decades-long denial of its products&rsquo; leading role in fuelling climate change. The companies said they hoped to use the hearings to highlight recent efforts to address climate change. This comes just days before the start of the UN&rsquo;s COP26 climate conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28299,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28297\/revisions\/28299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}