{"id":124462,"date":"2021-06-30T13:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/big-oil-and-gas-kept-a-dirty-secret-for-decades-now-they-may-pay-the-price"},"modified":"2021-06-30T13:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:22:54","slug":"big-oil-and-gas-kept-a-dirty-secret-for-decades-now-they-may-pay-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/big-oil-and-gas-kept-a-dirty-secret-for-decades-now-they-may-pay-the-price","title":{"rendered":"Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now they may pay the price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/big-oil-and-gas-kept-a-dirty-secret-for-decades-now-they-may-pay-the-price2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost all the lawsuits draw on the oil industry\u2019s own records as the foundation for claims that it covered up the growing threat to life caused by its products.<\/p>\n<p>Shell, like other oil companies, had decades to prepare for those consequences after it was forewarned by its own research. In 1958, one of its executives, Charles Jones, presented a paper to the industry\u2019s trade group, the American Petroleum Institute (API), warning about increased carbon emissions from car exhaust. Other research followed through the 1960s, leading a White House advisory committee to express concern at measurable and perhaps marked changes in climate by 2000.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>With an unprecedented wave of lawsuits, America\u2019s petroleum giants face a reckoning for the environmental devastation caused by fossil fuels \u2013 and covering up what they knew along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost all the lawsuits draw on the oil industry\u2019s own records as the foundation for claims that it covered up the growing threat to life caused by its products. Shell, like other oil companies, had decades to prepare for those consequences after it was forewarned by its own research. In 1958, one of its executives, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}