Meanwhile, Q1 earnings for these companies just dropped — In the first few months of this year Shell made $7.7 billion, Exxon $8.2 billion, Chevron $5.4 billion, and BP $2.7 billion… to name a few. So if you’re asking “why did they do all of this?” That’s why.

And what’s next? As Jamie Henn, director of Fossil Free Media, shared with Politico: “The next step is to see if we can turn this investigation into actual legislation that would hold the industry accountable.”

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Sources: “New internal Big Oil documents just dropped” By Emily Atkin and Arielle Samuelson for @heated.world ; “A Bit Closer to Holding Big Oil Accountable” by Bill McKibben for The Crucial Years; and The US Senate Report for this Hearing.