
Part 3 premieres Tuesday, May 3 at 10 p.m.
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Part two of a three-part series tracing decades of casting doubt on the science, missed opportunities and the ongoing attempts to hold Big Oil to account. on KPBS TV: The fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change. Part 2 premieres Tuesday, April 26 at 10 p.m. Part one of a three-part series tracing decades of casting doubt on the science, missed opportunities and the ongoing attempts to hold Big Oil to account.


Part 1 premieres Tuesday, April 19 at 10 p.m. It is an urgent and essential documentary series to help understand how we got here. It’s cost this country, and it cost the world.”Īs the world's leading climate scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issue new warnings about the dangers of climate change, and as the war on Ukraine highlights the world's dependence on fossil fuels and Russia’s status as a top oil exporter, THE POWER OF BIG OIL examines the ongoing efforts to hold the industry accountable. And today we would have been so much further ahead than we are. “It would have put the United States and the world on a whole different track. senator and secretary of defense Chuck Hagel. “What we now know about some of these large oil companies’ positions, and what they did know and they didn't tell us or they didn't recognize, they lied. “We have continued to maintain a position that has evolved with science and is today consistent with the science,” said Darren Woods, chair and CEO of ExxonMobil, in an October 2021 congressional hearing.

And I just had had enough.”ĮxxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies defended their records. “There was obviously no appetite for any mention of climate change. “The industry is a great lobbyist,” says former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christine Todd Whitman. "Truth Has Nothing to Do With Who Wins the Argument" | The Power of Big Oil | FRONTLINE
