How a powerful US lobby group helps big oil to block climate action

…Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat and strident critic of big oil's public relations tactics, accused API of "lying on a massive industrial scale" about the climate crisis in order to stall legislation to combat global heating…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/19/big-oil-climate-crisis-lobby-group-api