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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/18/oil-industry-fossil-fuels-air-pollution-documents>
"The oil industry knew at least 50 years ago that air pollution from burning
fossil fuels posed serious risks to human health, only to spend decades
aggressively lobbying against clean air regulations, a trove of internal
documents seen by the Guardian reveal.
The documents, which include internal memos and reports, show the industry was
long aware that it created large amounts of air pollution, that pollutants
could lodge deep in the lungs and be “real villains in health effects”, and
even that its own workers may be experiencing birth defects among their
children.
But these concerns did little to stop oil and gas companies, and their proxies,
spreading doubt about the growing body of science linking the burning of fossil
fuels to an array of health problems that kill millions of people around the
world each year. Echoing the fossil-fuel industry’s history of undermining of
climate science, oil and gas interests released a torrent of material aimed at
raising uncertainty over the harm caused by air pollution and used this to
deter US lawmakers from placing further limits on pollutants."
Via Glyn Moody, who wrote "time to sue them into the ground (sic)"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
