It wasn’t just Big Oil that misled the public for decades
citing an article in a coal industry trade publication from 1966 that proved that climate change was no secret to people in the coal industry either. “There is evidence that the amount of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is increasing rapidly as a result of the combustion of fossil fuels,” wrote a coal industry executive named James R. Garvey.
“Such changes in temperature will cause melting of the polar icecaps, which, in turn, would result in the inundation of many coastal cities, including New York and London,” Garvey continued. This is, of course, just the view of one coal industry executive, and there is still a lot to learn about exactly what other players in the coal industry understood about the risks of climate change 50 years ago.
But it’s already clear that in the early days of the climate wars, nobody was a bigger player than Big Coal. The industry had decades of experience undermining, subverting, and obfuscating science in their battles over air pollution laws, water pollution laws at mining sites, and safety regulations for deep miners .
In the early 1990s, when the information war over the climate began, Big Coal’s most aggressive front group was the Western Fuels Association, a group of coal-burning electric utilities and cooperatives. Western Fuels began ato undermine the science of climate change.
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