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The House Oversight and Reform Committee is extending a new deadline for a group of five Big Oil board members to testify as part of its investigation of fossil fuel misinformation.
In letters sent Wednesday, the committee said board members from Exxon Mobil Corp., BP PLC, and Chevron Corp. declined to appear at a planned hearing on Feb. 8. Jane Holl Lute, a member of Shell’s board of directors, said she would be willing to testify but “declined to participate on that date after other invited board members refused to appear,” according to the committee.
The panel will reschedule the hearing for March 8, wrote full committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Environment Subcommittee Chair Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). The full committee will hold a separate hearing with climate science experts on the original Feb. 8 date.
“The Big Oil companies should consider the March hearing their last chance to cooperate,” Maloney said in a statement. “If their board members refuse to appear, they should expect further action from this Committee.”
The Oversight Committee first called the oil company board members to testify in another round of letters late last month. In addition to Lute, the other invitees are Alexander Karsner and Susan Avery of Exxon, Melody Meyer of BP, and Enrique Hernandez of Chevron.
Some of the companies and board members indicated that they are indeed willing to participate.
Brad Wine, counsel for Exxon’s Karsner, said that his client informed the committee that he will “cooperate with their investigation and will testify voluntarily but that he was unavailable to participate in a hearing on Feb. 8,” due to “family commitments.”
The hearings are part of a larger investigation into the industry’s past science denial and obstruction of climate policy, a probe that has been on the environmental community’s wishlist for years.
Top executives from all four companies testified before the committee in October, alongside officials from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute (E&E Daily, Oct. 29, 2021). Maloney subpoenaed all six organizations for documents a few days later.
This week’s letters asked the companies to turn over all relevant documents by the March 8 hearing, or face “further action by the Committee.”
The panel’s Democrats are looking to question board members on the companies’ various net-zero emissions pledges and whether they go far enough.
The companies pushed back on the idea that their board members are refusing to cooperate with the committee. Rather, they said it’s a scheduling issue.
The October hearing with chief executives was formally requested more than a month in advance, whereas board members were given less than three weeks after the initial round of letters from the committee on Jan. 20.
“Our chairman and CEO voluntarily appeared at an earlier hearing, and the committee was informed that Dr. Avery and Mr. Karsner would also appear voluntarily when both are available,” Exxon spokesman Casey Norton said in an email. “We have been in regular communication with the committee since last summer and have provided staff with hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, including board materials and internal communications.”
A BP spokesperson said of its board member: “we understand that Melody is working with the committee on a mutually agreeable time to testify.” A Shell spokesperson said the company “will continue to cooperate with the committee.”
A Chevron spokesperson did not return a request for comment. Lawyers for Avery and Meyer did not respond to requests for comment. A lawyer for Hernandez declined to comment.
Khanna said he hopes the eventual testimony will be revealing because the board members are involved in sustainability efforts at their respective companies.
Avery, for instance, is a climate scientist, while Karsner joined Exxon’s board last year as part of a bid by activist firm Engine No. 1 to overhaul the company’s climate strategy.
“Their answers will provide a behind the scenes look at the internal discussions occurring at these companies,” Khanna said in a statement. “If the members do not provide them voluntarily, all options are on the table.”
This story also appears in Climatewire and Energywire.
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Mr. Alexander A. Karsner c/o Alex Iftimie Morrison & Foerster
425 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94105
Dear Mr. Karsner: On January 20, 2022, we invited you to testify before the Oversight Committee at a February 8 hearing to examine whether oil and gas companies’ climate pledges are adequate to reduce emissions and avert a looming climate disaster. You declined to participate on the date requested. The Committee plans to move forward with our hearing on February 8, to learn the truth about the fossil fuel industry’s climate pledges. We will hear from witnesses who have studied these pledges and will explain whether they will truly reduce global warming—or instead are simply another effort by oil and gas companies to deceive the public and “greenwash” the industry’s destructive impact on our planet. In light of your role on the board of directors of Exxon, a major source of carbon emissions, the Committee continues to require your testimony on this topic. As we previously explained, boards of directors of fossil fuel companies have a key role to play in holding management accountable for meaningful actions to reduce emissions.
As an accommodation to you, we plan to divide this hearing into two panels on different
dates, and we will reschedule your testimony for March 8, 2022. This will be your last
opportunity to appear voluntarily before the Committee. Please confirm by February 7 that you
will comply with this request.
Because the Committee is postponing your testimony for four weeks, we expect that
Exxon will complete production of all records responsive to our November 2, 2021, subpoena in
advance of your testimony. This subpoena was issued four months ago, and the remaining
documents are long overdue.
Among other documents, Exxon must produce in full and without redaction all
responsive board materials, including those previously placed inside a restrictive electronic
reading room without the Committee’s consent. Failure to produce these documents in advance
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Jane Holl Lute (born 1956) is an American diplomat and security analyst currently serving as the UN special envoy on the Cyprus dispute. [1][2] She served as the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009 through 2013, after having been confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 3, 2009.[3] Previously, Lute was the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support.[4] Before that she was Assistant Secretary-General for Mission Support in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations since August 2003.[5] She is the President and CEO of the Arlington-based Council on CyberSecurity and Senior Advisor of Measure, a Drone as a Service company.[6][7] On January 5, 2014, she was appointed Special Adviser for Relocation of Camp Hurriya Residents Outside of Iraq by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.[8] On February 8, 2016, she was appointed Special Coordinator on Improving the United Nations Response to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.[9]
Biography
Lute graduated from Montclair State University in 1978 and received her commission as a U.S. Army second lieutenant through Seton Hall University's ROTC program. In addition, she earned an M.A. from the University of Southern California in 1985, a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University in 1989, and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University in 2000. She is a member of the Virginia Bar.
From 1991 to 1994, she served as director of European Affairs in the National Security Council staff at the White House. Between 1994 and 1999, Lute headed up the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict and was a senior public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars.
Prior to joining the UN Secretariat, Lute served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the United Nations Foundation and the Better World Fund, which is established to administer Ted Turner's $1 billion contribution to support the goals of the United Nations. Before that, she served as Executive Director of the Association of the United States Army's project on the role of American Military Power in 2000.
On January 23, 2009, President Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Jane Holl Lute as Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security.[10] She was confirmed April 3.[3] She left the department on April 9, 2013.[11] The Undersecretary for National Protection and Programs Directorate Rand Beers was named as her acting replacement.[12]
Since leaving the Obama administration, Lute has joined as member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council and the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Cyber Security.[13][14] She is also part of the Atlantic Council's Task Force on a Transatlantic Digital Agenda, a member of the board of directors of the Center for Internet Security, and a member of the board of directors at the George Washington University's Center for Cyber and Homeland Security.[15][16] Lute also served as a Founding Partner of Cambridge Global Advisors (CGA), a strategic consulting firm focused on homeland security, national security and cyber security issues.[17]
Lute is married to Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute, who was appointed in 2007 as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, and has served as the United States Permanent Representative to NATO from September 3, 2013 to January 20, 2017.[18]
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- ^ "UN urges rivals in Cyprus to engage with UN on peace talks". National Post. July 26, 2018. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
- ^ "Nicosia has given the green light for Jane Holl Lute's appointment by the UNSG". In-Cyprus.com. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
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- ^ "Secretary-General Appoints Jane Holl Lute of United States as Assistant Secretary-General for peace building support" (Press release). United Nations. August 7, 2008.
- ^ "Secretary-General appoints Jane Holl Lute of United States as Assistant Secretary-General for peacekeeping operations" (Press release). United Nations. June 11, 2003. Retrieved April 22, 2009.
- ^ http://www.counciloncybersecurity.org/about-us/leadership
- ^ "About Measure - a 32 Advisors Company". Measure. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
- ^ "Secretary-General Appoints Jane Holl Lute of United States as Special Adviser for Relocation of Camp Hurriya Residents Outside of Iraq". Press release. United Nations. January 5, 2014.
- ^ "Secretary-General Appoints Jane Holl Lute of United States as Special Coordinator on Improving United Nations Response to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse". Press release. United Nations. January 5, 2014.
- ^ "Jane Holl Lute to Be Nominated as Homeland Security Deputy Secretary" (Press release). United States Department of Homeland Security. January 23, 2009. Retrieved April 22, 2009.
- ^ "Statement by Secretary Napolitano on the Departure of Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute" (Press release). United States Department of Homeland Security. April 9, 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
- ^ "Rand Beers Selected As Acting DHS Deputy Secretary" (Press release). HS Today. May 2, 2013.
- ^ "Homeland Security Advisory Council Members | Homeland Security". www.dhs.gov. January 14, 2014. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
- ^ "Global Agenda Council on Cyber Security". World Economic Forum. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
- ^ Agenda, Atlantic Council’s Task Force on Advancing a Transatlantic Digital (April 6, 2016). "Building a Transatlantic Digital Marketplace: Twenty Steps Toward 2020". Atlantic Council. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
- ^ "Board of Directors | Center for Cyber & Homeland Security | The George Washington University". cchs.gwu.edu. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
- ^ "About CGA". Cambridge Global. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
- ^ Press statement from the White House, Office of the Press Secretary, May 23, 2013
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