Congressmen call for investigation into Shell on climate change

Fuel Fix: Political pressure continues to build around investigating oil companies’ conflicting positions on climate change.

Earlier this week three Democratic Congressmen, Rep. Ted Lieu, of California, Rep. Matt Cartwright, of Pennsylvania, and Rep. Peter Welch, of Vermont, sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, calling for an investigation into Shell, the European oil giant which maintains its U.S. headquarters in Houston.

The congressmen cited recent stories by The Los Angeles Times and Inside Climate News about how in 1989 Shell announced it was redesigning an oil platform in the North Sea to account for rising sea levels and worsening storms connected to climate change.

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