Leaked Fossil Documents Reveal 50 Years of Suppressed Air Pollution Science – The Energy Mix

Leaked memos make it clear that Big Oil has known about the links between air pollution and fossil fuel combustion for at least 50 years—and, in a familiar pattern, has for decades been doing everything it can to bury the threat to its bottom line. Internal memos and reports from fossil heavy hitters like Esso dating from the mid-1960s reveal that 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,” writes The Guardian.

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