NYT Climate Event Features Occidental Petroleum CEO, Talking About "Offsets", Producing More Oil & Gas

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1. Oh, and it gets better - the Times also hosted Kevin Roberts from the Heritage Foundation

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The Times’ Climate Forward event featured a series of panelists from global political, corporate, and activism sectors participating with Times journalists in what the company called “live journalism,” with panelists answering real-time questions from Times reporters about climate change tradeoffs, bottlenecks and solutions. Earlier in the day, audience members heard from Zaidi, renowned conservationist Jane Goodall, Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus and Roy Cooper, governor of North Carolina, among others.

Tension in the audience was palpable during Gelles’ interview with Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, about Project 2025. Gelles pressed Roberts for answers about the Heritage Foundation’s plans to curb pollution and keep America’s water and air clean, which Roberts asserted was a goal of the project. The U.S. would stay on its current track of producing “the cleanest air and water” if Heritage policies were implemented, Roberts claimed, offering no explanation as to how the federal government could achieve those standards with a crippled Clean Air Act and an Environmental Protection Agency stripped of much of its authority, as Project 2025 calls for, which Gelles pointed out.

At many points throughout the interview, Gelles asked Roberts to answer his questions more directly. He concluded noting that Roberts had not answered a question about whether there was any level of planetary warming that the Heritage Foundation would object to.

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26092024/activists-disrupt-occidental-petroleum-interview-at-new-york-times-climate-event/