Chevron and the Sierra Club

After more than a year’s negotiation by Climate One, Chevron CEO Dave O’Reilly and Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope met for the first time ever at a June 2009 Climate One public conversation. There, O’Reilly made his most direct public statement to date on the validity of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) science and agreed with Pope on the need (if not on the pace and timing) to transition away from fossil fuels. Pope and O’Reilly also agreed to go to Washington D.C. together to lobby against coal handouts in the Waxman-Markey bill. Watch the video here.

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