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Teapot Dome and the Supreme Court Case That Gave Congressional Subpoenas Teeth A 1920s oil-lease scandal, a stubborn Ohio banker and a 1927 Supreme Court ruling explain why Congress can force people to testify, and why that power matters again. The 1973 Oil Embargo and the Fuel Economy Rules It Produced How the gas lines of 1973 led Congress to write the first federal fuel economy standards in 1975, why they stalled for decades, and what that history says about today's car rules. What Exxon's Own Scientists Projected About Warming in the 1970s and 1980s Exxon's in-house scientists modeled global warming in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and a 2023 study found their projections largely accurate. What the company knew, and said. Why an 85-Mile Stretch of the Mississippi Became Known as Cancer Alley How the river towns between Baton Rouge and New Orleans filled with chemical plants, why a 2023 federal lawsuit over one of them was dropped, and what residents still want.