Exxon, Chevron CEOs Excoriated in 7-Hour D.C. Climate Hearing

The first ever U.S. congressional dressing down of oil bosses for alleged climate-change subterfuge devolved into a fractious spat over environmental racism, electric-car subsidies and fat pay packages.

The bosses of Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., along with executives from Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc, were urged to resign on Thursday by progressive Democrats during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing. They also were pressured to abandon the leading oil-industry trade group and cut off funds to groups sowing doubts about climate science.

In the culmination of the seven-hour session, U.S. Representative ...