Oil and Gas Lobbying

Clean energy drowned out in Washington by a Two Billion Dollar Juggernaut

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Open Secrets, Clean Energy, Green Energy, American Wind Energy Association, Oil and Gas Lobbying, Green News
Kevin Grandia

Red State bloggers are all in a tizzy over an Open Secrets article showing that the American Wind Energy Association spent over $5 million last year o...

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Three Of Every Four Oil And Gas Lobbyists Worked For Federal Government

Washington Post | Dan Eggen and Kimberly Kindy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mineral Management Serv, Revolving Door, Washington Post, Oil Lobby, Congress Revolving Door, Gulf Oil Spill, BP Gulf Oil Spill, Oil and Gas Lobbying, Oil-Lobbyist, Mms, Politics News

Three out of every four lobbyists who represent oil and gas companies previously worked in the federal government, a proportion that far exceeds the u...

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Marcus Baram

BP, Big Oil Slightly Increase Lobbying Spending In Wake Of Spill

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp Lobbying, Big Oil Lobbying, BP Oil Spill, Bp, Bp Lobbyists, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil and Gas Lobbying, Politics News

In the wake of the biggest oil spill in the nation's history and facing a government intent on tightening regulation of the oil and gas industry, BP a...

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Greenpeace Unmasks Koch Industries' Funding of Climate Denial Industry

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lord Christopher Monckton, Institute for Energy Research, Exxonmobil, Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, American Petroleum Institute, The David H. Koch Charitable Foundation, Clean Energy, Climate Denial Industry, Greenpeace, David Legates, Copenhagen Climate Summit, Tim Ball, Sallie Baliunas, Heritage Foundation, Climate Change, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), Climate Deniers, Koch Industries Inc, Willie Soon, Oil and Gas Lobbying, Global Warming, John Birch Society, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

Since 1997, Koch Industries and its PACs have given nearly $50 million to climate change-denying groups like Americans for Prosperity, known for its role in organizing the tea party movement.

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