Earlier today, twenty-two House Democrats sent a letter to President Obama expressing their support for the Keystone XL pipeline project. The letter was announced in a press release from TransCanada. Both the letter and the press release predictably recycle discredited arguments for Keystone XL on energy security and jobs. What TransCanada didn’t mention is that … Read More
Author: Steve Kretzmann
Keystone XL Crime Scene Investigation
Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth, the Other 98% and DeSmogBlog have mapped the tangled web of corruption around the Keystone XL pipeline. Check it out and then click the image to send your letter demanding that President Obama reject the lobbyists and say no to Keystone XL.
Coalition Calls for End to $122 billion in Handouts to Fossil Fuels
(Washington, DC – October 5, 2011) Today leaders of 52 national and state organizations sent a letter to the members of the Super Congress (formally known as the Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction) demanding that the elimination of government handouts to the oil, coal and gas industries be a central part of the … Read More
Keystone XL Hearing and Demo in DC: Friday October 7th
The Keystone XL pipeline, if approved, will bring millions of barrels of dirty tar sands crude oil to the US gulf coast and act as a catalyst for the expansion of this source of oil. Without KXL, the industry will struggle to find new markets to support its growth. Last month, we exposed the fact … Read More
Report: Exporting Energy Security: Keystone XL Exposed
Keystone XL will not lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil, but rather transport Canadian oil to American refineries for export to overseas markets.
Fred Upton: Big Oil’s Superman in SuperCongress
Numerous recent polls reveal that the American people believe that Congress is more responsive to their campaign donors than their own constituents. In addition, Americans of all affiliations clearly favor ending oil industry handouts. The question is, whose side is Fred Upton on: the American people’s or Big Oil’s? Rep. Upton is Big Oil’s biggest … Read More
Oil Money and the “SuperCongress”
Eight of the twelve members of the newly-named Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction have voted in the last two years to allow oil companies to keep more than $4 billion annually in taxpayer subsidies in place. All six Republicans have consistently voted to preserve oil industry handouts. Oil industry lobbyists have made maintaining these handouts … Read More
Senators Opposing End of Oil Subsidies Received Five Times More in Big Oil Campaign Cash
Find out how much oil money your elected representatives take by visiting the Dirty Energy Money site. Washington, D.C.—U.S. Senators that blocked a vote on legislation to end taxpayer subsidies to oil companies have received five times more in campaign contributions from oil and gas interests than those who voted to begin debate, according to … Read More
Senate Finance Committee Awash in Campaign Cash from Big Oil
Media Contacts: Adam Smith, Public Campaign Action Fund, (202) 640-5593, asmith@publicampaign.org Steve Kretzmann, Oil Change International, (202) 497-1033, steve@priceofoil.org For Immediate Release May 12, 2011 Senate Finance Committee Awash in Campaign Cash from Big Oil Committee Republicans take 4 times more oil money than Democrats, on average As representatives of the biggest oil companies are … Read More
ConocoPhillips calls Democrats “Un-American”
Get ready for some fireworks this morning in the Senate. The latest spin coming from the oil industry is that Democrats and the more than 75% of Americans that support ending subsidies to Big Oil are somehow “un-American”. After yesterday’s Annual Meeting of Conoco Phillips the company put out a press release highlighting “concerns over … Read More