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  How to buy a pipeline? Buy Congress.

  Lorne Stockman

  Nov05

  As thousands gather around the White House tomorrow to urge President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, let’s take a minute to look at some of the ways the project has garnered political support so far. Because in the end this is a political decision. A yes indicates support for Big Oil and the…
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• A Koch Keystone XL Connection?

  Steve Kretzmann

  Nov04

  Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) recently renewed his request that the House Committee on Energy and Commerce investigate the role of Koch Industries in the Keystone XL pipeline. Waxman, the ranking minority member of the committee, made his request in a letter to committee chairmen Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.). Waxman first asked for…
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  Big Oil Buys Democratic Support for Keystone XL

  Steve Kretzmann

  Oct19

  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…
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• Coalition Calls for End to $122 billion in Handouts to Fossil Fuels

  Steve Kretzmann

  Oct04

  (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…
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• Oil Money and the “SuperCongress”

  Steve Kretzmann

  Aug17

  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…
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• Senators Opposing End of Oil Subsidies Received Five Times More in Big Oil Campaign Cash

  Steve Kretzmann

  May17

  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…
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  ConocoPhillips calls Democrats “Un-American”

  Steve Kretzmann

  May12

  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…
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  Independent oil & gas producers don’t need subsidies any more than big oil does

  Lorne Stockman

  Apr29

  The Independent Petroleum Producers Association is currently in overdrive parading a commissioned study that makes a number of claims about its member’s value to the economy. According to the study, independent oil and gas producers drill most of the wells in the country, create millions of jobs and pay billions in taxes and royalties. Furthermore,…
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• Why We Need to Confront Dirty Energy Money

  Elizabeth Bast

  Apr15

  The current Congress is awash in Dirty Energy Money, and the fossil fuel industry is certainly getting its money’s worth these days. In the face of rising gas prices, the top 5 oil companies have reported nearly a trillion (yes, trillion) dollars in profits over the past ten years. Yet these same companies receive billions…
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  The New Dirty Energy Money Champions

  Andy Rowell

  Apr12

  Ever heard of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association? We didn’t know much about them either. But they have popped up on our radar as an organisation that is pouring millions into politics. So we started doing some digging. NRECA calls itself the national service organisations that represents the nation’s more than 900 private, not-for-profit,…
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