campaign contributions
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New York State legislators get $1.3 million from gas industry
New York State is considering whether and how to move forward with hydrofracking in the state, and by TOTAL COINCIDENCE the natural gas industry has spent $1.3 million -- a fortune in state-level campaign finance -- in donations to the New York legislators who will decide its fate.
According to an analysis by Common Cause New York, most of the money went to candidates for state legislature. Republicans received more than twice as much as Democrats. -
Why the hell does Michele Bachmann want to drill for oil in the Everglades?
Michele Bachman wants to drill for oil "whether that is in the Everglades or whether that is in the Eastern Gulf region or whether that is in North Dakota." Even Republicans think this is kind of nuts, because even Republicans are willing to agree that the Everglades has some nice stuff that it'd be darn shame to ruin forever. But for Bachmann, it's a "wonderful treasure trove of energy that God has given us in this country."
If you're thinking, oil in the Gulf … ok; oil in North Dakota … sure, I read that New Yorker article; but … is there even oil the Everglades?? … well, we're with you. A federally employed geologist told a local Florida TV station that "there is no known evidence that there is a significant hydrocarbon deposit beneath the Everglades."
But the Associated Press reports that there is one tract of privately owned land where oil was found in 1943. -
Big Oil's Golden Backup Plan
One of the few bright spots for environmentalists and progressives over the last year was this week’s successful defeat of Proposition 23 in California. As the organizer Saul Alinsky famously observed, power flows from both people and money. Unlike every other energy battle this year, for Prop 23, activists had both. It hasn’t been […]
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BP, other European polluters, pump money into Senate campaigns
An analysis by Climate Action Network Europe found that BP and other big polluting European companies are helping fund Senate climate zombies.
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Big Business pays U.S. Chamber to do its dirty work
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has always been a bully for Big Business. But now it's on the attack with secret money.
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Groups with ties to Karl Rove break fundraising goals, push money to party of climate zombies
Money from secret donors is pouring into conservative groups and they're planning to use it to put out even more attack ads in the weeks ahead.
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Big Oil money pouring back into California to boost Prop 23
The flow of out-of-state oil money into California to block the state's cutting edge greenhouse-gas law keeps getting stronger.
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Right-wingers jump back into politics, throw millions into Republican campaigns
Tea partiers get all the attention, but the big money in Republican campaigns is coming from old-line right-wingers who are about as establishment as you can get. Plus, what future generations will hate us for and a flight that lasts five years.
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The GOP has forgiven Joe Barton, but here are six reasons not to forget him
Rep. Joe BartonRep. Joe Barton’s latest apology paid off big-time. Wednesday, the Texas Republican groveled before House GOP leaders behind closed doors, telling them that his impassioned act of contrition to BP CEO Tony Hayward last week was a mistake. All was forgiven and Sorry Joe was allowed to keep his post as lead Republican […]