Follow the money: Big oil funds attack ads blaming Senate Dems for high gas prices
Gas prices have trended downward since June 2022.
By Jesse Valentine - August 02, 2024Gas prices have trended downward since June 2022.
By Jesse Valentine - August 02, 2024Former President Donald Trump’s administration dismantled EPA regulations, postponed meaningful progress on emissions reduction and mainstreamed climate denial.
By Adrian Cole - November 17, 2022New York Republican Mike Lawler is pushing for more fossil fuel production in the face of climate change.
By Josh Israel - October 31, 2022ExxonMobil is one of several American oil companies reporting billions in profits in recent months while gas prices skyrocketed.
By Oliver Willis - October 28, 2022Oil and gas companies do not need to pass their tax burden on to New Hampshire consumers, contrary to a new ad’s claims.
By Josh Israel - September 30, 2022The American Action Network makes no mention of its fossil fuel donors in a barrage of attack ads against Democratic House incumbents.
By Josh Israel - July 27, 2022The Republican nominee has claimed high gas prices have nothing to do with ‘greedy oil executives.’
By Josh Israel - July 27, 2022The new allocation includes federal aid to cap 18 orphaned wells in the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania.
By Oliver Willis - May 26, 2022Dozens of Republicans wanted to end the House’s business for the day instead of taking votes on critical legislation.
By Emily Singer - March 09, 2022Every Republican senator voted against President Joe Biden’s plan to invest $555 billion in clean energy and combating climate change.
By Josh Israel - March 08, 2022Republicans in the Senate don’t seem fazed by a recent climate report the U.N. called a ‘code red for humanity.’
By Josh Israel - August 17, 2021The Federal Land Freedom Act would give states full control over public lands they don’t own.
By Josh Israel - August 03, 2021Many of the old wells and mines are located in rural communities that have been hard-hit by the pandemic.
By Associated Press - April 03, 2021Environmental groups hailed the moratorium as the kind of action needed to slow climate change.
By Associated Press - January 26, 2021Trump’s loss in the oil drilling case on Monday is the latest in a slew of legal defeats.
By Amy Lieu - December 08, 2020A provision of the 2017 tax law may make it difficult for Joe Biden to prevent oil drilling in the Alaska wildlife refuge.
By Amy Lieu - November 24, 2020Environmental groups are taking Trump to court over his plan to let oil companies drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
By Associated Press - August 25, 2020Trump praised his environmental record minutes after reports surfaced that he’s opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
By Emily Singer - August 17, 2020‘We won’t sit silently while the EPA allows this super pollutant to rapidly warm our atmosphere.’
By Associated Press - August 15, 2020The Sierra Club said that by ‘barreling forward with construction during a global pandemic,’ the pipeline company was ‘putting already vulnerable communities at even greater risk.’
By Associated Press - March 31, 2020Trump said oil price decline is ‘good for the consumer,’ despite the fact that the price drop is a tell of a slowing economy.
By Associated Press - March 10, 2020U.S. officials say it’s unclear whether U.S. troops can launch strikes against Syrian, Russian or other forces if they threaten the oil.
By Associated Press - November 09, 2019