"Manchin's antics are solely for the benefit of a few obscenely wealthy companies selling polluting products that threaten the entire planet's well-being. "The fossil fuel lobby's grimy fingerprints are all over yet another congressional deadlock on meaningful climate action," said Su t. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), one of the largest beneficiaries of industry campaign contributions. In response to the figures, Jean Su, director of the energy justice program at the Center for Biological Diversity, told E&E that this flood of industry cash goes a long way in explaining the obstruction of lawmakers like Sen. The disclosures showed increases in spending by groups like the American Gas Association, the National Mining Association and the American Petroleum Institute - organizations that have been harshly critical of parts of the "Build Back Better Act," the Democrats’ budget reconciliation package that was initially targeted to be $3.5 trillion but will soon be pared back. While Democrats crafted their proposals like the Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), fees for oil and natural gas companies’ methane emissions, and new incentives to buy electric vehicles, the energy industry and its allies were doubling down on their efforts to stop or otherwise influence the policies, according to lobbying disclosures due last week that detailed activity between July and September.
That's the people's job."Ī review of campaign finance disclosures published by E&E News on Tuesday showed that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other extractive industries all increased their spending from July to September, a crucial period of negotiations in Congress as the Democrats tried to secure major climate provisions in President Joe Biden's signature 'Build Better Better' legislative agenda. "We can't allow corporate influence to drive public policy. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland with little or nothing to show in terms of new levels of ambition to reduce its planet-heating emissions, new reporting shows how the fossil fuel industry has ramped up its political spending over recent months in order to diminish any chance of real progress on the issue.
government is very much on the verge of showing up to next week's U.N.
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